Collaborative Design
Topic: Website design
Use this free web service to obtain or provide feedback on  your TAFE design projects. You can upload your designs, EMBED THEM IN YOUR BLOG,  and others can add voice or text comments and colour annotations. It's a great tool for collaborative design projects, particularly when you are looking for ideas from other TAFE students to help you overcome a 'sticking point'.

Online Meeting Scheduler
Topic: General
Tungle is a powerful peer-to-peer (P2P) meeting coordinator. You can use Tungle to arrange meetings with class colleagues, project team members, and friends  no matter where they are or what calendaring software they use.

Tungle provides you with a view of the free or busy times of people with whom you want to schedule a meeting - in advance of sending a meeting invitation.

New Search Engine Recommendation
Topic: General
Here  is an excellent new search engine to help you find the best information for your projects. Get instant results from your favorite search site + other top search sites at once. Your favorite search site (e.g. GOOGLE)  may not be the best one for video, audio, social bookmarks, entertainment, employment, et.

Blog Widget - Video, Audio, Photos, Text and RSS Feeds
Topic: blogs
Here is a great widget for your blog/wiki. The player can be customised to fit in your blog's sidebar. SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, their content is automatically updated across all the web pages 'tuned' to that channel.

Widgets for your blog and wiki
Topic: blogs
Here is a site that provides a wide range of widgets to enhance your blogs. Widgets provide links to sites and applications that include To Do lists, video and mp3 players, Flickr, etc. etc.,  and a wide range of blog sites.

Web 2.0 Applications. Web Publishing, File Managers, etc.
Topic: General
Links to 250 Web 2.0 applications (most are free), including 29 bookmarking applications, 13 calendar applications, 5 contacts managers, 17 CRM systems, 11 database managers, 17 desktops, 14 development tools, 8 document managers, 11 feed readers, 16 file managers, 7 photo editors, and much much more.

Embed Images and Videos in Blogs / Wikis
Topic: blogs

Google's image and photo storage and sharing service, has been upgraded…They've increased their free storage allocation and also added the facility to directly link to individual albums and photos, making it easier to share them via e-mail or IM. They even give you the HTML code to display an album or photo on a web page.

They've also integrated it with Blogger so if you've got a blog hosted by Blogger, log in to Picasa Web Albums and you'll find a new album containing uploaded images from your blog. Tip: Resize images to the size your posting as it saves space and should be faster at loading and rendering. If you need a utility to help crop and resize images use SnipShot - http://snipshot.com/

Online Quiz Creation
Topic: Instructional Design
Here is a great site for instructional design students and teachers. Create your own FREE online quiz. Customize with your own choice of logo, text & colors. Post your quiz at any webpage (your blog, myspace page or classroom page).

Group Voicebooks - Group Audio Blogging
Topic: blogs
VoiceThread enables “group audio blogging” - you can create “voicebooks” combining images and audio. Extremely simple but is effective when you want  to post an image and allow others to add their text or voice comments. Also note that you can post these voicebooks to your blog, wiki, MySpace, etc.

Online Converter - Download online videos direct to PC
Topic: vblogging
This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (Youtube's movie,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

Convert Blog/RSS Feed Information Into a PDF File
Topic: blogs
Here is an innovative application that converts information from an RSS feed into a PDF file. You simply enter the URL of your blog or RSS feed.

Who is Visiting Your Blog Site -- Country? and City?
Topic: General
Neocounter is "an innovative and unique web counter that displays your visitors on your blog or website by country and city" You can see one version of it in action on this posting.  You can start using NeoCounter Premium immediately. After a 14-day trial period you can either keep the
free version or upgrade to NeoCounter Premium.

Brain Games
Topic: General
The title says it all.....have fun.

Images To Enhance Blogs and Wikis
Topic: General
Here are some great images for your blogs and wikis. They include Punk Graphics, Goth Graphics, Glitter text generator, Inspirational Graphics, etc. Although developed for use with MySpace sites they can also be embeded in blogs, wikis and websites....

Web File Storage - Free Host Service
Topic: General
Yahoo Briefcase is recommended as a free service for storing your files on the Web. Limited to 30mbs but has the advantage of letting you create a folder structure for storing files. This is particularly useful when a number of files are created at the same time and need to be kept in the same folder e.g. Camtasia.

Update your blog automatically with other blog updates.
Topic: blogs
Add your favorite blogs (or any source with a RSS feed) to your Feevy tag and receive automatic updates. Feevy gives you a personalized feevy tag. Just place the tag in your blog template or wiki and... bang! Your friends will appear in your blog! Feevy shows the latest posts from your favorite blogs in one column putting them in order according to the latest updates, which will appear on top. You can use as many feevy tags as you like. placing them anywhere in your blog or your html page.

Mind-mapping and Brainstorming Tool
Topic: All subjects
MindMeister, which is currently in private beta (enter your email and you might get an invite), is a new online mindmapping tool similar to Bubbl.us, Gliffy’s web-based diagram service and Mayomi (now dead, it seems). There’s no doubt that it’s nicely designed and comes with some neat features: cut, copy & paste, undo and redo, font colors, a revision history, keyboard shortcuts, multi-user editing and the ability to import, export and save maps to the server.

Virtual Worlds - Second Life
Topic: General
Second Life: The Official Guide Here is a great book if your interested in Linden Lab's fascinating Second Life metaverse. It explores in detail every aspect of Second Life's rich and multilayered virtual world, explains how it works, and offers a wealth of information and practical advice for all Second Life residents.

Get Ideas and Start a Portfolio
Topic: All subjects

Here is a web service where you can view the creative works of graphic designers….a great source of ideas for your projects. You can create a portfolio of your projects and send it out to potential employers and colleagues. You can connect with designers and start creative dialogues with colleagues, friends, and other members. What inspires you? Start your inspiration book and share where you find your creativity.

iPods - What to Buy and How to Use
Topic: General

This free iPod tutorial explains the differences between the iPod models. It also deciphers the technical jargon used on websites to explain the iPods various features and functions. The iPod tutorial includes screenshots to assist users in setting up the basics, from the date and time, to their contacts. The iPod tutorial is designed to even help advanced iPod users to take advantage of the iPods more advanced and complex features.