By Larry Kling

 Distance Learning – Connecting with live video and audio to a remote site in real time.  Skype – Free – Limited number on a webcam at one time. Skype  Skype in the Classroom – Connect with classes around the world. Skype in the Classroom  Distance Learning Equipment – Allows real time connections of large groups.

 WikiSpaces.com- Building pages on a wiki is a great way for students to record and share knowledge about topics they've researched. WikiSpaces.com spaces.com/

 Edublogs.org - Create a running journal of classroom activities and lessons throughout the year. Blogs can be used by students to record and reflect on their own learning. Make your students contributing authors on a class blog and have them write a weekly reflection on their own learning. Edublogs.org

 Glogster - A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data. Glogster

 GoogleMaps- Google Maps and Google Earth can both be used to create a multimedia story. Try having your students write the biography of a famous person by plotting points on a map and adding text, images, and videos about that person to each placemark.Google MapsGoogle Earth

 GoogleDocs – Create share and collaborate on line with students. GoogleDocs  WindowsLive SkyDrive - Create share and collaborate on line with students. Word, PowerPoint, Excel WindowsLive SkyDrive

 TodaysMeet - A backchannel is another name for a chat room in which your students type their questions and comments whenever they have them. You can then address those questions and comments immediately, have students reply to each other, or address the questions when time permits. TodaysMeet

 Join a Social Network for  Professional Development  Use these connections to gather ideas for improving your lesson plans, share and find great web resources, and perhaps virtually connect your classroom to another classroom.

 Join a Social Network for  Professional Development  Twitter Classroom 2.0 Twitter Classroom 2.0  Educators PLNFlat Classroom Project Educators PLNFlat Classroom Project  EPals EPals

 Podcasts - Creating podcasts is a great way for students to preserve oral histories or to hear themselves practicing a foreign language.  Audacity – Installed on all CR computers.  Aviary Myna – Free online recording Aviary Myna

 Video Without Equipment - Video is a powerful form of communication. Today, anyone with access to the web can make a high-quality video production.  JayCut – Free Online Video Editor JayCut  ScreenCast-O-Matic – Record you on screen lesson. ScreenCast-O-Matic

77 Free Web 2.0 Sites to Try in Super Book of Web Tools for Educators