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In the 21st Century, it's important to have a suite of tools that increase your capacity to manage your digital world as well as contribute to it. Pick and choose from the following tools to build your own personal digital infrastructure (PDI).

 

FILE STORAGE/TRANSFER

 

NEW: Box.net | I GB for free with RSS feeds, now that rocks.

Yousendit | need to send a large file that is too large for email? Use yousendit to deliver files up to 1GB in size. (free)

Breifcase | need to store your files online? Use this free service from Yahoo!

 

BUILDING ONLINE CURRICULUM

Myprojectpages.com| build six different types of online learning activities. Type and submit Wizard card interface.

PiNet Library | David Warlick

HPRTEC | oldies but goodies

Filamentality | the first, I think

 

ONLINE PRESENTATION SOFTWARE

NEW: Thumbstacks.com | create your own PowerPoint-like presentation right online. Cool.

 

BLOGS: in no particular order

Blogger | Blogmeister | LiveJournal | Kidzlog (not free)

NEW: Talkr | podcast your text blog entries, converts your text blog to voice.

 

AUDIOBLOGS, VIDEOBLOGS AND PODCASTING

Audioblog.com | costs one lunch a month for all this capability.

NEW: Odeo | podcasting in 4 minutes, record right into your browser with is pretty amazing

NEW: Slidestory: online simple digital stories and podcasting.

 

WIKIS

SeedWiki | couple of wiki pages for free to get to know the technology.

Editme | pay basically 5 bucks a month to get your wiki

pbWiki | peanut butter wiki: make a free, password protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich.

 

SOCIAL BOOKMARK MANAGERS

del.icio.us | collect your bookmarks, organize by tags and share by RSS. That's the new way.

Absolutely deli.icio.us Complete Tool Collection

Spurl | same thing, basically. You decide which one you like.

 

WEB PAGE CLIPPING AND SHARING

Furl | clip Web pages, organize by tags and publish what you clip through an RSS feed into people's aggregators. Cool.

 

AGGREGATORS

Bloglines | collect your RSS feeds with this online aggregator.

 

CRITICAL THINKING TOOLS

Visual Ranking (from Intel Teach to the Future): online tool for analyzing and prioritorizing information.

Seeing Reason (from Intel again): Mindful mapping of cause and effect

 

CALENDARS

RSSCalendar | Create your calendar and publish it through an RSS feed. Would be very cool for teachers.

 

PHOTOSHARING

Flickr | the industry standard, in my opinion.

 

DIGITAL STORYTELLING PLATFORMS

imovieHD | macintosh

moviemaker2 | photostory 3 | pc

 

COLLABORATION TOOLS | for posting digital content

digitalstories.org | upload student digital stories

Ourmedia | online hosting for everything digital

 

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

NEW YackPack | stay in touch with everyone, how cool is this

 

COPYRIGHT | CHECKING FOR PLAGIARISM | of your published online work

Creative Commons | emerging methodology for licensing online content

Copyscape | see who is stealing your stuff. Tell them to quit it.

Check out these examples | my original work | plagiarized 1 | plagiarized 2

 

WEB CLIPPING

eSNIPS: clip, store, and share components of Web pages

Net Snippets: online information manager, clips as well

 

CITATION TOOLS

The Citation Machine

Easybib

 

PDF CREATION

PDF Online | create PDF documents for free that are emailed to you. Maximum 2 MB in size.