PostGenomic.com

From the website:

Postgenomic collates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. For example, it allows you to get an instant picture of which web sites are being heavily linked to by researchers in the medical sciences, or which papers are being cited or reviewed most often by bioinformaticians, or which buzzwords are being used the most frequently by evolutionary biologists. It's sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire biomed blogging community.

This is an interesting, community-driven, way to find the current hottest topics and articles in the Life Sciences -- Totally different from the traditional go-slow approach to academic research publishing!!!

Stickam - Multimedia Blogging Tool

Stickam allows you to post video, photos and audio on most any blog page. It also allows live video chatting. Still in beta at the time of this writing, I think it could be a good (and free up to 500MB) teaching tool, though you would need to send your students to a blog page. Check it out!

Vyew.com - Free online meeting tool

This is a free online collaborative meeting tool. It allows you to share images and captured webpages on your desktop with others who you invite by email to your meeting. You can text message each other and write/draw directly on the images. Voice conference requires use of a telephone -- which is not free. Snapshots of session screens can be saved to disk.

TeachLearning.com Online Curriculum Hot List

This is a huge list of online resources for K-12 teaching. I am sure that there are some innovative Web 2.0 resources here, but since I am not a K-12 teacher, I will have to rely on others to let me know which of these stand out. The links are divided into the following categories:

* The Arts
* Language Arts and Literature
* Mathematics
* Science
* Social Studies
* Media Literacy
* Physical Education
* Special Education
* Girls and Technology
* General Curriculum Resources
* Online Projects
* Software Reviews

The homepage TeachLearning.com has a lot of teacher resources, but requires registration to see most of them. The site also has a lot of very annoying advertisements!!!!