I found bubbl.us to be an effective tool to help the students to brain storm ideas. It's definitely the way to go rather than the old pen and paper method of creating mind maps.
I loved experiementing with glogs. I created a glog about book reviews and i have registered my students so that they can use glogs to present their book reviews in the form of an online poster or web page.... very exciting... I feel like I am really getting into the web 2.0 teaching phase of my career.I hope there are no advertisements that suddenly appear when the students are online...