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"What Do Educational Innovators Really Do? Here's Twelve Examples"

This site allows you to generate a help URL so friends and family can send you instant screen recordings to help troubleshoot computer issues. Share the e-mail with those who share computer issues with you. No software or download required....Simply click, record, and submit. An e-mail is sent to you with a link to a page where you can go and view the flash recording of the screencast. URL expires in 7 days from time or recording, but screencasts can be downloaded in mp4 format. 5 minute time limit. Easy enough to use with students....save screencasts for posting on your website. Very quick and easy to learn and use!

"Spend a little time learning Skype and you'll soon discover it's much more than a one-trick pony. Sure, Skype's bread and butter is still its ability to let users make phone calls using their broadband connection, but there's so much more you can do with this versatile app."

This is a collaborative text synchronized as you type. This means that others with whom you are sharing the page can see what you are writing as you write it.

"The MyStocks page is the one-stop place where you can trade stocks with virtual money. The Global Stock Game (GSG) is the world's most realistic stock market simulation, where you can have fun and learn the stock market at no cost. Yes, it is 100% FREE. In addition, it's is easy enough to use even if you know little or nothing about the stock market. Even seasoned investors use this Web site to test their investing strategies before placing real orders in the stock market. "

"Find exactly what you're looking for, only faster. yolink's FREE browser add-on tool takes search to the next level. By scanning web pages, search results, e-books and more, yolink brings you just the information you need in only seconds. Sorry Control+F. Your days are numbered. " Scans and organizes web searches, integrates with #GoogleDocs #EasyBib #Diigo

"The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently eight tools - you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks: * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides * PowerPoint AutoTweet * PowerPoint Twitter voting - bar charts and pie chart * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Mood meter * PowerPoint Crowd meter * PowerPoint Zoom text * PowerPoint Twitter update bar"

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

Home page of the George Washington University Online High School.

KidderLit is a fun way to discover new books and authors. Every morning, while sensible people are sleeping, the folks at KidderLit and its sister site TwitrLit are hard at work, combing through the stacks of the local library. Why? So that when you wake up and rush to your computer, there will be a new literary teaser waiting for you. Every morning we'll post the first line of a young adult or children's book here at KidderLit.com. The trick is that we don't tell you what the book is or who the author is. To find out, you have to click the link to be taken to the book's page on Amazon.

This is a kid Twitter thing!

"Read blog posts about iPad See how iPads can be used for project based learning Read Classroom Dos and Don'ts Download Apple's 154 page iPad manual View Apple's iPad Guided Tour videos Access bookmarked sites that feature lists of apps for iPad"

Drag and Drop the markkit yellow highlighter into your browswer toolbar and you can highlight text in any web page.

Wridea is an online idea-management service and a collection of brainstorming tools. You store, manage, organize, and share your ideas to improve them. You use the Web interface, or you write an email to your Wridea address to keep your ideas organized. You have pages and categories that let you improve your ideas easily and collaboratively.

WikiDot is a wiki builder you can use to share content and documents and collaborate with your students, colleagues, and friends. You can create pages, forums, and separate wikis for groups or students; discuss topics; and upload files, documents, notes, and images and share them with others.

Through the My High School Journalism feature students can upload their own news content, including articles, podcasts, videos, and photos to the page. Each week throughout the school year, submissions are rated by journalism experts, and the top student reporters receive awards for their news coverage.

"Puppet Animation is an innovative application that lets you create an animation using the image of your choice. You just need to prepare one image. No need to prepare many time lapse animation pages! The application has a simple user interface and there are no difficult controls like usual animation softwares."

"This site will be both a support site for my presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and it also includes links to other iPad information pages. I hope you find it useful! You will find a Google form below to submit your own resource to be added to the site. Thanks for sharing!"

This is the start page for Google+ Hangout

GlobalPost is embarking on a bold journey to redefine international news for the digital age. To get there, we are relying on the enduring values of great journalism: integrity, accuracy, independence and powerful storytelling. GlobalPost follows no political line. We encourage our correspondents to write with a strong voice and to work hard to unearth facts. But we leave opinion on the opinion pages.

This flipchart helps students explore working on commission. Using 5 case studies they can explore straight commission, salary plus commission and draw against commission. They will also learn about vocabulary that includes: salary, commission, net pay, gross pay, bonus, draw, base and wages. This flipchart allows student to interactively explore types of jobs that are commission-based as well as the the pros and cons of commission-based employment. Student will need to understand simple mathematics including addition, subtraction, multiplying, and percentages. Some actions are embedded in the flipchart like hide/show, page notes, show calculator and others.