Add some interactivity to your student blogs by introducing them to Vorbeo. This nifty polling site was originally posted on MakeUseOf.com. This quick and easy poll creator requires no registration or technical expertise. Simple but effective.

Another blog tool to consider is embedit.in. This handy site lets you upload a file and embed it in your blog with ease. You can embed files up to 20mb, of text, image or HTML format.  Well worth a look.

DE Tools shares a link to 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School. Some are less tricks and more about telling you what services and tools Google offers, but I defy you to say you have heard of all of these!

SimpleK12 has a list of Virtual Field Trips that you may be interested in exploring. They are organized by category and cover a wealth of curricular topics.

Finally Kevin Jarrett at NCS Tech points out JamStudio.com, which he describes as an online Garage Band. Compose, mix, and remix music to use for presentations, videos or more. It can be as easy or as complicated as your talent allows.

Also available is the US Govt. online safety guide called OnGuard Online. Practical tips to prevent online fraud, or security breaches. There are some very well produced interactive games here that could be suitable for use with children.

Splashup offers two free online photo editors: Splashup and Splashup Light. The Light version is the more user friendly version, while the original version has more pro editing features. Both versions have Facebook, Smugmug, Picassa and Photobucket integration.

The Times newspaper in the UK has published what it thinks are the 10 Best Educational Websites. Most you may have heard of, but there are a couple of new ones to me like ARKive.

Does your school allow Facebook access at school? Better still, does your school embrace the functionality and use of Facebook? If so, the following article may be useful for you. MakeUseOf.com has a Simple Guide to Set Up Your School on Facebook.

Jane Hart is compiling the Top 100 Tools for Educators in 2009. Browse through the list, vote for your favorites, or email her the ones you think should be on the list. Whichever you choose to do, you should probably bookmark it like I did because it is constantly being updated with votes and new sites.

Finally, Technology Tidbits points us to the Museum Box homepage. This curious project allows students to collect a variety of media about an individual and put it in a virtual museum box for others to view or comment on. If you register your school, you can view and approve any work the students add to their boxes. Check out their video introduction to learn more.

I will start with an iLearn special! There has been so many great posts over at iLearn Technology that I thought I would group them all together for you. Big Universe lets you read, create and share children's books online. It is aimed at K-8 and has a number of writing tools and inspirational ideas to use with your class. The Discovery Channel has a virtual tour of Planet Earth that you can take via Google Earth. You need Google Earth to run this. Take part in a virtual Dinosaur Dig with the National Museum of Natural History. Live the  (virtual) life of a paleontologist. Rounding up the last of iLearn's offerings is Inkless Tales. A variety of fun games, poems, stories and more. Aimed at elementary kids.

TimeToast timelines is a useful timeline tool that lets you annotate various events that you add to your timeline. Sign up is free and you can share them online.

Here is a great post! Richard Byrne has listed 35+ Educational Games and Resources. There is a huge number of activities here, many of which I have not heard of, so check it out and see what is new to you. Make learning fun.

More internet safety resources for parents, educators and students can be found at iKeepSafe. These books, movies and activities all provide useful information to ensure safe surfing.

Finally, create your own superhero comics and books online with Marvel. Create 1-3 panel comic strips or books up to 21 pages. Choose from a variety of Marvel characters to enhance the feel of your own superhero comic.

I got an email from BrainPop yesterday. "As schools prepare for the possibilities of illness-related absences and disruptions to studies, (from H1N1), we'd like to help. We're offering all schools two weeks of complimentary remote access to all BrainPOP resources during school hours (7 am-5:30 pm local time)." Follow this link if you would like to take advantage of this offer. It includes BrainPop and BrainPop Jr.

Angela Maiers has two interesting links. One is to Creaza which has a cartoon, movie and audio editor suite online. A truly useful selection of tools that are all in one place. And, speaking of useful tools, she also links to a wiki called indespensible tools - and it does exactly what it says on the tin! Another wiki list of tools for educators to use or add to.

The Kent ICT Blog has a link to a new technology e-saftey checklist from BECTA that you may want to use in your class. It also has a parents guide to using the internet from Vodafone.

Larry Ferlazzo links to HowToons, a site that has how-to guides in cartoon and video format. They are an offshoot of the popular Instructables website.

Finally, the always useful MakeUseOf.com has two good posts for educators. First up are The Best Websites for Free Clipart Downloads. Also useful is The 5 Best Websites for Space and Astronomy, especially if you are doing any space related topics in Science.

Here are a couple more comic strip sites to add to your collection that come via Ollie Bray. The first is Comicbrush, which comes complete with several character packs to choose from, and the other is Pixton, which offers free accounts, but also secure payment based school accounts.

Dan Veltri, the co-founder of Weebly, has a couple of tutorial videos online if you would like to learn more about how to use a website with Weebly for Education. The first is a 75 minute webinar from Classroom 2.0 that discusses all aspects of Weebly for Education and a little about what the future holds. The second video is a six minute tutorial on the basics of site design.

21st Century Teaching has an interesting article that has Ideas for Photostory 3 Projects. Find some new inspiration here on how to use Microsoft's free and easy to use slideshow software.

Finally, this is a useful pageflakes page by a teacher who has set up a collection of Smart Board resources. Not all are specific to Smart Boards, so could be used on other interactive whiteboards too.

NCS Tech has a link to some great interactive sites at the Utah Education Network for grades K-2, 3-6, and 7-12. Each section is sub divided by subject and contains a variety of activities idea for interactive whiteboards.

Another good interactive whiteboard activity is Rhyme Race, as posted by iLearn. Rhyme Race is geared at K-2 and is set up like an interactive board game, complete with dice and activity cards. Good fun.

Artists with a sense of humor may want to try Mr. Picassohead. Create your own virtual Picasso portraits as simply as you would create your own Mr. Potatohead

Visual learners learn best when they are shown how to do something. Try the award winning Teacher Training Videos with your staff to get them up to date with all the latest and greatest technologies found in the modern classroom.

Finally, with numerous iPod Touch devices working their way into classrooms, why not check out 100 Ways to use your iPod to Learn and Study Better. Here there are a collection of articles on using iPods for learning.

Netvibes is a web personalization site that lets you create a personalized homepage, a bit like an iGoogle page. You can add feeds, widgets, social media and more to make it your own. Interestingly, you can also have a public page that you can share with others. With some imagination, you could make a useful interactive page for students to access.

If you have not yet subscribed to the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, you should really check it out because it has a wealth of great tips and news. Currently Vicki has a great post on Making the Case for Cell Phones in Schools. I am convinced that one day we will look back and think 'Why did we not do something like this sooner?' Here is your big chance...

A new blog to me is Ollie Bray's blog. Ollie works currently works for Learning and Teaching Scotland and has some great ideas to share. Click through to see the Free Tools for Teachers post that he presented at a recent conference. You may also enjoy his Social Media in Schools presentation from the same conference. It has useful examples of how social media can be used in schools.

Here is a link to a Podcasting tutorial. If you are thinking about podcasting your ideas then check out How to Podcast: Four Basic Steps for more information.

The University of Melbourne has just published a handbook on Educating the Net Generation. I will not profess to have read the whole thing yet, but the executive summary certainly made it sound like it is worth taking the time to read the results of their study. Click here to read the full report.

Finally, learning should be fun, and here's why! (Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for posting this).

Ideas to Inspire is a website I came across by accident today. It is basically an ideas site for how to use technology in the classroom. There are slides and resources that could appeal to all age groups. It is created by Mark Warner, the founder of www.teachingideas.co.uk.

CNet News reports that Adobe has released a free photoshop app for iPhones. Several teachers use iPod Touches in the classroom, so this may be an extra useful app to add to your collections, especially as it is free!

Angela Maiers has a link to 99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators. Not all of them are strictly education focused, but most have educational purposes. Worth a look.

Check out this Google Docs file called Web 2.0 and Why. It has a list of new web 2.0 tools for educators and simple suggestions on how to use them. It is a work in progress with more being added, so check back and see what has been added, or join the collaboration.

Larry Ferlazzo has a link to Take on the Teacher. It is a spelling game from Scholastic UK. The possibility exists of some UK/US spelling variations, but for the most part I could not find any.

Finally, FreeTechnology4Teachers has a review of Musopen. It is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) classical music. Check out Beethoven's 5th here.

Kidipede is an online History and Science encyclopedia that is aimed at middle school kids. I came across it today while looking for a student friendly definition of the Bill of Rights, and it nailed it! The article was even better than the one in our  4th Grade Social Studies books, so I put it up on the projector for all to see. It is an ad supported site, (you can go ad free for 99c a week), but it looked fine in Firefox with Ad Block Plus.

BrainFlips is doing the rounds with a lot of sites. Richard Byrne has just one of several reviews I have seen. It is an interactive flash card site where you can make your own, or try out some of the user generated cards. Worth a look.

MakeUseOf.com has 3 reasons why students should be using Dropbox. There are probably a dozen or more reasons to use Dropbox with students, but these are a good 3 to start with. If you want to sign up with Dropbox, the free online sync and backup tool, click here to got o the site. As reported recently, it is also available for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Some great student blogging tips can be found here. The Edublogger recently had a competition to find the best tips, and these were the winners. If you are exploring student blogging you should check out the good advice and tips offered here.

Posterous makes blogging as easy as sending an email. While it may not be the best tool to host and monitor student blogs, it could easily be used as a class blog. All you do write what you want to post in an email and send it to Posterous. It is then posted online. You can email video files, mp3s, or photos and it will convert them all to your blog. No need to register, but if you do, it is free and you get options like password protection.

KidsClick is owned and run by the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University. It is like a safe search engine for kids. Enter your search terms and then scroll through the alphabetized results.

Lifehacker has posted the Top 10 Collaboration Tools (that aren't Google Wave). Here you will find ten ways to collaborate with other staff or students online. What's Google Wave? Click here for more info.

I came across Viddix on Classroom 2.0. It gives you the chance to mix video and web content together. You can have a message running along side your video, or links and pictures. It is kind of hard to explain but luckily there are two good tutorials here and here that will fill you in.

Some of may be familiar with Xtranormal's online animation studio tools. If not, follow this link for a sample. Recently they also released STATE into beta. It is a download for Windows, but gives much more control over the web based version and allows you to make your characters move from place to place, while still following the script you write for them.