KGU computer labs have the mice set up for this, so students might benefit from this

Neat website for online presentations (combine video and powerpoint)

Huge list of bibs by topic

Let's you go from a website to see websites that have the same content.

The first tool listed lets you also put in text and get a percentage count

Just spellchecking, but quite nice

Very interesting site for various checking of assignments

3 interesting tips for using Audacity

Apparently works on blogger

Allows you to mark up a web page and either save the image on your desktop or upload to a free website. Will use it to note problems with student blogs

Website for linking up researchers in Japan, done by NII (formerly NACSIS)

Will try this with my seminar/sotsuron students

The wikipedia mind map is the most intriguing

article about collaboration features and further integration with Word. Not clear what is beta and what is currently available.

describes efforts by Grou.ps and Grouply to move into Ning territory. As an aside, I've banned Grouply from kuma-i and the PALE list because it requires full access to a participants Yahoo account

Article about advances in gmail and google calendar integration. Potential for reminding students of assignments

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus has launched an innovative new tool called VocabGrabber (http://vocabgrabber.com) that helps teachers and students target the key vocabulary from a text within seconds. Powered by the award-winning Visual Thesaurus software, VocabGrabber intelligently extracts words from any document and demonstrates how those words are used in context. It's a boon for language arts teachers, students of English at all levels of proficiency, or anyone who wants fresh insights into how language works. VocabGrabber is easy to use. Simply copy a passage (up to about 100 pages) into a box on the VocabGrabber web site (http://vocabgrabber.com), click the Grab Vocabulary button, and an interactive visualization of vocabulary words and phrases immediately appears. Or add a VocabGrabber button to your toolbar, and you can grab vocabulary words from a web page with one click. What makes VocabGrabber especially useful is the way in which the words are organized. VocabGrabber compares how often words appear in the text with the frequency of these words in standard written English overall. Grabbing the vocabulary from the United States Bill of Rights, for instance, highlights significant legal terms like probable cause and cruel and unusual punishment. Grabbing the opening of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, meanwhile, will quickly zero in on words like workhouse, gruel, and pauper.

Rick was asking about templates. Hopefully, because this is in blogger in draft, it will be a bit more compatible