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Google Docs will store documents for access to groups, and also allows students who may not be able to afford nice word processors and spreadsheet creators to use the same tools as everyone else. This would be a great tool for teachers trying to incorporate a e-community into their classroom and would be able to level the playing field for disadvantaged students.

Google Earth is a program that allows people to visually see any place on Earth in a matter of seconds. You can view satellite images, maps, different terrains, and 3D buildings. This can help students visualize different shapes that might be new to them like pyramids.

Ask.com is a web search engine. While it does similar things as does Google, it allows people to pose questions and searches for answers to those questions. In this respect, it is more multi-dimensional than Google.

This site allows you to view, download, and post lessons related to using Google Earth in the classroom.

This is a portal (sort of Google search) to educational wikis. Good resources for teachers and students.

Developed in Google wikispaces, this website provides assisted technology for teachers to help students with disabilites. Tools included: graphic organizers, multimedia and digital story telling, study skills tools, literacy tools, and math tools.

This site can be used to organize your books. There is access to Amazon books, ratings and sales ranks. You can check books' availability in over 300 libraries in 11 different countries, check out what's in your friends' bookshelves and view books previewed through Google Books. You can embed your bookshelf on your blog.

BookJetty is a social utility that connects you with your friends' bookshelves and checks books' availability in the libraries. As a teacher this would be beneficial to share knowledge with other teachers. Also, being able to check availability of a book at one site would save time.