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[|Edublogs] - Education-only content means that this blogging site won't be blocked by most school filters. Kidblog - Blogging site specifically for elementary and middle schoolers. No student emails required.
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Content Management Systems
Class.io - Turn Google Apps for Education into a full course management system. Edu 2.0 - Free, online Learning Management System. Moodle - Free, open source Learning Management System.

Printing from the web
=== [|PrintFriendly] - Make any Web page print friendly. Get a button to add to your own pages. === [|Printliminator] - Add the button to your bookmarks toolbar, and use it to edit any webpage to print only what you want or need. [|PrintWhatYouLike] Format any Web page to make it printer friendly.

**Presentation/Collaboration** [|Glogster EDU] - Use your Glogster account to see educational glogs. You can sign up, and get access for up to 50 students. Google Apps for Education - Use Google apps at your school - free and ad-free. [|Google Docs] - Share files with students or coworkers. Upload documents, or create them directly in Google Docs: Word, PowerPoint, Excel spreadsheets, and Forms (which you can use for surveys or polls). For ideas of how to use Google Docs in the classroom, check out this page. [|Google Groups] - Create a collaboration space, share documents, set up an email group, and more with Google Groups. // [|Google Sites] - Easily create sites for any class or project. Choose from templates, or customize the page. // // [|Join.me] - Share your desktop with others. Great for demonstrating how to do something, or for meetings. // // [|OpenZine] - Create your own online magazine for free. // // [|PollCode] - Create polls online for free. // [|Prezi] - A nice alternative to PowerPoint, Prezi basically has you create a poster or topic map, which you set to zoom in to certain elements during your presentation. Check out their [|demonstration]. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Slideshare] - Share presentations, documents and videos. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Titanpad - Work simultaneously on a document, hosted online. Urli.st - Provide people with a short URL that will lead them to further resources. Watch a video demonstration. Wikispaces - create a classroom wiki. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Mouse Mischief] - Free download from Microsoft. Uses ordinary wireless mice for student interaction with a projected computer screen. Watch a brief video <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|here] //. //

// **Recording/Capturing** //
// <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Jing] - Create videos or snapshots of what is on your computer screen. // <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Screenjelly] - create videos of your computer screen (with sound if you want) up to 3 minutes long. SoundCloud - " <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">SoundCloud makes it easy to share and promote your sounds to anyone, anywhere by connecting your account with Twitter, Facebook & other neat services." <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|VoiceThread] - <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Upload images, documents or videos.

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Social Networking**
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Edmodo - Like Facebook, but for education. [|Formulist]- Create useful lists in Twitter. Find people like you, people your friends follow, etc. easily. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Goodreads] - create a social network of readers in your classes. Connect with other teachers to see what reading they are assigning in their classes. // <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|HootCourse] - Create a forum for discussion using pre-existing social media accounts (Facebook or Twitter). Add a widget to your webpage, displaying the discussion. // // <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|LibraryThing] - create a social network of readers in your classes. Connect with other teachers to see what reading they are assigning in their classes. // <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Paper.li - Read Twitter as a daily newspaper. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or hashtag (#). <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">SchoolTube - Like YouTube, but educational content only. Should be allowed by most filters. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Shelfari] - create a social network of readers in your classes. Connect with other teachers to see what reading they are assigning in their classes. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Today's Meet] - Create a backchannel for your class, group or presentation. Choose a Twitter hashtag, and how long the room will be saved for. Twitter - Not just for celebrities. Connect with other students and educators, and make Twitter a great learning tool! Watch these videos for pointers on how to use Twitter and TweetDeck (one of many desktop apps for Twitter). <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Wiggio - Connect with your class or group via a number of ways. Wikispaces - create a classroom wiki.

Using and Sharing Web Content
bit.ly - Shorten a long URL. Sign up for a free account, and you can customize the shortened URL! [|DocsTeach] - Introduce students to primary documents. Create activities, or find shared activities created by other educators. Google Books - Get free PDF and epub versions of books in the public domain. See also Project Gutenberg. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Instapaper] - Save Web pages from your research for reading later. Read saved pages on your computer, your iPod/iPhone, your Nook or Android phone. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Project Gutenberg] - Get free PDF and epub versions of books in the public domain. Qwiki - An interesting new way to learn using the Internet. Voice, video, maps, photos, are all integrated into a presentation. Currently in alpha testing (you have to sign up to use it, though examples are available to give you a "feel" for how it <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">SchoolTube - Like YouTube, but educational content only. Should be allowed by most filters. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">SymbalooEDU - Organize and share the best of the web. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Trailmeme - Create a path for your students to follow on the Web to learn about specific topics. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|VocabGrabber] - Analyze any text, isolate most-used vocabulary terms, and see how they are used in context.

Further places to find resources
Find out about tons of resources at [|Free Technology for Teachers]. Read about what Courtney is doing and discovering at the [|Curriculum Library blog] See what Courtney has tagged via Diigo as "web tools" [|here]. Check out this [|free ebook], which includes lesson plans for 21st century skills.

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