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An excellent web based email client with huge storage capacity (presently over 2.5GB) that can act as your main email client, or can receive e-mail forwarded from your current POP email account as an e-mail backup tool. Actively links into Google Talk (an open source instant messenger tool). (Limited number of invitations for gmail accounts available for Eastern Region Forum applicants.)

http://mail.google.com

Yahoo! Mail beta

An excellent revised web based email client with reasonable storage capacity (presently 1gb) that can act as your main email client, or can receive email forwarded from your current POP email account as an email backup tool. Integrates very well with Yahoo Calendar, Contacts and Notepad (all similar to their Google counterparts). Also has Intellisync software to actively synchronise your home/college Outlook with Yahoo.

http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Chat Creator online chat forums

Create your own online chat room on the fly, and simply share the web address to the students or staff you want to chat with. Then start typing to chat!.

http://www.chatcreator.com

Blogger

A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly
post thoughts, interact with students, staff or the wider world, and more. You could add daily or weekly entries about the courses you teach, have feedback through comments to each entry, add links to internet content, etc. In fact you could extend it to having a class blog where students reflect on their learning together.

http://www.blogger.com

Thumbstacks

With Thumbstacks.com, you can make presentations - like slideshows, or outlines - right in your web browser. When you're done, you can share your presentations with anyone, anywhere, just by sending them a link. This is alpha software so expect changes as it develops and not everything may work yet - it is very new.

http://thumbstacks.com