Google Earth
I was unable to download this as my C drive is full (gotta love technology), however I do remember having had played around with this before. I personally used it to look up a house that I was considering renting at the time. Google Earth allowed me to know exactly where it was in realation to the landmarks around which in time made it easier for me to find the house. This would be great to use in a class room when looking at the places we live - each child would be given a chance to type in their home address and show us around their place. This could then go on to explore different types of houses and different types of land (residential vs a property. one story vs two story). This could then be related into where different animals live and the children could then explore the different places animals are found.
Wikipedia
After a bit of a play around in wiki, I forgot that it was an encyclopedia and was trying to search all sorts of things and not coming up with much. But the children would be able to type in their topic, Australia for example and it comes up with history, culture, basically a wide variety of different things for them to explore and understand.
SlideShare
This sounds like an excellent tool, this would be great for teachers to use to update a slideshow they wish to show to their class and also make it available to them afterwards on an online blog. Although I did not have a slideshow to upload and have a play around with, this sounds like a great tool.
Music on the Web
Love this. Its great. The main thing that stuck out to me was that you could search by genre and feelings. This would work great in a childcare setting as you can/could download peaceful music to allow them to go to sleep. Thats my childcare roots showing. Although I am coming up blanks on how to encorporate this into younger school at the moment, I do have an idea that children would be able to download music and do a performance to it wether it be for a music subject or just a normal oral presentation.
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