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Online directory of educators interested in collaborating via Skype instant messaging and video conferencing. Good way to organize collaboration with classrooms around the world, invite in guest presenters, receive/provide assistance, support and professional development.

Pratham Vision Collaborative project management system company is a method used to plan, coordinate, control, and monitor distributed and complex projects. It enables project experts teams to collaborate across departmental, corporate, and national boundaries and to master growing project complexity.

Create an online magazine. Collaborate with friends. An alternative to blogging. Possible classroom connections -Practice the writing process. -Alternative strategy for book reports and research papers/ presentations. -Role play a newspaper bureau or magazine publisher. -Fund raising. -Spotlight a cause.

Collaborate on a story, poem, or other literature as well as providing feedback. Then publish your writing.

An initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."

Guidelines for safe and effective blogging in education.

Poll students for FREE from landline or cell phones

These are web applications that let you create private (or public, though for educational uses I'm primarily interested in ones that allow you to create "walled gardens") networks to share blog posts, images, videos, websites, and chatboard conversations.

Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.

Looking to create, build and keep resources for people using http://voicethread.com in their classrooms.

Create your own virtual world with 3D images.

Virtual Classroom for online teaching and learning.

Inspiration software now on the web. Create your own mindmapping projects.

Consumers and knowledge workers now have the power of a relational database, combined with a user interface that is easier than a spreadsheet. Sharing blists online is simple.