Similar to Facebook. It is a mashup application that combines a search engine that can be based on your personal interest and preference along with social networking.

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

You create several maps within one map space, provides a chat where the user can invite others to collaborate on the map and through time line slider you can access older versions of the map. It can also be downloaded on ipads. The academic version is more complete than this free version.

The account holder holds the control of this tool. A user doesn't have to download documents to the computer to view them. It has ways to plan ahead through task management, group calendars and a birds eye view of a timeline. It has a discussion board. Information can be share easily.

You can enter study sets by dividing the type of vocabulary (food, condiments, items, etc.) or grammar you want to learn. It offers flascards, a quiz, auditory quiz, a study bookmark so that you can chose the topic. It also has an statistics button to track your strings and weaknesses.

Voice based elearning tool. A teacher can create talkgroups that are like message boards but with voice and not text. It is easy to interact with students without being in the classroom to practice conversation, give oral presentations and collaborate in different projects.

Helps students get their work organized. It allows you to take notes, set up reminders, and organize your assignments and exams in the calendar. It has a mobile version in case.

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.

This is a great tool to prepare quizzes, or create practice exercises to help students prepare for exams. It has six applications. Allows you to make interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web. It is not an open source.

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.

Very easy and simple tool to use. Yu or your students design the story and the artwork is provided. Great tool to use as a final project at the end of the year to check on the students writting skills in English or any other second language (ESL).