"Paltalk is the total Internet communications solution that combines the best of a instant messaging and internet telephony. Paltalk offers a wide range of features that allows users to communicate with each other anywhere in the world at any time - all for free."

ICQ is user-friendly Internet tool that alerts you with who's on-line at any time and lets you contact them in real time. ICQ alerts you in real time when people log on. ICQ can conduct a directory search each time you want to communicate with a specific person.

"Lesson Plan Locker is a shareware program that gives teachers the ability to share lesson plans with other teachers around the globe. Has the following features: Save weekly planners in Excel or Word format. Searches the internet for lesson plans and loads them directly into weekly planner. Open multiple planners at once for easy copying and pasting of old weeks. Required Microsoft Office."

"The Gab-Stopper is an audio monitoring and feedback tool designed to help children (grades K-12) function quietly in the classroom. Using brightly colored graphics, Gab-Stopper provides easy feedback in the form of a standard traffic light. Green indicates acceptable voice levels; yellow means warning and indicates increasing voice levels; red means alert and indicates sound levels are unacceptable. Optional warning and alert sounds can be played on the computer to remind young ones to settle down. As an incentive, Gab-Stopper provides an automatic score indicator ranging from 0 to 100. If voice levels are kept low, the score increases. If voice levels rise, the score decreases."