Gadgets+and+Other+Cool+Stuff

[|Zamzar] Free online file conversation program. Slick!

[|ToonDoo] Very cool. Create cartoons!

[|Skitch] Sketch Snap, Draw, Share! Inferfaces with Flickr.

[|Pageflakes]: Personalize your homepage with your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email...and much more, all in one place! Some teachers use Pageflakes as a news aggregator as well.

[|Password Keeper] "Free Password Keeper enables you to manage a database of all your application, Web site, document, and other types of passwords. All your passwords are protected by a single master password, and your password database is compressed and encrypted to ensure security and portability." And much more!

[|Pownce] "Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You'll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast."

[|Red Snapper 1.4] A great tool for anyone who needs a picture of a FULL web page regardless of what you see on the screen at any one time.

[|ShowYourself] ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a Flickr account and a Facebook and AIM? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your myspace or anywhere on the web.

[|SpringWidgets] Widgets, MySpace Profile Gadgets, Social Network Countdown Badgets & RSS Feed Readers

[|Tumblr] Review from PC Magazine: "More of a "miniblog" than a microblog, Tumblr offers some of the instant gratification of Twitter and some of the richer formatting and mediacapabilities available in standard blogging services such as Blogger, LiveJournal, or Vox. Tumblr goes deeper than true microblog sites, adding richer goodies such as photos, video support, and feeds. With it you can create a "tumblelog," which the company describes this way: "If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks." These are usually full of prominently dated posts that are short on text and long on clipped pictures, video, quotations, and other Web artifacts. The archetypal example is Projectionist."

[|Twine] "A revolutionary new way to share, organize, and find information.Use Twine to better leverage and contribute to the collective intelligence of your friends, colleagues, groups and teams. Twine ties it all together."

Twitter The New York Times calls Twitter "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet." TIME Magazine says, "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app," and Newsweek noted that "Suddenly, it seems as though all the world's a-twitter."

[|Twittervision] A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. What is [|Twitter]? It is a social network. Folks around the world type in no more than 140 characters about what is happening in their world--from "what are you doing right now" to news headlines. ALSO SEE 12-17-07 NPR [|Middle School Kids Write Story on Twitter] ALSO SEE the story in action. [|"A Twitter story created by 140 Elementary and Middle School Students Across the Globe"] ALSO SEE this wiki on Twitter collaboration stories. [| 8 Cool Twitter Tools] Video tutorial on Twitter--click [|here].

[|Voki] Create a character!

[|YackPack] "YackPack's simple and convenient interface allows students and teachers to focus on content and not be distracted by the underlying technology. YackPack can quickly improve educational communication. Motivate students, give quality feedback with ease and communicate clearly with students, parents and administrators." Specific examples of uses in education provided.