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Yes, facebook is a great site!  I have been able to find and be found from everyone from long lost family members to old friends to new ones.  It's a great place to connect with classmates, to check up on homework due dates, too.  For some reason asking for someone to befriend on facebook isn't as forward as asking for their phone number and vice versa.  Myspace was the site I originally signed up for a few years ago and was hooked after a while.  I like facebook a bit more these days because it just seems slightly more professional.

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Del.icio.us
is yet another great tool to store or bookmark great finds on the web.  I found some really great Ted talks off of www.ted.com and was able to bookmark them in delicious and on www.cnn.com, where I initially found them.  In another class I had a presentation where the video clip didn't come through on my powerpoint and delicious saved me by making it possible for me to access those "talks" quickly.  During mid-presentation I was able to quickly search and find it for the class I was speaking to.  Thank goodness for this site!

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Got Organized?   Check.

iGoogle is my new favorite homepage.  It's pleasing to the eye and it's there in the cloud of the web for me to access from any location that has internet.  Pageflakes was very cool too and I love the little calendar that is included.  Calendars are have taken on a new level of importance in my life these days.  With so many deadlines to remember and with so much to do, it is so nice to be able to focus on more of the important things than to carry around a bulky organizer.  These are all wonderful tools that are anywhere my laptop can go.  Stickies are another must have for me. I'm a such a sucker for cute little things like post notes.

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Wiki's are a time saving way for people who have similar interests to keep building and sharing information about common interests.  This is beneficial because for some wiki's like the wiki educator site.  These were all great sources of testimonies made by people and a good example of learning from others mistakes and taking their advice.

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Flowchart.com is an interesting site that could be used in a visual arts classroom to demonstrate color wheels, color theory, and other sorts of visual explanations.  The mindmap I tried the mindmeister and the bubbl.us site.  Of the two I really enjoyed the bubbl.us site.  It just seemed easier (for me) to read and grasp.  However, I understand there are various types of learners but I think the later is more of a traditional type of brain storming or mind mapping, therefore making it more familiar.

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For this thing I set up my free online account for Zoho Writer.  This site will make life much easier and boy, did I wish I knew about this before!  In the past I have lost jump drives, emails, and word documents completely.  Had I known about Zoho Writer before I could have saved myself a lot of heart ache.  Although I will continue using my jump drive, it will be a comfort to know that I can use Zoho as yet another back-up.  Having these sorts of resources set my mind at ease.

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This is a wonderful tool for a busy teacher.  For no fees, unlike other calender sync services, I can keep track of all my calenders for no charge.  This is so very helpful if I forget my laptop, notebook, etc. in the morning.

http://www.google.com/calendar/render

I enjoy Google's is iGoogle and Adsense (I've made $0.46!) Again, it just makes sense to take advantage of all the different doodads Google has to offer.  Hey if I can make some extra change and do some homework at the same time, I am a happy girl.  Google is for the multi-tasker and one thing is for sure in today's world is that you have to be able to juggle in order to keep up.