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Welcome to the ultimate guide to YouTube. Unless you've been living under rock throughout the 'Noughties', YouTube is quite simply the world's largest collection of video content and as an educator it is an amazing resource that you SHOULD NOT be without.

This is a scarry place and I couldn't resist bookmarking it 'cause you never know. At least hotsheet.com is really organized! Good luck with this one! Good golly - you really have to like the Brits!

This came from my friend @AuntyTech in NC and also @PSEA via twitter. This is how I find stuff for sharing - my PLN!

a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.

TinyGrab is a simple yet extremely powerful utility for Mac OS X and Windows. Harnessing the power of pre-existing and new OS screenshot taking capabilities, TinyGrab instantly uploads and allows you to share with a small URL- all in under thirty-seconds.

Lesson plans and video clips for ESL. I liked the video clip of the cat and goldfish!

Now here's an idea that warrants thought.

A Clusty Cloud is a tool that webmasters or bloggers can use to instantly visualize a topic using the familiar tag cloud display. What makes the Clusty Cloud unique is that you can create a cloud based on any topic or query - you don't need tags or months of content on a subject to create an interesting cloud.

"So the challenge is to find ways to create online teacher professional development that seems both compelling in its content and also more convenient, easier to fit into the work life of a teacher than the face-to-face courses"

As with all instructional strategies, however, we found that some approaches to summarizing are more effective than others. Five strategies appear to influence students' ability to comprehend text.

Ahead is a web application that facilitates Creative processes. We are a team of architects, designers, developers, and business people with backgrounds in the creative industry. Ahead originated out of frustration with the shortcomings of current tools for online collaboration and publishing because we don't think they support rich media and visual creative processes and communication very well. Inspired by the proven zoom and pan user interfaces known from main creative authoring tools like Autodesk, Adobe, and Sketch-up we're committed to develop the first online tool ever that makes it as fast, natural and fun to publish and work with visual concepts together online.

Urtak is an easy to use web tool that lets teachers and students make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions. The polls are unlimited, embeddable, and allow the user to analyze results in real time.

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra addresses participants at the Edustat University 2009 conference, hosted by Albemarle County Public Schools in Charlottesville July 20-22, 2009. Chopra discusses using data to help discover and overcome gaps in student learning and how to know what we teach and how well it is working. (2:24 minutes)

"Skype on-line training videos"

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Are you looking for ways to incorporate digital media into your teaching? PBS Teachers offers a series of FREE monthly webinars featuring leading education technology experts and PBS producers sharing resources and strategies to help teachers use digital media to engage students in rich learning experiences.

An interactive multi-user whiteboard application Use it for tutoring, collaborative live training, brainstorming, prototyping An online replacement of your paintbrush application

Create a sticky note, choose your color, and drag it. Postica remembers the location of your sticky on every computer.

"Sqworl is a web application that provides a clean and simple way to visually bookmark multiple URLs. "