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Check out my wiki on Web 2.0 Tools to use in your class or in your personal life.

VoiceThread: Add voiceovers, text and doodles to your photos and share them. Excellent and worth checking out! And now you can export it to video!

ScrapBlog: Create video scrapbooks!

Animoto: Forget slideshows. Add your photos to get a very professional looking video!

Diigo: Don’t just bookmark! Highlight the web! Add sticky notes too! Create groups to pool resources for specific projects. Connect with friends/faculty/students effortlessly and non-intrusively through content. Discover quality resources on any subject or get personalized recommendations.

Flowgram: Create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint and more with your voice, notes and highlights.

Glogster: Create online posters using themes, templates etc. for free. (Free registration but no registration needed to try) NEW: Glogster EDU for educators

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. I simply use a screen capture to keep mine. What a great way to save keywords for brainstorms in the classroom. Below is an example.

Aboogy: Bookmark manager (really useful whilst overseas).

PB Wiki: Increase student engagement using a safe online wiki. Create a no-hassle way to showcase students’ work online.

Vi.sualize.us allows you to freely bookmark the pictures you love. I used to always drag photos I liked onto my desktop. Needless to say, they have all accumulated space. With vi.sualize.us they can now all be stored online with the tags you create.

Fotopedia: Just like Wikipedia, it’s a wannabe encyclopedia of photos.

DocStoc: Download legal, business, tech & educational documents. Upload and share your docs with the world.

Skitch: Your friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? … Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email.

Zamzar Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software? Zamzar supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats. Convert those PDFs into Word etc.

ClassTools: Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet

Here is a site that offers Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008.