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from eSchool News: Two new CoSN whitepapers address the challenges, benefits of Web 2.0 for education

Analyze learning activities against Bloom's in a spreadsheet setup.

Give students the ability to unleash their creativity in new and innovative ways. From abstract art to pointillism, students now can click and draw their way into original works of art, and today's freebie gives you a great list of places to begin.

Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time. You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes: historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment.

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Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen, including Twitter

"Are you looking for a quick and easy way to make groups in your classroom? You can use our Group Maker to quickly break your students into groups of 2, 3, 4, or 5. The groups are random and can be shuffled over and over as needed! "

This is really easy to use!

Gl.am allows you to shorten URLs, create a personalized home page, store multiple URLs into one URL through link groups, and more!

Gl.am allows you to shorten URLs, create a personalized home page, store multiple URLs into one URL through link groups, and more!

bookmarklets are small little applications you can place as browser's bookmark bar and they each perform a specific function, depending on what they are coded for. Bookmarklets are usually written in Javascript and they are extremely easy to install/remove. Bookmarklets work in most common used browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari but probably lesser support in Internet Explorer. Article shares some of the most useful bookmarklets for designers, developers or even if you are a net surfer, they might just come in handy. Installing a bookmarklet is simple - all you need to do is drag them to your bookmark toolbar, that's all.

Swivel features more than 15,000 data sets for users to play with in various categories ranging from Economics to Health to Technology. From the data, users have created hundreds of thousands of graphs, charts and infographics, including the one below that visualizes the amount of rainfall in California since 1870. You can get started by copying and pasting your data or uploading an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file to the site. Once you've create your visualization, you can embed it anywhere on the web.\n

Verifiable allows users to upload, mash and visualize data. Verifiable just launched earlier this year and has fewer publicly available data sets, but it does offer greater flexibility on how the data is styled and presented. Graphic designers will appreciate the ability to change and tweak the presentation and add details like custom labels and shading. Verifiable is free to use if you keep your charts public, but also has a inexpensive pricing plan for those who want to keep their work private.\n

New web application that allows users to compare and merge text documents online. You can upload different versions of the same text document and see what has been changed. It automatically color codes changes it finds between the different revisions of a document and provides user with an easy way to approve, reject, or set aside a change.

make posters, magazine covers, calendars, maps

It's a free library of digital content to read and explore. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library.\n\nCreate your own interest groups and join other people's, to share your passions, experiences and knowledge with like-minded users.\n\nIt's a place where you can publish your expertise and creative work online, to promote, share or sell to the world.\n\nAt the heart of YUDU is an award winning multimedia publishing system that brings together the power of the written word, video, audio and images.