- bubbl.us brainstorm online with this free, concept mapping tool
This looked like the graphic organizer program Inspiration that we have at our school. I can see where it could be useful to ELA teachers since they could use it to diagram stories and plot lines. I can see where it could be useful to compare and contrast int Social Studies or again ELA. In math we don't do a lot of comparing or contrasting. Mostly we do stuff on paper with pencils and erasers because that is how math is. Math is hard to type. It takes a lot longer to type math than it does to write it so I don't see myself using this one much in my own professional or personal life. - Zoho Show create, edit and share your presentations online
I signed up for an account and found that is was almost identical to Google Docs. I think it would be redundent to use Zoho and Google Docs. I noticed that Zoho had a built in wiki which is a nice feature. Seems again like something I don't nee though at this point since I already have my pbwikis set up. - Slideshare create, edit and share your presentations anywhere
I signed up for an account and did some looking around. Seemed a lot like YouTube but with PowerPoint type presentations instead of video. I found a few presentations that looked like they had been created by teachers to use in a math class. I didn't find much that would be able to be used without quite a bit of modification but did find some good things. - Remember the Milk create task list, share it, get reminders
Seemed like one more thing I don't need in my life. As it is I have too much technology that doesn't all synch so one more internet organization site would probably just make things worse for my life. - 30 Boxes online calendar
Looked like something that would be a lot like a Google Calendar but once I reached a certain point in the set up my school's firewall blocked me so I was shut down on this one until I could make it home. - LibraryThing personal online bookshelf
Signed up for this one too. Looked cool but I decided not to do too much with it since I already had a virtual bookself from http://www.shelfari.com/ I like the idea of the virtual bookshelf since it gives me a way to share with others what I can currently reading. I just wish it had psychic powers and could know what I have read so I don't have to remember to put something in. I think the hardest part about setting up this kind of account is trying to remember every book you have read in your adult life to get started. - Trailfire create a "trail"of annotated web pages on any subject
I looked here for a while but couldn't actually follow any trails because of the firewall at my school. I hope to put a little more time in on this one once I get home. - Knowtes create a deck of virtual flashcards for study
Looked like something I might look into but again, with math, most of my time is spent doing stuff. I don't give my kids vocabulary quizes so wouldn't need to post vocabulary flashcards and it's hard to make flashcards in math since they would ususally turn out to be a problem on the front and the card and an answer on the back.
In conclusion, I found that there are many useful tools that are intended to give us "Productivity Anywhere You Have a Browser" but that seems to be a problem at my school. My situation seems to be that these tools would give me productivity almost anywhere I have a browser since so many things are blocked by the LAS firewall.
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