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Google Wave (currently in preview) is a new online collaboration tool created by Google. It provides the opportunity for asynchronous and synchronous communication among users. Waves allow participants to share resources, images, videos, documents, etc in order to discuss, collaborate, etc. It's a wonderful tool and my guess is that it will only become more powerful when it is open to all and a little more polished. Even in it's current state, it's quite robiust.

"More Tools for Digital Storytellers by Ozge Karaoglu"

Create, plan and share recipes, menus, grocery lists and more. Browse, create, and share delicious recipes. Add them to your personal Recipe Box. Plan dinners and meals with your weekly recipe planner and we'll automatically generate your shopping list.

With songr, you can find music others are listening to in real time. Being bored has never been more interesting.

Kim's delicious bookmarks. Great Web 2.0 links (and a whole lot more!)

Visit the world's biggest site for young authors; read a story, write your own enter our contests! On the web since 1995 with stories, poems, plays, reviews, and more!

A web site for football coaches, historians, and enthusiasts who would like to learn more about football's first offense- the Single Wing. Oddly enough, today's "Wild Cat" set is very similar to the Single Wing offense.

Google Voice is another Google product currently in preview. Google Voice might just revolutionize phone and voice mail. With google voice, you get a phone number that you could essentially use as your only phone number in the (near) future. Essentially, you can forward calls from the google voice number to any number you like and even change what number it is forwarded to based on the time. In other words, you can forward calls during the day to your work phone, in the afternoon to your cell phone, and in the evening to your home phone. You can even have the phone ring on all these numbers at all times if you like. Furthermore, you can set different numbers to ring to a different phone (i.e. friends always go to cell phone, work contacts always go to the work phone, etc.). As if that weren't enough...you can even set custom outgoing messages based on who (or what group) is calling. And there's more!!! Voicemails that come in are transcribed as text and can be delivered via email or sms.

Gliffy allows students to draw and share diagrams online. You get all of your basic functionality that you would in an offline diagram application but with a few extra bonuses like working online collaboratively and dynamic publishing of diagrams. Create flow charts, floor plans, technical diagrams, and more.

Online conversions for different kind of metrics such as length, weight, temperature, area, volume, speed, frequency, light, cooking, currency. With pictures to allow more easy access the menu items and some explanations.

Read, write and network free literature on the internet * featuring the latest in digital flipbook technology providing you a unique online reading experience * have fun!

Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? You spend more time clicking "Next" and waiting than actually reading anything. PageZipper is a free bookmarklet which automatically merges all the "Next" pages into one, so you can skip directly to the stuff you want.

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

I have used this before and it is great. I posted it for a while as the "wordle of the day" on our web site.

The Tree of Life Web Project is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12

This is a great resource for anyone wanting to learn more about using etextbooks or digital textbooks