File Sharing
Topic: All subjects
Drop.io is a web-based service for uploading and sharing any type of file, up to 100MB. It is really intuitive and easy to use: just add the files you want to upload, type a personalized URL, add an optionalpassword, select the expiration type, and click drop. Anyone who will be provided with the URL will be able to get the files without sending any email attachment or making long file transfers. Free to use, with no registration required.

Slideshow Creator
Topic: All subjects
MyPlick is a new site that lets you create slide shows and offer an interactive widget for viewers to navigate your slide show. Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents and all sorts of files can be uploaded (at once) to create your slide show. Include audio along with your slide show to make a complete online presentation. You can also add notes for each slide, to provide additional information to viewers as the slide show plays.

Create Web Page Slideshows
Topic: General
WebSlides, lets you create a slide show with web pages. From a collection of bookmarks, you can indicate which web pages you’d like to include for your slide show, or just insert which websites you’d like to add. Use drag’n'drop technology to arrange and rearrange the order of your slides.

Slideshow Creator
Topic: All subjects
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

Video Creation
Topic: All subjects

Video is the language of the new millennium. This site will be used to help students and teachers begin to view video content creation in much the same way that we look at writing now.  There will be short “How To” videos on video. There will be sample videos. Eventually students will create content and upload it to the site, where teachers can critique and can help students. No content will be longer than 5 minutes.

Personal Start Page
Topic: All subjects
Protopage is your own personal page that you can use for quick access to everything on the web that you go to most. You can use it to: Read news from your favorite news sites and blogs: Keep bookmarks to your most frequently accessed web sites:  Organize your day with to-do lists and sticky notes: Create web pages, group pages, and intranets: And much more! Creating your page is easy and fun - simply drag and drop from a directory of hundreds of widgets containing everything from news headlines to sports scores to puzzle games.

Text To Voice Converter
Topic: All subjects
SpokenText.net allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. And every member gets a personal podcast URL , which you can use to download recordings to iTunes or your iPod. You can also easily share your recordings on your web site or blog using SpokenText Badges or individual recording players. And best of all it's COMPLETELY FREE! Register now.

100+ Ways to Organise Your Life
Topic: General
There comes a time in life when you have to put a stop to the mess you’ve been working and living in and say: no more! I’m going to get organized, do more and earn more in the same or even shorter amount of time. We’ve collected over one hundred links to help you get it together.

Use A Search Cloud To Find Information
Topic: All subjects

Quintura, the visual search engine, has just launched a couple of new features, starting with a Hot News search cloud. This gives you quick access to items that are being searched the most on the web. You may appreciate Quintura’s other new feature–embeddable search cloud. You can embed a search cloud for any set of results you’d like, such as your own name, topics covered on your blog, etc.

Online Photo Editing
Topic: All subjects

Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.
PhotoEditr is the vanilla of the three, offering the user a variety of simple picture fixes such as red eye or blur and focus correction. PhotoStylr adds to the mix special effects, light effects, tone adjustments.. essentially the types of fixes you see in your standard photo library editor like Picasa. PhotoProfilr is the social component, allowing you to take a picture you’ve edited and load it to any social network, resized and compatible.

Mind Mapping Software
Topic: All subjects

Here is a new mindmapping tool.
WiseMapping is an online mind-mapping software that enables you to create mind maps and share them with your team. It uses SVG/VML instead of Flash or AJAX so you can create online mind-maps that are viewable in more browsers. You can invite other students to edit the map and, when it's finished, you can export it in multiple formats or publish it online.

140+ Search Engines
Topic: All subjects
A great research link to over 140 search engines and directories. The fact that most students don’t even consider switching Google for anything else doesn’t mean that there’s no innovation going on in the field of search. Quite the contrary; which can be seen from the list of search engines at this site.

Learning Theories for Instructional Designers
Topic: Instructional Design
Stanton Wortham from Wharton/University of Penn describes the popular learning theories in use today and the assumptions they make about how people learn. He describes these theories in 4 videos. Very refreshing stuff.

Find Instructional Videos
Topic: All subjects
Here is tool for searching for instructional videos to assist your learning.

File Conversion
Topic: All subjects
If you're looking for a one-stop shop, file conversion service, then take a look at YouconvertIt. YouconvertIt lets you upload document, image, audio and video files and will convert them from one format to another. All you need to do is select the file from your computer, pick your target format, and the file will be uploaded and converted. Once the conversion is complete, you'll receive an e-mail containing a link to allow you to download it.

Graphic Search Engine
Topic: General
Here is a good tool to aid in WWW exploration for visual thnikers who don’t like paging through lists of search results? You enter a URL, it crunches a bit, and returns a node map with lines to sites that are “similar”. If you double click any of the nodes, they expand for the network around that node. You can use the sliders to zoom or change the spacing of the graphic, and drag around nodes to re-arrange them. And there are some graphic tools for coloring, annotating, etc.

Create a Collection of Your Favourite Videos
Topic: vblogging
Here you can create your own “pods” of video collections, and with their one click browser tools, you can create collections of web video from 1000s of different video sites, YouTube, Google, MySpace, just about anywhere that embeds flash video. You can do some customization of your “pod”, have categories, tags, comments– and it provides a cut and paste method to embed a “widget” in your blog.

Create Timelines For Projects
Topic: General
This is a nice interactive tool for developing timelines.  You can create and share your timelines as well as explore those already available. Check out the "History of Video Games" timeline as an example of the potential of this tool.

Save The Videos You See On The Web
Topic: vblogging

StreamYard enables you to save the videos you see on the web, for example on YouTube. Simply enter the URL, download and then playback. Upload to a host service and embed in your wiki/blog.

Improve File Searching With Tags
Topic: General

A tag is simply a label or keyword that describes your file for making it easer to find. With tag2find you do not need to have inflexible folder structures anymore: tagging frees your information. You will find everything (documents, movies, images, music, etc.)  on your desktop by simply using tags. It does not matter where your files are stored on your disk, you will find them anyway.