Repper - turns your image into pattern

About Repper: "Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. It's the easiest way to create beautiful patterns for your desktop or social profile background. View many other marvelous designs in the gallery. All designs can be used publicly under the Creative Commons license for non-commercial use (see legal info)."

Elluminate - online learning collaboration

About Elluminate: "Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class web, video, and audio solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and completion rates, and higher ROI. Elluminate serves more than 600 million annual web-collaboration minutes to over 7 million teachers and students located in 170 different countries. With Elluminate vRoom™ you can meet online FREE with up to two others! That's right. No cost. No time limit. No kidding!"

Ediscio - collaborative flash cards

About Ediscio: "If you have to learn a lot of stuff, Ediscio is the tool of your choice. It provides you a swiss-army-knife-like variety of features, especially for collaboration. * Unlimited creativity in creating flashcards: Use LaTeX-formulas, pictures, videos, text formatting * Learning statistics which show you exactly what you should concentrate on * Automatic learning schedule according to the Leitner System * Version history and discussion board for any flashcard * Import and export of flashcards (CSV, XLS, Html) * Download your flashcards for offline learning (printing function) * Personal Newsfeed about all events in you learning groups and cardboxes and about what your friends do * Free and for everyone!"

RadioWeave - a listening experience

About RadioWeave: "With RadioWeave, you have complete control over your listening experience, which can include your favorite songs, real-time tweets from friends and entertaining podcasts, as well as automatic breaking news updates and local weather and traffic reports all rolled into a blended audio stream. RadioWeave also offers great ways to create and share your own content - click on the create tab to get started."

Livebrush - a brush tool that reacts to your gesture

About Livebrush: "Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics. Use graphics you create in Livebrush within your existing projects. Create entire compositions in Livebrush alone. Share styles and see how others combine your brush with their ideas. Styles let you customize how your brush reacts and how it looks. Learn the power of each setting in realtime using the convenient style preview. Decorations are graphics that can be stamped onto the screen or dynamically added to your line."

Microsoft Office Live - access anywhere

About Microsoft Office Live: "Access Anywhere. Stop carrying a flash drive. Access your documents from almost any computer. Online Storage and Sharing.
Store up to 5GB, share with anyone, and collaborate on a single document. Works with Programs You Know. View Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from your Web browser."

Eduset - share assignments, news, files, and more with students

About Eduset: "Eduset is a company dedicated to doing one thing and one thing only: making teachers' lives easier. Eduset was founded in 2009 by Will Johnson, at the time a high school senior, who realized that while the great majority of teachers wanted to be able to communicate with their classes online, most did not want to go through the tedious and unwieldy process of coding their own class websites. With Eduset, teachers can quickly and easily share assignments, news, files, and more with all of their students – no tech-savvy required. If you want to learn more, visit our blog or follow us on Twitter. Or, contact us. We'd love to hear from you. With Eduset, your students are always up to date on the latest assignments and events. No more late night emails from students who forgot to write down the homework. Post class notes, links to internet resources, videos, images and more for your students. Then, have a conversation with your students about what you posted. Try Eduset with one class, absolutely free, for as long as you want. When you're ready to use it for all of your classes, it's only $4.99 a month. Only students who you invite can see your class pages, and you manage to what degree they participate. You're in contr

Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration

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Tokbox - free audio/video web conferencing

About Tokbox: "Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here's how it works: you sign up and we give you a link. When you want to talk with anyone, just give them the link - they click and you chat. We make it easy for you to put your TokBox on your social network profile, blog, or personal webpage. Anyone can come to your page and see a "Push to Talk" button. They click it and connect to you in real time using live video and audio."

StorySomething - for parents of kids 3-8

About StorySomething (beta): "StorySomething is a new online community for busy parents of children aged 3-8 who love their children 10x more than they have time to spend with them. We are a global company based in beautiful San Francisco, CA. We can be reached at info @ storysomething dot com."

Game Classroom - online educational games for kids

About Game Classroom: "Game Classroom was developed to address needs we witnessed firsthand as parents and educators. Game Classroom is the newest web property from Earlier Media, where we are dedicated to providing trustworthy online destinations for children of all ages to learn, watch videos and play games online. We've thoroughly searched the web for engaging and educational games for kids, and we've collaborated with top educators to ensure that all of our games are age-appropriate, relevant and compliant with academic standards. Our team of educators has also created a vast library of 'Homework Help' as an additional resource for students, teachers and parents. As online games become increasingly pervasive in the home, we strive to offer a site that adults can trust and children will enjoy. We promote education, imagination and literacy…while always making sure kids have fun on Game Classroom!"

StudentAid - college dream = american dream

About StudentAid: "At StudentAid.com we believe * in the 'college dream' as much as we do in the 'American dream.' * education can transform an individual and a nation. * every individual with the interest and capability to complete a post-secondary education should be able to do so, regardless of their or their family's financial or personal circumstances. * that pursuing a dream—any dream—without due regard to its financial implications is reckless and potentially harmful. We created StudentAid.com out of a desire to help students and their families make well-informed, affordable college choices that are as appropriate for their career goals as they are for their bank account."

Google Voice - one number for all your phones

About Google Voice: "Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones -- a phone number that is tied to you, not to a device or a location. Use Google Voice to simplify the way you use phones, make using voicemail as easy as email, customize your callers' experience, and more. Google Voice isn't a phone service, but it lets you manage all of your phones. Google Voice works with mobile phones, desk phones, work phones, and VoIP lines. There's nothing to download, upload, or install, and you don't have to make or take calls using a computer. Google Voice will let you define which phones ring, based on who's calling, and even let you ListenInTM on voicemail before answering the call. We use smart technology to route your calls. So, if you're already on a Google Voice call, we'll recognize it and use call waiting to reach you on the phone you're on. Note: At this time Google Voice is only available in the U.S."

Indo-European Languages - free language resources

About Indo-European Languages: "This website is for anyone looking for free language resources in many of the Indo-European languages. Currently, there are 15 language tutorials available - three of which are not Indo-European languages - and 2 comparative tutorials for studying two languages simultaneously. Mp3s are also available for the French tutorials to aid with pronunciation (as well as for the FSI French, German, and Italian courses), and interactive exercises are currently available for the French I, French Slang, French Phonetics, Italian I and German I tutorials. ... The Languages section provides a complete list of the free language tutorials available, as well as other information about learning languages. The Linguistics section offers notes and papers to download from my university Linguistics courses. ...Feel free to use these tutorials for your own personal, educational use in or outside of the classroom. I've tried to make the tutorials easy to copy and paste into a word processer for printing. You can also print directly from your web browser, as I have used CSS coding to eliminate certain areas so that just the main text will print. In addition, the pages have been formatted for handheld devices. ... Lastly, if you'd like to contribute resources to ielanguages.com, please let me know. Finding native speakers to record pronunciation of the vocabulary is most important."

Animated Squirrel - for your blog or web site

Web Trend Map - visualization of online communities

About Web Trend Map: "Webtrendmap.com users create Micro-Aggregates of link publishers by choosing highly selective subsets to place on their Web Trend Maps. These maps become representative of subsets of online communities. The maps are also public facing (unlike most RSS readers) and provide a visual summary of links and trends within that community subset. Both the map creator and passive viewers gain insight into the community."

Thoughts - blogging, content sharing, social networking

About Thoughts: "A conversation engine that connects you with like-minded people. Our 100% free blog community provides unlimited bandwidth, photo, video and podcast sharing, community forums and live news discussions. We started thoughts.com as a place for people to share their thoughts. It has quickly developed into an online community of bloggers worldwide. What can you do on thoughts.com? * Create Blog Posts * Share Photos & Videos * Share Music Files & Podcasts * Post in the Forums * Discuss Current News * Meet New People."

Biology4Kids - everything you wanted to know

About Biology4Kids: "It's not just biology for kids, it's for everyone. We have information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics. If you're still not sure what to click, try our site map that lists all of the topics on the site. If you surf and get lost in all of the information, use the search function on the side of the pages."

TimeBridge - meeting scheduler

About TimeBridge: "TimeBridge’s one-step scheduling is the most efficient way to schedule meetings with large groups or individuals across time zones, calendaring systems and companies. TimeBridge allows users to easily schedule meetings, share their availability with others, and connect directly with calendars including Outlook, Google and iCal Calendar. While online calendars help users track their time, TimeBridge facilitates the social, and often complex process of getting busy people together — in person, on the phone or online. And TimeBridge is backed by blue-chip venture capital firms."

yfrog - tweet your photos and videos

About yfrog: "yfrog is a service run by ImageShack that lets you share your photos on and videos on Twitter. It's easy to use. yfrog makes tweeting photos and videos a breeze. Retweeting is even easier. Your friends will able to easily retweet any yfrog post directly from the landing page. It's optimized for mobile viewing. See example of full-screen photo view in iPhone. yfrog is supported by ImageShack's back-end for high performance and reliability."

Presdo - event scheduler

About Presdo: "Presdo is the world’s fastest event scheduler. Instead of lots of back and forth emails, texts, or voicemails, collect everyone’s input in one place, and let Presdo show you the best times to pick from—fast. Enter a phrase. Presdo figures out the who, what, when and where. Give one or several times, or even a time window. Collect time preferences from your guests. They refine your time suggestion when replying to your invite. Quickly see the best times from the replies. Pick the best time, and Presdo notifies your guests of the new time. Use Presdo for: meetings, movie nights, business lunches, study group sessions, conference calls, or any group event!"

Toodoc - a pdf search engine

About Toodoc: "If you have ever tried to search for books using the most common search engines, then you know that actually finding one can be tough. Thankfully, there is toodoc.com. Through this search engine, you’ll be able to search the web for PDF files, and nothing else. This allows you to type in the key words that describe the book you are looking for, and see what’s available. After you search, you’ll be presented with a listing of books and PDF files that matched your search criteria. One great thing about the site is that you can preview the files before downloading them. This allows you to see if the book you found is the one you were looking for. The preview loads really quickly and should serve as an alternative for anyone who doesn’t want to download the texts, and needs them for quick reference. Allowing to preview the files is a great feature that makes the site a lot more useful. In their own words “PDF and book search engine” Why it might be a killer PDF books are often hard to find on the web. This site makes it really easy, and since it lets you preview the books, you’ll only be downloading what you want."

Internet Anagram Server - anagrams never lie

About the Internet Anagram Server: "Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, 'All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.' Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams. (You can also get anagrams using email. Send a blank message to the wordserver at wsmith@wordsmith.org to get the instructions on using Anagram/by/Mail.)"

Skilswise - adult reading, writing, and math skills

About Skillswise: "Skillswise is the BBC website for adults who want to improve their basic skills in reading, writing and maths. Skillswise aims to become a thriving web community of learners and tutors. The Skillswise website is based on the Adult and Literacy and Numeracy Core Curriculums for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. When the curriculum for Scotland is published we will ensure that there are also activities on the site relevant to this. ...Skillswise isn't a course, it is a resource from which learners and tutors can dip and adapt. The site aims to provide a revision resource for students and tutors and to continue building an online community where learners and tutors can share their learning and teaching experience."

Tungle - meeting coordinator

About Tungle: "Professionals spend more time coordinating meetings than having them. Over 60% of meetings of professionals are with people outside their immediate company. Existing e-calendars only work within the confines of a single company, and do little to help professionals be more productive and connected. Tungle solves these challenges. We do this without requiring you to switch systems. Rather, we accelerate the environment you’re already familiar with. Tungle currently syncs with Outlook (with or without Exchange), Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac. Tungle is powered by a small, but dedicated team. We are headquartered in Montreal, Canada, have a Development Center in Waterloo, Canada, and are funded by Commonwealth Capital Ventures, JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital."

Congregar - group event date picker

About Congregar: "Congregar makes it easy to pick the best date for your event, by asking participants to indicate their availability from the options you offer. Click on the calendar to pick new dates. Participants will be able to choose between these options."

Periodic Table Elements - from Los Alamos National Laboratory

About the Periodic Table of Elements: "Originally this resource, the Periodic Table, was created by Robert Husted at Los Alamos National Laboratory during his time as a Graduate Research Assistant. The Periodic Table that you are currently viewing was inherited by the Chemistry Division from the Computer Division who provided the laboratory some of the internets first web sites. This page was given a face lift, tummy tuck, and lobotomy in 2002/2003 by Mollie Boorman. All of the graphics (other than the one of the nuclear submarine) were created in Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator in the eye-numbing hours of Mollie's workday. Still to come: grammar changes and newer information. Email Mollie at mboorman@lanl.gov --not just to contribute useful comments and corrections, but because Mollie likes email. This page is being offered as a public service to all those wanting to become more educated in the field of Chemistry. This is an imperfect resource with ambiguities and errors. If you notice something incorrect about our web page we would be grateful for any pointers. We welcome any suggestions or comment at nicky@lanl.gov."

iPod Literacy - classroom resources

About iPod Literacy: "While introduced as a hard drive based music player in 2001, the iPod has evolved into an essential tool for literacy in the 21st century. The availability of educational content is staggering. There are podcasts on everything from math to history to science to learning a foreign language. There is even a podcast on basket weaving. What is even more amazing is how easy it is for students and teachers to create their own digital content for the iPod. Students can then guide their own learning at their own pace, and review content on-demand. This idea of anywhere-anytime learning means the student is no longer tethered to the classroom learning environment."

Melvin's Make a Match - a game of fractions

About Melvin's Make a Match: "Make a Match is a Flash-based online game to test kids on equivalent fractions. Can you put Melvin's potions back in place? There are scores of other games here, courtesy of PBS Kids. Adobe Flash Player browser plugin is required."

Flipbook! - a drawing game

About Flipbook!: "Flipbook! is the drawing game that allows people to create simple animations and share them with the world! A lot like its predecessor, you draw with your mouse on the drawing area and use the arrows to add frames or to go back to previous frames. Colors and different stroke widths have been added to give Flipbook! a wider range of expression. Another extra tool is the 'duplicate frame' button which makes the animation job a lot easier. You can use the 'save' button to save your work in progress without publishing it. You can reopen it again from 'my flipbooks' and keep working on the animation until you are ready to publish it. You can use 'save & publish' when you are ready to publish the animation. Once you publish an animation you can't work on it any more. You can even make multiple smaller Flipbooks! called 'scenes', work on them independently and them mash them together using 'build and publish' to create your final Flipbook!"

White House 101 - about America's most famous home

About White House 101: "The White House is the official residence of the President of the United States, recognized worldwide as a symbol of the prestige of the presidency. Built between 1792 and 1800, the sprawling 132-room mansion has been used as a home by every President since John Adams. The East Wing of the White House principally serves as offices for the First Lady and her staff. The First Family's quarters, located on the second and third floor of the historic White House, provide them with privacy and comfort away from the public spotlight. The West Wing is home to the President's office and those of his top staff. On the pages that follow, you can learn more about the President's office, the many state rooms, and the grounds and history of America's most famous home."

Reference Point Software Templates - APA, MLA

Reference Point Software APA Template: "Reference Point Software's templates make it easy to format your papers in APA style. With just a few clicks of the mouse, your document will have the proper margins, with the header and page numbers in exactly the right places. Even references and citations are a snap…just type in the information and the software will format it perfectly. Most importantly, our templates allow you to concentrate on the content of your paper, so you can learn about the topic rather than word processing commands. Save time and work smarter with our templates, which are available for use with Word, Microsoft Works, OpenOffice and NeoOffice. These templates are based on the 6th Ed. of the APA Publication Manual (see order screen for the versions availble in 5th & 6th Edition) and include support for APA's style guidelines for electronic resources and references."

Not free, but still an excellent tool for the money. I use the APA template most often.

ScheduleOnce - meeting scheduler with Google Calendar plugin

About ScheduleOnce: "ScheduleOnce helps organizations accelerate their business by scheduling their meetings sooner and faster. It eliminates email and phone tag, and ensures a satisfying scheduling experience for all attendees. Use ScheduleOnce directly from your Google Calendar. Are you an avid Google Calendar user? The Google Calendar Add-on is a small browser extension that allows you to use ScheduleOnce directly from your Google Calendar. After installing the add-on in your browser, you will see the ScheduleOnce control added to your Google Calendar. From this control you can access all your ScheduleOnce meetings and create new meetings without ever having to leave your Google Calendar!"