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From General Electric comes this great online whiteboard. Using a range of tools you can create all manner of illustrations. You can also add collaborators to work on the whiteboard at the same time and best of all you can replay the sequence of the illustration.

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Part of a larger Marvel Comic site with games and other promotional material, this page lets you create relatively simple comic strips using characters from the Marvel comics. A little like a cut down version of Comic Life it is a reasonable introductory tool. Finished comics can be printed or downloaded as a pdf.

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My Avatar Editor creates avatars based on the Mii™ characters found on the Nintendo® Wii™. With an extremely easy interface, avatars can be created either online or by using the download app available from the site. The on site guide has all you need to get started.

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This page from a larger pbworks wiki focusses on Social Bookmarking and has a couple of really great sets of notes for using Diigo with teachers and students.

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Though this list is very American centric it is not a bad starting point if only to check out the different varieties of apps out there. Of the ones on the list, my faves are Evernote. Wordpress, Touchcalc, Google Earth and Starmap.

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This page from Guide To Arts School.com is a very concise summary of what they consider the 11 best free photo editing programs. The page has links to the downloads for each app as well as links to tutorials for each application. In addition to the 11 download apps here are briefer links to their top five online tools.

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Backtype is yet another search engine this time looking to mine "real time web based conversations". A quick check suggests that though it does quite a good job of checking through social media such as blogs and Facebook the Chatter search on the side panel misses most of the Twitter traffic. Worth a look though.

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This post from Teaching Degree.org Blog list 50 great ways that skype has been or could be used in the classroom. The annotated list has links out to examples of each of the activities that teachers have used Skype with.

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This pbworks has been created by Dan Froelich as the result of a presentation at NCETC. It includes a couple of directories as well as reference to some research on Skype in education. The Want Ads section is the place to add or search for projects that use Skype in the classroom.

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BackupMyTweets is a "teaser" site that Twitter users can use to create an archive of their tweets. Twitter itself stops archiving tweets once you reach 3,200, (so most of us don't have to worry too much just yet).

Potentially of more interest on the site however are the other pay for services offered by BackupMy in the BackupMyBlog and BackupMyPics options. For those with extensive blogs and/or Flickr accounts and the like, the $19.95 per year back up service may be money well spent if only for peace of mind.

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This fabulous online digital image editing suite has two components, Pixlr Express and the full blown Pixlr Editor. Express is as the name suggests great for a quick edit including cropping rotating etc as well as adjustments and a range of effects. The editor is fully featured and very intuitive to use, (more so than a number of other more high profile apps).

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" In simple terms, Photosynth allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and automagically stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web."

Photosynth requires the installation of Microsoft silverlight to view and at this stage only works on a PC. You will also need a windows live account.

Photosynths can be embedded in your blog though you will need a good broadband connection.

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"The School 2.0 eToolkit is designed to help schools, districts and communities develop a common education vision for the future and to explore how that vision can be supported by technology."

The site contains a range of resources including the Learning Ecosystem Map that is accessible in both an interactive form as well as a poster. The map is a work in progress that you can create an account to add to. The site also has a range of other tool and toolkits that school administrators and technology and other co-ordinators can use to develop their own understanding of School 2.0.

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Big Huge Labs is where you can find a range of toys, tools, utilities and games related to the use of Flickr including jigsaws collage, mosaic, maps, slideshows and posters.

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This is, I believe, the original source article for the 90% lurkers 9% and 1% contributors quote. Whilst the article from Jakob Neilsen explains the basis for his assertion then it also goes on to explore the upsides and downsides of this situation as well as some ways to overcome the downsides. The article was written in 2006 so some of the context may have changed though I wonder whether the fundamentals are not still the same.

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This fabulous pbworks wiki is a collection of links to a whole range of diverse tools and resources to manage and use in research. Though it is aimed more at higher education, many of the tools also have applicability to other sectors of education.

"Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for."

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This slideshow is a colllection of maps, models, and visualizations from a range of sources and places on the web aimed at helping to understand the components that make up Web 2.0 as well as how they fit together. It has been created and assembled by the good folk at www.EdVibes.com. As with all things Web 2.0 however at least one of the maps, that from informationarchitects has already been updated.

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Club Penguin from the Disney Corporation is arguably the biggest and oldest student online space. The basic features are free though to access the complete suite of features you will need to subscribe. Subscriptions can be monthly, or 6 and/or 12 months. As well as a range of artwork, colouring, comics and games there are also chat and mail facilities. Children can also create and decorate their own igloo space. Penguin Coins can be earned through playing games and can be used to purchase "virtual" items.

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A bit like those PowerPoint effects which make you ponder why they are included, the Visible Tweets visualisations are a bit lost on me however some others enjoy the eye candy of seeing tweets performing gyrations on their screen. An interesting concept nonetheless :).

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Robin Good's fabulous Mindmeister mind map is a great graphic organiser listing an ever expanding list of Web 2.0 tools and apps. One of the neat things about the map are the preview thumbnails and the external links you can access by clicking on the small button next to each item.

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