Think Google Tools
Gmail - E-mail with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser.
Google Talk - Teachers and students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free -- anytime, anywhere in the world. Imagine the possibilities for people collaborating on projects from different locations.
Google Calendar - Everyone can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others. You can even publish the school calendar on your website to let families know about events like back-to-school nights, homecoming and vacation days.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets - Students and teachers can create documents and spreadsheets and then collaborate with each other in real-time right inside a web browser window.
Google Page Creator - Create and publish web pages for your domain quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get web design tool. No technical expertise required.
Notebook - With the firefox addon this is great for any informal research on the web. Google Notebooks are also great because you can share them or make them public/
Calendar - Perfect for creating school or class calendars--you can decide which calendars to view, which to publish, which to share, and they can be embedded and subscribed to
Docs & Spreadsheets - With a google account you can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations easily AND the collaboration features they have included allow multiple people to edit the same document at the same time. GREAT for the classroom because with the Revisions tab, you can even see which student contributed what).
Blogger - Yep. Every teacher should blog. More on that later.
Translate - I use this to read blog posts created by others in other languages - why couldn't your students do the same?
Video & YouTube - How can you argue with free video hosting? While you definitely have to keep its educational uses in check, I'll be the first to admit that I've used YouTube with my students.
Reader - This is my RSS reader of choice. I like it because it's not stored locally - thus I can read my feeds on any campus and in any Internet-connected classroom.
Time-line View (coming soon) - This tool should be a history teacher's dream come
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