MentorMob

MentorMob http://www.mentormob.com 
I saw this tool on Joyce Valenza's excellent blog Never Ending Search.
I dislike making step by step instructions, because so often the steps change.  This  tool seems to me  to counteract that  flaw, because it lets the crowd update the instructions, so theoretically if steps change, someone will catch the error and change the instructions, And maybe that someone won't be me :)  I think this may work best with videos, but below I made a step by step lesson plan., which had mostly text instructions

Create your own Playlist on MentorMob!

Classroom Ideas:
 This might work well as a supplement to lesson plans for substitute teachers, especially if  there is much to show from various sources.
This might work well as pathfinder in research projects.  In fact, I am going to try this out.

In chemistry classes, this might be a tool for students to explain specific chemical reactions.

In Math classes, this might work in combination with Kahn Academy.

Zoho Notebook

Zoho Notebook

http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/login.jsp?serviceurl=%2Fnb%2Findex.do

Lots of possibilities here for online notetaking, but I like this idea from Digital Inspiration.

Classroom Idea - Create a pathfinder with notes for a class project.

Have students display note taking skills, or use this to have them justify their online source choices.

Zotero

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ is, well, I don't really have a word for it. Sort of like a file cabinet in your computer for your research. It has tools that let you save webpages, take notes, tag and cluster. I am somewhat overwhelmed, but impressed.

JumpKnowledge

JumpKnowledge http://info.jkn.com/index.htm is a web annotating tool. I dismissed web annotating when I first saw it , because I thought -when will I ever want to annotate the web.



But with just a little thinking out of the box, I am excited by this tool.

Classroom ideas.
1) Have your Spanish language students create a web- trip to a Spanish speaking country, with annotations in the language being learned.

2) Create a mini webquest on any theme.

3) Pathfinders

4) Have your students annotate three or four sources with different political leanings.