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Tom's Planner | Gantt Chart Software | Faster than Excel easier

A great tool that allows anyone to create, collaborate (a bonus for teams) and share Gantt Charts online with drag and drop simplicity. It took me around 5 minutes to get to grips with it. subhub.com http://www.tomsplanner.com/
Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting , web, or Twitter , its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews . http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Poll Everywhere

http://www.wordle.net/ 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.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

http://cwr.indiana.edu/

Critical Web Reader > Home

The CWR is a set of easy-to-use online tools designed to help address 21st century teaching and learning challenges. The CWR guides students to carefully and critically evaluate and read any source of information on the Internet. The CWR toolset has a flexible design, enabling teachers across grade levels and subject areas to use the CWR to best meet instructional and learning needs. Since 2005, more than 2,000 students in middle school, secondary school, and university classrooms in the United States, Taiwan, and Singapore have used the CWR to become more skilled and savvy readers of information on the Internet. Please explore this website to learn more about the ways you, your school, college, or university can use the CWR to help students become more strategic and successful learners!