From: "Susan Tsairi" <tsairi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: audio forums, scrapbooking, wiki, podcasts writely and more I recently found some fairly new websites which I would like to share with you. Vaestro audio forums -take part in asynchronous voice discussions with people worldwide, or open up your own channel for your students. The site is still in beta stage, most of the members seem to be in education and come from The USA, Canada, Italy and China to name but a few. http://www.vaestro.com Scrapblog an excellent tool for online scrapbooking http://www.scrapblog.com Family Jot, a password protected, secure wiki for families or classes. Tools include family blog, photo album, family map, family recipe book, family tree, family calendar. http://www.jot.com/gallery/wiki-life.php Podomatic - your students broadcast to the world http://www.podomatic.com check out what Mrs Caldwell's classes have been doing http://mrscaldwell0.podomatic.com/ Pageflakes is a google type personal start page with a difference, individual pages can be allocated different privacy settings ranging from public viewing only to shared editing with others to private. http://www.pageflakes.com Not new but definitely fun (and a little bit of english) at Flagrantdisregard students can upload photos, add text click a button and create: magazine covers, inspirational posters, baseball cards, signposts, movie posters and more. http://www.flagrantdisregard.com/flickr Last but not least, if anyone would like an invitation for Writely, Google's collaborative, invitation only, web word processor I have 30 invitations left. just mail me at susan59@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.writely.com -------------------------------------------- Visit the ETNI site - http://www.etni.org Send a message to the ETNI list: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------