Tools

• Blackboard / WebCT - online class management systems. $ (see Moodle)
• Blogs - online journals that invite readers' comments

  Example:  EduBlogs: "Blogging for Teachers and Students Made Easy"

• www.blogcatalog.com/  Directory of blogs

• De.licio.us  / FURL- social bookmarking 
• Diigo - social bookmarking and more: collaborative sharing of web sites 
• Drop.IO - private file sharing by phone, email, web, widge or fax.
• Flickr - photo sharing web site (try a search for Sturbridge Village) 
• Google Docs - real time collaborative word processor and spreadsheet 
• LibraryThing - cataloging your library online & sharing it 
• Mapping - Google Earth
• Moodle - online classes free - Nancy's
• Ning - create your own social network.  For example Tech4 Maine
• Podcasting - a method of publishing audio and movie files to the Internet. RRS fed allows contect to move directly to the user.
• RSS - subscribing to web sites e.g. Bloglines - used to gather various blog postings to one page
• Second Life - multiuser virtual environment 

• Skype - free audio (telephoning) on the Internet

• Ten minute email (allows you to register online, giving an email address that only exists for 10 minutes. NOT a good idea if you want to have your password reset!) 
• Tumblr - freely available, online scrapbook 
• Twitter - for posting text snippets or sending text to cell phones. Who do you follow? 
• Voice Thread - Interactive voice, video or text.
• WIKIS - PB Wiki - Wikispaces - website with user editors, collaborative authoring
• YouTube/SchoolTube/TeacherTube - Download Helper- Flash Player Mac - PC