Use your voice

Audacity is a fairly intuitive tool for recording and editing digital sound files, with multiple tracks, useful for podcasters and musicians.

Gabcast is a tool for creating podcasts and integrating them with blogs. Its unique feature is it lets students record sound from a touchtone phone.

Skype is a free voice and video conferencing tool. You can even make phone calls from it!

Voicethread is an online media album that allows multiple parties to respond to text, video, and audio files using phone, microphone, telephone, text or video. 

Customize your information experience and network around ideas

PBWiki provides a free, basic web space for educators. Your students can use a common password to share files, collaborate on projects, submit homework, and lots of other stuff. And don't forget about using TLN for creating wikis to share with site members.

Twitter is a connectivity tool: Contacts can “follow” each other through “tweets” about personal updates, news flashes, quick thoughts, etc. Let TLN blogger and technology guru Bill Ferriter explain it to you on his classroom technology wiki.

Trailfire is a half-networking/half-bookmarking tool that lets you mark a trail through related websites and share your trails with other users to streamline your browsing and find helpful resources quickly.

PageFlakes for teachers is a feed reader for news that includes a grade tracker and task list. 

Become an educational news anchor--or bring digital video to your classroom 

TeacherTube is the place to share instructional videos or post clips for students, with supporting files (lesson plans, etc.) attached. The tool also lets you embed video feeds on websites.

If you have videos you'd like to share with the TLN community, feel free to send them to awilliams@teachingquality.org for inclusion in TLN TV.

Share and organize your images

Flickr is a sleek online photo organizing interface that integrates easily with programs like Voicethread.

Wonderful new resource with copyright-friendly images including gorgeous photos, free for use in blogs and other publications:  http://morguefile.com/archive/