Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and Web2.0 that make technology accessible to students.
A.nnotate.com lets you easily give, collect and store detailed notes on documents and web pages.
The Free version is very limited, but the service itself seems really nice.
BrainHoney allows any educator to quickly and efficiently leverage online learning
social bookmarking on steroids. This adds a highlight and sticky note feature to bookmarks. Great for taking notes on webpages.
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
Use drop.io to create drops and privately share your files by web, email, phone, fax, and more. Drops are protected from search engines so you can conveniently share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.
Student email
Light weight alternative to Acrobat Reader. It allows for annotations.
Free Student Email
Jarnal is an open-source application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal, making a presentation, annotating a document - including pdf - or collaborating using a stylus, mouse or keyboard. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal and to the earlier Mimeo whiteboarding and Palm notepad applications. There is also a commercial knockoff of Jarnal called PDF Annotator - for $50 you can enjoy a subset of the capabilities that Jarnal provides for free.
Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.
ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
osTube is the first content management system for media content (MCMS) for creating websites similar to YouTube, Veoh, metacafe, vimeo and Revver.
Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. Its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.
New way to present. It does not use slides, but a single canvas which you then can create a path to take through it. Nice.
Simple Invoices is Free/Open Source Software, community developed, and designed to get the job done. There is no hype, no buzz words, and no features you are never going to use. It's aimed at freelancers, or small businesses and non-profit organizations that need casual invoicing.
Google's Web browser Chrome thrilled with an extremely fast site rendering, a sleek design and innovative features. But it also gets critic from data protection specialists , for reasons such as creating a unique user ID or the submission of entries to Google to generate suggestions. SRWare Iron is a real alternative. The browser is based on the Chromium-source and offers the same features as Chrome - but without the critical points that the privacy concern.
A single tool for building and sharing online multimedia projects in or out of the classroom.
Work from any computer. Anywhere. And then give those powers to students, colleagues, and friends. Bring them into your workgroups.
A learning platform where teachers and students create learning projects, participate in a website competition, and browse a library of student projects.
With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, MySpace, personal site and many other portals. And, you can invite people through simple mail notification and twitterings.
Conversation around media.
http://voicethread.com/?#home.b409
VoiceThread is a powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents and videos.
Another Collaborative WebEx alternative. It allows for multiple video streams and multiple contributors, and desktop sharing between collaborators. I prefer this to dimdim.
Hold online meetings, share your screen and work together on the same documents in real time.
Web Conferencing - Online Meetings - Remote Assistance
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.