In what could turn out to be my worse pick ever for the month. I've decided to highlight a wiki that I started last year. The reason why I do this now is that like most schools, mine is in the process of budgeting for next year and software always is a huge budget line. Why do we continue to spend money on software when so much is open-source and/or free on the web to use?

I've found myself back on this wiki the past couple of weeks looking for free or cheap software that my school can use to save some money. The wiki was started after I moved to Bangkok this year and the school gave me a Mac. The first time I had used one in almost 10 years. I posted a blog post asking the educational community to help finding "Must Have" software for my new computer. Two days later I had more tools than I could store on my machine...that's when it hit me that we needed a place to store all these tools, to share them as we find them.

So I created the wiki at http://wiki.utechtips.com as part of a blog for educators. It has continues to grow with help from the community. If you are in the budgeting process like I am, it might be a good time to stop by and see what other educators recommend for software that is free or cheaper then most traditional software we use in schools. At the same time, if you know of something that isn't on the site...please add it. It is open to the public and I encourage anyone and everyone to add the tools they are using in educational settings.