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create your blog and have access to a set of tools including the "Hot Page" which showcases popular blog entries and the use of AJAX to lessen load time

Technorati, a mashup of th words technology and literati, is a search engine designed specifically for searing blogs. Basically, it tracks and links to the top blogs, posts, and tags. The site also has many channels which feature columns that cover specific niches of the blogosphere and news. The service uses and contributes to open source software.

Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, social networks, blogs, and message boards into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that's so easy to use, anyone can participate.

Blogger is an easy site to use for setting up a blog. You can link just about anything to it and it can be linked to websites, facebook, or other social media very easily.

Teachers are able to set up blogs for their students in a safe environment so their students can blog about anything.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

In this tutorial we illustrate how to build a very cool button ideal for your web 2.0 website or blog. The steps are very simple and in less the 10 minutes you can obtain the graphics in the above images.

The format is just like Facebook, but it offers blogs, adding courses you teach, grades, allows comments on each students, tracks attendance, etc. Great tool to use as a teacher or school administrator.

I would use Tumblr in my classroom as a platform where my posts would be the primary source and students would be requested to add a post to my initial post after every class with any questions, comments or concerns they had about the lesson. This would be an integral part of the classroom which would be introduced on the first day of class and would be followed throughout the duration of the classroom. Responses to the posts would be factored in to the student's final grade.

Mainly for businesses, but schools can create virtual classrooms, maintain calendars, assignment deadlines, host picture shows, video events and encourage parents participation, etc.

WordPress is a user friendly website that allows even a novice blogger to blog like a champion. There is a very nice tutorial that will teach a user everything they need to know. WordPress allows users to include maps, pictures, videos, posts, discussions, polls, and much more!

Great way for parents/teachers to allow their kids/students to experience blogging while still being able to monitor against viewing things that aren't age appropriate.

I wouldn't use it for the classroom but it is an Interesting site and very useful, a place for me to store sites that I would later add to my blog for students to view.

May be useful but you will have to figure it out.This is not idiot proof.The site allows you to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine.

This is a great tool that could allow children to work collaboratively. This was a tool that was easy to use. I would highly recommend this site.

This site allows for students to collaborate with other on a website. Students can ask ask other questions and answer those, allow who you want and it has great setting for students.

After receiving my grad degree I would use webnode as a tool to provide resources such as hypermedia tools to students and other teachers. My website would be organized according to subject area, offering links and brief descriptions of each.

Finally, Part 3 of the "Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0" series is here. During the last ...