chop-chop

Sometimes you just want to show part of a Youtube video, not the whole thing, but it's fiddly trying to get the timing right. With TUBECHOP you can easily choose when you want a video to start and finish. Just enter the URL (or do a search), select the times and chop - this generates a unique URL and embed code which you can then link to or embedded in a webpage. The link even works with Prezi so it's great for presentations.

number crunch

WOLFRAM ALPHA is an amazing online tool that crunches numbers in ways you previously couldn't imagine, and it's not useful just for science or maths. Use it to work out the nutritional value of your cheese sandwich, compare statistics on different countries, do your algebra homework, find out how many other people have you name or words for your crossword puzzle. There are loads of examples on the site - enjoy!

Pery Interesting

PINTEREST is a visual social network tool that's proving very popular especially with creative types and shopaholics.
It's quite simple - just create a board on a particular theme and add some images that you like (the pin it button is useful for this). People can then comment and/or re-pin the images, making the whole thing very active and social. It's also a great way of discovering new stuff, either by following people or just searching the site.
There are possibilities for education and libraries here too ~ including as a way of recommending books, planning a teaching/reading space, bringing together historical images for a humanities class, collecting recipes for food tech or having a 'library' of Visual Thinking prompts (I see I think I wonder).