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"It's a drill-the-skills sort of site with a twist: students practice math and spelling skills by competing with other players that can be anywhere in the world. So, in essence, you also have the potential for some social studies." (Source: Laura Smith's Blog)

Glogster.com/edu has tools, services and security to make Glogster even more useful to classroom teachers.

"My Fellow Americans" Voicethread challenge for President Obama.

Secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world. Group conversations around images, documents, and videos Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload) Can be used to put "instruction" online.

"Watch YouTube videos with friends in real-time!"

Teachers can create an online community for their students. "Share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts. Post discussions, deadlines, homework. Instrantly create surveys for students. Keep parents informed of daily projects." "Not only will twiducate.com give your students the web 2.0 skills they need, but also expand their reading, writing, thoughts and ideas beyond the classroom setting."

Blerp allows you to start discussions right on top of your favorite websites. Unlike typical web comments, you are in full control. You can post on any webpage you choose, regardless of whether they permit user feedback. In other words, Blerp transforms the entire Web into one giant forum where everyone can participate. Useful for annotating websites, designing online instruction, virtual tours, and Internet scavenger hunts.

FREE online social bookmarking community made exclusively for K-12 educators.

It is a free service that allows you to visually capture any part of a web page. As you collect items that you captured, you organize them in boxes. You can then share these items or boxes with friends, colleagues, ... the world. The result is: efficient and visual collaboration around content. We call it: "Content Networking".

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.

Where Teachers And Students Find Each Other "...simple idea using the Web to connect those who have something to teach with those that want to learn."

An Ajax web application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too.