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"This group began in 2002 as an event convened under the auspices of TESOL EVOnline (Electronic Village) but has carried on as a community of practice or a distributed learning network ever since. Participants meet informally throughout the year and regularly each Sunday noon GMT at http://www.tappedin.org to help each other learn about forming and maintaining robust online communities through hands-on practice with synchronous and non-synchronous text and multimedia CMC (computer mediated communication) tools."

Google has created a multi-week free online course this summer (2011) as a kind of experiment in mass learning. You can read the discussions, view the videos, and use the resources, incluidng a Diigo group, asynchronously, so hop on board!

Animoto has free educators accounts and you can add up to 50 students as well. This is the equivalent of their upgraded Plus account, which allows you to make and archive longer videos.

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world. On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration.

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world. On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. Contributor: Sulany dos Santos on 05 Feb 10 Scriblink also has chat and video chat simultaneously.

VOA news is a great resource for listening, speaking, writing assignments, reading, et al. Very up-to-the-minute, and live streaming allows for instant listening. Good for teachers' listening practice as well.