Although not specifically aimed at education, there are lots of great brain games at Luminosity that would be good to use with gifted and talented kids. 2 million members can't be wrong, right?

Spreeder is a speed reading tool that may have good applications for fluency work with elementary students. You paste a text into a box and set the number of words you would like it to flash up in a minute. Try pasting in some Fry's phrases and let your students practice their high frequency reading words.

EasyDefine comes via Technology Tidbits. This dictionary and thesaurus is lightning fast and easy to use. It even lets you define multiple words, so you can paste in a spelling or vocabulary list and get definitions or synonyms for all.

The award-winning FreeTechnology4Teachers has a link to Wordslike.net. WordsLike.net is a free service that allows you to find words and phrases that are similar or related to each other. Type in a word or a phrase and Words Like.net will come up with a list of related words and their corresponding definitions.

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day has a list of iPhone Apps for Education. So, whether you use the Touch or the iPhone, there are a great selection of apps here that have an educational use.

Finally, are you thinking about creating a class website as part of your New Year's resolutions? Well, you may want to check out my latest article on Using Weebly for Education to Create Classroom Websites and Student Blogs. It has lots of ideas and tips on how to use Weebly for Education.