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Visual bookmarking and allows the addition of various other tools - nice for the classroom

Called a "personal internet desktop", Symbaloo is a way to graphically show your bookmarks. Del.icio.us bookmarks can be linked with this service - I see a lot of good uses, especially for lower grades if this were set as the home page of an Internet browser.

Cloud collection of all photos from across online platforms - intsagram, flickr, and picasa - as well as your local computer. Timeline display, sharable from site as well as to Facebook and Twitter. Free

H/T to Kurt Gosdeck for pointing this out.

HT to Adam Reinhard, one of my students in an online class I'm teaching for MLC, for finding this one! I'm definitely going to make use of this...

Has anyone ever used something like this in his classroom?  I have students that greatly enjoy having some music playing in the background (I limit it to classical piano, mostly).  Anyone know of a study that demonstrates if this helps students learn?

I've used Simply Noise in my classroom of 5th graders and I have had mixed results. Some kids really like it and some hate it. I tend to prefer the brown noise as opposed to white or pink noise. I think I might make less of a deal of it with my next class next year and just use it for a little longer period of time to get a better read on its effectiveness. I took my students to on a field trip to Environmental Systems Inc in Brookfield, WI and they use brown noise generators throughout their office/cubicle area to mask ambient noise. I found it very soothing. They used to have it timed to go off at 4pm and they found that their employees subconsciously sensed it was time to leave for the day. Not wanting to encourage them to leave early, they decided to gradually bring the volume of the noise down over the course of 30 minutes and that took care of their issue. Not necessarily applicable to what you were asking about, but kind of interesting.

I can't believe that Google is shutting this down!  Hopefully some of these alternative RSS readers will be able to take its place.  Any suggestions or recommendations from the WELSTech crowd?

Another possibility to replace Google Reader, and IFTTT is just plain fun.

Well, I guess we did not have to wait long. Seems to have a lot of the features that I use in Springpad webapp, and is connected with Drive. I look forward to test driving it on my Nexus 7, and in Chrome in the weeks ahead.

A Google version of Evernote looks like it is on the way. I'm excited, since I already live in Google Apps during the day, I would love having all of my notes in Apps too. Currently using Scratchpad (A Chrome Extention) which ties into Drive, but this looks more feature rich.

Sallie, I don't remember if this tool showed up in one of your classes, or if it was in another, but it is a very handy tool.

Yes, that was a tool I recommended in the web design class, but i wasn't aware there was a mobile app. Thanks!