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 Introducing the Conceptual Age of Web 2.0:  From the Industrial Age to the Information Age and now the Conceptual Age; is education moving at the current rate of transition from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age to keep up with the future generation of learners?

Apture provides the first rich communication platform allowing publishers and bloggers to easily turn flat pages of text into multimedia experiences

Big Huge Labs...provides an array of tools for showcasing your digital images in the form of a magazine cover, a poster, a puzzle, and many other forms. Using Big Huge Labs does not require any registration and you can download copies of your creations without creating an account. That said, they do offer you the option to create an account in which you can save your work.

EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND - an innovative dynamic model using the World Wide Web and integrating Literacy, Technology and the Arts and to help all children (especially girls), teachers, and regular folks to learn to use and feel comfortable with technology.

Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.

Gcast... an awesome podcasting tool; ...students can call in their podcasts and it posts right to the server. This is, by far, the easiest podcasting software out there

Glogster...is a great way to bring poster projects into the 21st century....students can create multimedia collages about anything.
provides a good way to transition a 20th Century poster project into a 21st Century multimedia project. If you have colleagues that are reluctant to use web-based technology in their classrooms, Glogster can be a good first step for them to take...A Great Glogster Tutorial

Innovative Teachers...a global community of educators utilizing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to encourage and foster collaboration among teachers worldwide.

iQuiz Maker is an easy way for you to create custom quizzes for the iQuiz game for the iPod. iQuiz Maker works seamlessly so you can write, create, package your very own quizzes. Download the free application today to begin putting the world to the test. This demo tutorial shows you how to create the quiz

Project Based Learning Forum...Using Web 2.0 and project based learning

Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace ...material on the challenges of teaching and learning online or working as an educator in new technological environments.

Teaching Shakespeare - Explore the Folger’s innovative site for teachers. Each month find postings of new lesson plans and ideas for using the Folger’s collection of primary sources, or search our archive for lessons on specific plays or topics.

VoiceThread...Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting...Ed.VoiceThread...is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices.

WISE: Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment...Free! WISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Our curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging.

Writing Matters is an online portal for language arts digital curriculum, but also a website teachers can use to create and publish student work online for free.