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This is more for teachers. Users can collect, analyze and weight information about many other products, services, etc. It helps the higher education community make better choices in course management systems, student services, and e-learning policies.

NSTEP Study Buddy is a student-to-student math tutoring service that is freely available to students who have been been qualified through their school or after school program to receive the tutoring services, or who qualify under the national school lunch program or whose households receive food stamps. This is a tremendous example of community service that benefits many. The disadvantaged getting the opportunity and support to realize, or even surpass their potential, and the volunteer tutors get the reward of contributing to the success of their fellow world citizen.

Similar to YouTube but education oriented. I found some interesting videos on here but I have found the equivalent YouTube videos to have better production values.

It's YoutTube for Teachers!!! TeacherTube is a service that allows users, mostly educators to share educational resources (documents, images, audio & video files) for free. The sites has resources for classroom use, professional development, and even have some posted by students.

Dropbox is an easy way to share files and to back them up. You can access your docs on any computer even without the software installed. You can send an invite to share access to specific folders or files to allow collaboration. It works on multiple platforms including iPad/Pod/Phone, PC, MAC, Android, Linux, and Blackberry

A free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily with others.

I am not sure what I would use this tool for but there appear to be a lot of features and if you pay the monthly fee you get a lot more tools. There is not any support for the free service. That is a major drawback.

Great source with many different links

Mixbook is a free service that allows users to create online photo books, cards and calendars. It comes with a set of design templates, but the user can create their own using the available design tools. Users can invite others to collaborate on the production of these online projects. Mixbook is mashed-up with sites like Facebook, Flickr and Picasa, so users can easily user their photos from these sites too. There's also a Mixbook Education program where students and teachers have free access to collaborative classroom tools, in a secure online environment and receive discounts on printed products.

Mind42 is a free browser-based collaborative mind mapping service. The tool has a very clean and intuitive user interface, and allows collaborators to add include images, change font attributes, and does not limit the number of maps or collaborators. It also uses Google groups to host a forum for networking, and has the ability to restore previous

"NoteMesh is like Wikipedia for your [class] notes". This service makes it possible for students in the same class (created in NoteMesh) to aggregate their notes. If users want to start a class, they just complete a form and NoteMesh creates a wiki page for the class. students who add the class to their roster could post notes to the wiki. Ultimately, you "collaborate to graduate".

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.

This is a great collaborative tool that we have used in class so you should have a little experience with it. Google doc is easy if you are familiar with a word processor program.