Today I joined up with the folks over at Classroom 2.0. There are lots of great ideas there for using technology in education, so if you haven't already joined up, then I would definitely recommend it. Today's review contains some new material I dug up while going through the forum at Classroom 2.0.

No PowerPoint? No problem. Check out 280slides.com where you can create and share presentations for free, or download as a PowerPoint file.

Yet more mind mapping can be done over at bubbl.us. If the sites DropMind and Webspiration are not enough for you, then you might as well try bubbl.us. There seems to be no shortage of mind mapping tools just now. Everybody is doing it...

Now here is something for everyone, Commoncraft. At Commoncraft, they take a variety of subjects in technology, money, society and the environment, and explain them in plain English via a nicely animated video. Want to explain to your kids what insurance is? This will do it. Want to tell another teacher what Twitter is? This will also do that.

Finally, I know it has been around for a while, but I wanted to mention it to anyone that has not seen it. Glogster EDU lets you create interactive online posters with your students. They can be private or shared. Initially there were a few loopholes with the education accounts in terms of monitoring and privacy, but that seems to have been sorted out with some recent updates.