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A blog with many experiences, sites and games for Educational use, mainly for Spanish Teachers, however can be used for ESL teachers as well.

"iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!"

This series of video tutorials demonstrates how to use an Interactive whiteboard

This is a new page of the Directory showing SOCIAL tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classrooms. (The rest of the Directory also provides useful tools)

It is our dream to make Symbaloo the easiest starting point on the Internet. It's that simple; you could have thought of it yourself! Symbaloo is an ancient Greek verb meaning 'gathering' 'assembling'. It perfectly reflects the mission of the company. Symbaloo is an idea of Tim Has and has the mission to make the web more accessible. It was founded together with Koen Dantuma and Robert Broeders early 2007. Since June 2007 Symbaloo is available in The Netherlands, Spain, France, the UK and the US in beta.

I've been using symbaloo and in particular edu.symbaloo.com to share a many types of web based toolsand resources with my students. Truly a great and useful tool.

Create and share a comic using any combination of your own drawings, photos and ready-to-use artwork. Can't draw? Not a problem. Simply choose from our library of backgrounds, characters and speech balloons, add your own text or captions… and you're done!

Google Earth is a fantastic, FREE, tool for teaching and learning. There are many, many different ways of using it. It's almost as if the whole world is a

Using wikis in education

This presentation explores a range of ideas that teachers could use to make a real-world task richer and more meaningful for their students. Using a large public art event as the focus, it looks at a number of ideas for enriching student learning with technology… ideas that could be modified and applied to nearly any learning context.

After the Deadline is a free tool for checking your spelling and grammar while writing on the web. You can use After the Deadline as a stand alone tool at Polish My Writing where you can check your text for  errors before posting it to the web in a blog post or comment. But the real utility of After the Deadline is found in the Firefox and Chrome extensions they produce. Install the Firefox or Chrome extension to have After the Deadline check your writing and make correction suggestions before you publish to the web.  If you use WordPress to self-host your blog or your students' blogs, you may be interested in the After the Deadline WordPress plug-in. If you're an Open Office user, After the Deadline has an extension for you too.  Applications for Education If you have students writing on the web, After the Deadline could help them make their writings better before they hit "publish" on their next blog post or comment.

Grapholite is an easy-to-use and still comprehensive online and desktop solution for designing professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, Venn charts, database structures, web-site structures, etc. that can be used online and offline, in and out of browser; created diagrams can be stored locally and on the server.

Big Marker is a new free service for conducting online conferences. I actually learned about Big Marker last weekend from a post by Larry Ferlazzo, but didn't get a chance to try it until this evening. What I discovered is that Big Marker looks like a great option for conducting online tutoring sessions, brainstorming sessions, and other online presentations.  Big Marker allows you to create your choice of a private or a public online meeting room. If you make your room public anyone can join. If you make your room private you have to give participants a password to enter the room.  Once in your Big Marker conference room you can share screens, chat via text, chat via audio, or turn on your webcam so that people can see and hear you. Your Big Marker conference room comes with a white board that you and your participants can write and draw on. As the creator of a Big Marker conference you can control who can and cannot be heard or seen in the live audio and video chats.  Applications for Education Big Marker could be a great tool for conducting online tutoring sessions and lessons. Students working on collaborative projects could use Big Marker to brainstorm and plan for completion of their projects. As a professional development resource Big Marker could be useful for facilitating workshops online.

Scriffon is a simple service for writing and publishing online. Scriffon isn't a blogging platform, it's a writing platform. That means that you cannot edit the layout or navigation on the page on which your writing is published. Each writing that you publish is given it's own url. You can go back and edit your writing even after it has been published. If like, you can use multiple pen names under your Scriffon account name too.  Applications for Education Scriffon could be a good way for students to anonymously post their writings online and get feedback from others. For teachers or students who are reluctant to put their names on the web, using a pen name is a good way to publish without putting your real name online.

True tech integrators know the digital projector can be used for much more than projecting. Here is a sampling of some creative ways to use your projector in any curriculum.

AllPlay Web is an amazing, innovative solution that allows you to create a professional, fully-automated and entertaining game show experience within your webinar. Simply create your game show from our template creator and then invite attendees using our invite wizard. During your webinar, you host the game on your computer while each attendee engages in the game using their own on-screen keypad.

Viewpoint is an audio and video repository that allows you to record your audio/video online using your microphone or webcam, or upload existing media. These media items can then be linked from other sites or embedded inside your own web pages. Please note that this product has been developed for educational purposes only; these videos are not for commercial use.

Useful tips on how to use songs in class in different ways

"Luckily there are many sites that now provide audio files under a creative commons licence. You can use these freely, as long as you attribute the original source. Sometimes you can even licence them to use commercially if you wish."

"A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization, lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively, and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content."