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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.

Diigo is the next generation of social bookmarking. In addition to simply bookmarking the page, you can include a snapshot (screenshot to include in the bookmark view),. You can also highlight information on the web page for inclusion in the bookmark (and also to be noted when someone visits the site from your diigo page. Another neat feature is that you can add sticky notes to the page. Again, these will be viewable by people visiting the page from your bookmark page. There are other features. I suggest visiting the page and taking the 'video tour' as you will love what diigo has to offer!

KATE, the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education, collects the most innovative and successful technology practices in K-12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of Kentucky -- the United States -- and the world.

ToonDoo is a very user friendly web based application that allows you to create cartoon strips and even cartoon books. The site is designed to encourage participants to create new strips, share their work, and discuss cartooning. What a great way to get students involved in the writing / digital story telling process. The Toon Creator is full of backgrounds, character, props, and other useful tools to aid in creating your masterpieces. I would say that the site is certainly appropriate and easy enough to use for elementary students but is entirely appropriate for older students as well. What a find :)

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!\n \nFREE for commercial and non-commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads!

MyStickies lets you save the web for later! Don't have time to read a full Web page and make notes? Add a sticky! Want to take notes about a particular Web page? MyStickes are like sticky notes for the Web. Once you've registered (free), you can add sticky notes wherever you like. When you come back to a page, the sticky will be there.

The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue. This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school.

The complete web whiteboard. Just start skrbl, give out your URL and instantly share online. Use skrbl to collaborate with others or, keep it your own private web space. Write notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures, share files... Everyone sees the same screen, everybody stays on the same page.

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.

a real time, live text collaboration tool. You invite others to join you (via email) and whatever they type will show up on the document (in real time) in another color. You can import a document into Type With Me, and edit it there in the space, live. You can save your document, export it, and even play it back (as if it were a movie) using a feature on the site called "timeline". There is also a chat area, so that you can have sidebar conversations with the people sharing your workspace that you might not want to appear in the document.

" printable version | email a friend Taming the Wild Wiki"

The Flash Card Exchange is a web space where you can create your own flash cards in any language and share them with the Internet Community.

I just went on this website this morning and joined, and now I see your post! Great minds think alike:) Shennen

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. One of the things that I really like about Hot Potatoes is it's seemless integration with certain Learning Management Systems. I use Moodle quite a bit, and you can include a Hot Potatoes activity right in the Moodle course.

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).

The Edusim application is a slimmed down version of the core Open Cobalt Metaverse Project. Edusim is a 3D multi-user virtual world platform and authoring toolkit intended for your classroom interactive whiteboard, but equally powerful on the students laptop or desktop computers. Cobalt - Edusim has been tested and works on the Smartboard, Activeboard, Interwriter, Polyvision, Mimio, eBeam, and even the Wiimote Whiteboard. Edusim is extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning session.

"Wave Hello to Google Wave - 10 Uses of Google Wave in the Classroom"

10 uses for google wave in the classroom

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!

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!

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.

30 Boxes is an online calendar that works great for students due to its simplicity and sharing options. It features RSS subscription to automatically populate the calendar with feed items. Users can even access their calendars on the go.