There are several applications that would benefit students, but the online 'office' packages would be especially useful. Since there are student computers all over campus, these applications would make it easy for students to grab the closest computer and work on papers or presentations without worrying about software. If there is an internet connection the paper is available.
The Zotero Firefox extension looks like it would be useful as well. I use Scrapbook (another Firefox extension) to save web pages to view when I don't have an internet connection available, but Scrapbook doesn't capture citation information or integrate with Word. Scrapbook will capture all links to a page down as many levels as you want to go, but that sometimes adds up to a huge number of page captures. If they would let you chose just the links you want to capture that would be more useful. There are many other Firefox extensions that may also be useful to students, including one that renders web pages as IE if they don't view properly in Firefox.
The "annotate the web" items could also be useful to students doing research papers. They can flag items they want to use, bookmark them in del.icio.us with a tag for the class they're writing the paper for and bingo, everything is easy to find when they start writing. Whay wasn't college this easy when I went?
Even the survey sites like Survey Monkey, Floorplanner and Google Sketchup could be useful for students in certain disciplines, but probably not across the student body like wikis, online 'office' packages and extensions.
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