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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.

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.

"New York State Board of Regents is considering eliminating a variety of mandates-including the teaching of library and information skills in the state's middle schools. "

"The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development"

Online brainstorming can be done using anything from email to chat meeting rooms, and even Twitter. But why keep it that simple when you have a galaxy of brainstorming software apps out there.

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.

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).

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.

NASN's core purpose is to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal learning in students.

Set up a discussion board for any topic.

A plugin (an extra bunch of programs) that can make your blog a social network site. With this plugin you can add multiple blogs, forums, activity streams, etc.to your class blog.