Link: http://www.instapaper.com/

A fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later.

Link: http://polldaddy.com/

You can create online surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network. Create your surveys and polls using custom templates or create your own.

Link: http://www.stixy.com/welcome

This is Stixy

Stixy helps users organize their world on flexible, shareable Web-based bulletin boards called Stixyboards. Unlike most personal productivity or project management software, Stixy doesn’t dictate how users should organize their information. Users can create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on their Stixyboards, organized in whatever way makes sense to them. Then they can share Stixyboards with friends, family, and colleagues.

Link: http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Live Audience Polling
Step1 Ask your audience a question
Step2 They answer using SMS text messages, Twitter, or the web (try voting!)
Step3 Results update live in your web browser or PowerPoint

Very easy to use and perfect for AFL!

Link: http://wallwisher.com/

Wall Wisher is an online notice board maker. It gives you a virtual space where you can post short text notes in the same way that you could put post-it notes onto a notice board in your classroom. But this noticeboard can be shared between people all over the world. As well as text notes you can add images, video and links to other websites.

It’s a neat way of getting a shared space to collect ideas from people for a brainstorm. Or to post resources for a topic. Students could ask questions about a topic which you (or each other) can then answer

Link: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable

Play your media anywhere

VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Link: http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome

Customise pictures online

Link: http://www.jingproject.com/

Jing is free software that adds visuals to online conversations. You can record a wide range of things including

* Collaborate on a design project
* Share a snapshot of a document
* Narrate your photos
* Comment verbally on students’ homework

An example of where this has been successfully used in Maths can be found here

Link: http://screencastle.com/?launch

Free online screen recorder software. You can record a screencast directly from you browser.

Link: http://www.twiddla.com/

Twiddla is a non setup meeting “playground”

Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins or downloads

Link: http://www.mindmeister.com/

Creating and sharing mind maps online. Access your maps anytime and from anywhere and brainstorm with friends and colleagues in real time, just using a web browser.

Link: https://www.getdropbox.com/

You can sync files and folders online with a min of 2GB storage space.

Mind42.com is a browser based online mind mapping application. You register with the site then share your mind map via email.

Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that’s actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!

Give it a try!

Using Prez you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way.

Make your interactive posters easily and share it with staff and students

Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. This site allows you to turn text into video with a 3D environment.

Lets multiple people work on the same document simultaneously. Fantastic collaborative tool

Useful for

* Meeting notes
* Conference calls
* Drafting & wordsmithing
* Team programming
* Collaborative storywriting

A great little visual puzzle tool. It takes any online image and produces a slider puzzle that is ideal for working on the IWB.

Casual Collaboration.
Mash your ideas and media together in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks to name just a few.

A great way to use blogging outside of the classroom. Could be used for homework or sharing ideas. It’s the easiest way to post anything online using email.

Some examples of using Posterous are below

A History class blog
An individual History Blog

Try this out!!

You and yourt students can create avatars and then speach to them. You just need an internet connection. Could be used for starters / plenaries. Also students can record themselves. Great for differentiation

You can use this site to download youtube videos to a format of your choice

Create you own storybook

Create among others - music video slideshows

You can share documents and files with this application.
# DISCOVER fun or functional writings and documents on any subject – explore by category, by browsing or just typing in a search topic.
# SHARE your own writings and documents – dust off all that great content on your hard drive or in print. Then check back for comments and analytics on how many people have read or downloaded your doc.
# DISCUSS topics of interest to you - leave comments on other people’s documents, join groups and express yourself

Link: http://www.box.net/

The service enables users to share, access, and collaborate on files of any type from anywhere.

Link: http://www.zamzar.com

Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software? Zamzar is helps transform songs, videos, images and documents into different formats.

Link: http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/index.html

An excellent Video Conferencing Tool