Weebly for Education (education.weebly.com) is free and allows teachers to easily create class websites and blogs. Students can also be added to class accounts in order to develop e-portfolios or to publish website assigned projects. To build a website simply drag and drop desired content elements on to your page, things like text, photos, maps, and videos. At any time you can change the theme, add pages, RSS feeds, a blog page, forms, surveys and more from the multitude of readymade fields. Hierarchy can be added to the pages by dragging the page tab left or right then back on the home screen, the page will appear under a page heading or alongside the main elements. When you’re ready, publish your creation. You can even publish to your own domain if you already have one.

Animaps (animaps.com) extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you add animation. You can add text, multiple location stops, and images. Maps that you make can be shared. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video – they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!

Everyone has sounds to share and now you can do just that with SoundCloud (soundcloud.com). Use the site to record a sound, voice or music, or upload audio you’ve already created. Then share them privately with your friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks.

Add voice, sketches and live zooming to pictures with Skqueak (skqueak.com). Every picture has a story and you can use this app to explain the meaning or what’s behind a specific image. It could be a great addition to a school projects, making otherwise unnoticed images, really stand out.

A great way to save your articles for later, Pocket (getpocket.com) allows you to save all your content for reading offline. Not only that, it also enables you to save video, images and websites. You can integrate Pocket with Twitter, search saved content with tags, and ‘favourite’ specific content you've saved.

Kidblog (kidblog.org) is a blogging platform designed specifically for kids to use. Its stated aim is to be a simple, safe and secure blogging option. Kidblog doesn’t have advertising, doesn’t require kids’ email addresses, and gives the teacher full moderation power. It has easy login and a simple design so uses “spend less time fussing with widgets/options and more time publishing”. Teachers create a class of blogs, and can control how private they want blogs to be, from student-and-teacher only, to allowing parents to login with a password, to making them open to the public. There’s also a support section to assist your use of the service.

RealtimeBoard (realtimeboard.com) is an online whiteboard. Simply create your page and start using it. You can add images to the File Tab from your computer or the web, then drag and drop to the page as required. There’s a selection of mark-up tools to draw, change colours, and add text and make sticky notes. Choose the public setting if you want everyone to view your board; or private if you want to work alone or collaborate with selected people – who can be allowed to edit and leave comments, or just view. It’s also possible to create the information on the page into a presentation.

Educreations (educreations.com) is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce a video that you can share online. You can create the video through your browser or by using the tool’s iPad app (unfortunately there’s no Android or Windows versions yet). Easily upload images from your computer and switch between whiteboard screens. Once you’re done, set the necessary public/private level. Each lesson has a unique URL you can share, or click on the ‘Students’ tab to provide a link for your students to be able to find your course. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons online. Alternatively browse some of the lessons that others have created in the site’s public directory.

Wridea (wridea.com) is an online idea management, brainstorming and collaboration tool. It's a place to organise, develop and improve, and store your ideas. Write them on the website or, if you find yourself on the move, you can send your Wridea account an email with your thoughts. You can categorise your ideas under different pages and colour codes based on their topics, or search for your ideas for common themes. A key part of the service is also collaboration and you can share ideas with others for their input and comments (although they must be members of the service).

Szoter (szoter.com) is a tool for annotating images. Simply load the picture you want to annotate and take a screenshot. Now draw on and add text to the image. You can add lines, rectangles, circles, and arrows, or sketch any shape. It can be scaled, cropped and rotated, and colours, outlines and size can all be adjusted. When you’re done save the image to your computer or share through your social network(s) of choice. You can use Szoter on the web or download the Adobe Air version of it to run on your desktop.