Passport to Web 2.0

via - onlinecolleges.net If you’re a student with classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google [...]

http://www.gapminder.org/ [youtube RUwS1uAdUcI nolink] Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.  We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, [...]

It’s been said that the strongest combination is a good tool in the right hands. This is one of the best visualization and storytelling tools I have seen since I have started using Keynote on my Mac. This is worth checking out. http://www.prezi.com

http://www.slide.com Upload images and create your animated slide show.

http://ccmixter.org/ ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, [...]

http://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people [...]

Web-based word processor and spreadsheet (i.e. Excel) application with a bundle of group-focused features: file sharing, document sharing and collaboration, contact management tool, edit/update RSS notifications and more. Peepel Features: Create, Edit, Share and Manage your documents online. Import existing documents and spreadsheets into your Peepel account. Supports most of the popular formats (.doc, .odt, [...]

http://www.co-ment.net/ Co-ment Features Create, edit, share, collaborate and annotate text documents online. Upload existing documents from local hard drive or create new ones. Supported document formats: Open Office, Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, Text docs (txt), etc. Annotation: Highlight any text and comment on it. Allow others to see and/or comment on the text. Different [...]

  Simple online flash card maker. In their own words: “FlashCardDB makes it easy to create, staudy and share flashcards online’ Create and store flash cards in your account. Search or browse flash cards created by others (by tags / recently created / recently studied). Organize flash cards using tags. Study Room: study flash cards [...]

  Want to turn some data into a fancy chart? Enter ChartAll, a free online chart creator where you can create highly customizable charts and save them. Store and edit charts online, embed them onto your website and privately share them with anyone you want. When creating a chart you can either enter the data [...]