Putting it Out There: Technology gives us ways to share like never before. Here are some ways to share information with your students, or have them share with each other.

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• Set up your Moodle course.
• Record your screen to help students by using Jing, or share your screen live using Join.me.
• Share or embed presentations using Slideshare.
• Blog it with Wordpress (Hampshire-hosted blogs available) or Blogger.
• Create a zooming, non-linear, online, sharable presentation with Prezi.
• Publish documents online with Scribd.
• Illustrate ideas or workflows with SimpleDiagrams.
• Publish or share documents with Google Docs.

Get Organized: Your class, your files, your life!

• Try Evernote for simple note keeping. Your notes will live on your computer, online, AND on whatever mobile device you choose.
• Dropbox is a great tool for moving files between your computers and devices. You can also set up public dropboxes for sharing files with your students, or use the Dropittome add-on to receive files from them (or anyone).
• Picasa is a great tool for organizing photos and sharing them online.
• Wunderlist lets you keep an online to-do list, syncable between multiple computers/devices and sharable with others.

Collaborate! Have students work together for a truly constructivist learning experience.

• Google Docs! 80% of our students are on it already. You can create office-type documents and work on them together, "live" at the same time, or separately.
• Create a narrated video or slideshow with Voicethread: students can record their comments, comment on someone else's narrative, etc. Contact Asha Kinney to get set up with a Voice Thread account, or try the free version.
• Have students create a Wiki of their collective knowledge on your course's subject. This can be done within Moodle, or with an outside tool like Wikispaces or even Google sites.
• Work together on an online "whiteboard" using Cosketch.com .
  
• Keep a class or project-specific online bulletin board with Corkboard.me .
  

Gathering Information

• Get a Twitter account to connect with friends, colleagues, news agencies, organizations.
• Use a bookmarking service like Diigo to organize your weblinks or share collections of links with students (Diigo has free educator accounts: just apply).
• Use Google Reader or similar RSS reader to subscribe to blogs or websites.
• Wikipedia: If you find something incorrect, fix it!
• Google Earth: Explore the planet from your classroom.
• Zotero is a powerful tool for organizing research and keeping track of citations.
• Readitlater lets you save articles or web pages... to read... later!
• Google: Explore some of the less-used search options such as the timeline or wonder wheel.
• You can find copyright-free or creative-commons licensed content to re-use and re-cycle on Archive.org, Youtube, and Flickr. 

Social Networking: Connect with your students "where they live".

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+ (ask Asha if you want an invite)

Sharing, Creating, Editing Images:

• Create a file directory or lightbox gallery in Moodle to show students a group of images.
• Create a collection in Flickr to share publicly or only with certain people. Flickr slideshows can be embedded in Moodle!
• Again, Picasa is a nice tool for organizing photos on your computer, online, and also for sharing photos.
• Picnik lets you edit and enhance photos, all on the web. It has some goofy features but some useful ones as well.
• Gimp is basically free, open-source Photoshop.

Sharing, Creating, Editing Video:

• Youtube. Also, Vimeo for longer videos. Students can put their work up on these sites and just send you the link, vs. uploading large files to Moodle. Youtube even has online-editing capabilities now. You can embed videos into Moodle.
• Collect "fair-use" snippets from movies using Handbrake, VLC, or MPEG Streamclip.
• Use Animoto to easily create slick music-video type productions with zero effort.
• Create "mashups" with video and audio from web media using DragOnTape.
• Photofly claims to make 3-D models out of 2-D images. For free! On the web!
• Download and archive online video using Zamzar. Keep within copyright law, please!

Working with Audio

• Audacity is a free, versatile tool for editing audio.
• Vocaroo lets students easily record and share voice messages.

Open Educational Resources: Why re-invent the wheel? More and more schools and scholars are putting their content and curriculum out there for the general public to enjoy.

• iTunes U
• Open Courseware
• Merlot
• TED talks
• Open textbooks
• MOOCs (massive open online courses)