This page gathers together resources for instructional technology, including professional organizations, Web 2.0 tools, and software that I have found useful as both a student of instructional technology and as a teacher. You can also find software needed to view content on this site. You can download an Excel spreadsheet of my resources collected in Education and the Web and find many of my favorite resources gathered at my Diigo account.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
• Georgia Association for Instructional Technology (GAIT)

WEB 2.0 TOOLS

• Wikispaces: Wiki host
• PBWorks: Wiki host
• Weebly: Blog host
• Edublogs: Blog host
• Blogger: Blog host
• WordPress: Blog host
• Posterous: Blog host
• Glogster: Multimedia creations
• Podomatic: Podcast host
• Diigo: Social bookmarking
• Delicious: Social bookmarking
• Twitter: Social networking
• Ning: Social networking
• VoiceThread: Audiovisual presentations
• Slideshare: Presentations
• Prezi: Presentations
• Scribd: Document host
• LiveBinders: Bookmarking, note-taking, and document host
• Issuu: Document host
• Evernote: Note-taking
• Jog the Web: Bookmarking
• YouTube: Video host
• Teacher Tube: Video host
• Flickr: Photo host
• Wordle: Word clouds
• Tagxedo: Word clouds
• GoAnimate: Animated stories
• Quibblo: Quiz maker
• Survey Monkey: Surveys
• Engrade: Grade book
• Internet Archive: Books, audio, video, and cached websites

SOFTWARE

• Curio: Note-taking and project planning
• Comic Life: Comic creator
• Inspiration: Planning
• Tweetdeck: Twitter client
• Seesmic Desktop: Twitter client
• Cyberduck: FTP software
• Audacity: Audio recording and editing
• Firefox: Web browser
• Flock: Web browser
• Google Chrome: Web browser
• Gimp: Image editor
• Google Earth: Maps and geography
• Things: To-do
• Planbook: Lesson planner
• VLC Media Player: Video player
• Quicktime: Video player
• Google Docs: Document editor and viewer
• Microsoft Word Viewer : Document reader
• Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer: Presentation viewer.
• Microsoft Excel Viewer: Spreadsheet viewer
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: Document reader
• Adobe Flash Player: Cross-platform browser-based application.