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Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet

One nice thing I've discovered about Diigo is that you can set it up to automatically save your bookmarks to delicious when you save them to Diigo.

Free site that allows for collaborative learning as well as shared resources. I really enjoy the rubrics.

ION provides services including online professional development courses for credit or CEU's, on-site presentations, Faculty Summer Institutes, and much more. ION has been recognized for its contributions to the development of faculty who not only are ski

This is a very useful site for those interestign in learning more about using web2.0 tools within the education realm. With this site you are able to connect with others and share experiences and ideas in using web2.0 tools.

Great site for creating rubrics....and it's free

very cool way to view pictures and videos.

In case anyone ever asked why twitter is important.....

You can do mobile uploads, file sharing, music, social networking, chat, and safe searching.KID smART's focus is arts integration-linking the arts with the existing academic curriculum. Arts Integration is an inquiry-based approach that lends depth to the learning process by using the arts to create new connections between content and the different ways children learn. The arts help our students to develop self-confidence, responsibility, security, and acceptance, gain respect and compassion for others, develop self-understanding, discipline and emotional control increase use of language and improve communication skills, increase abilities to solve problems creatively and independently foster curiosity, engagement, and enthusiasm for learning. Kidsmart focuses on creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, effective communication and collaboration.

This is a social platform site that allows teachers to share files and other information with their students and parents. This site is similar to Twitter, but more focused on catering to teachers and its use in the classroom.

Yonkly is a resource very similar to Twitter. To quote from its website it "allows you to create a white-label microblog community that is fully customizable". This resource would allow someone to keep up with the user of Yonkly. It's extremely easy to navigate, and while complicated when you read into all the technical aspects of it (like I did), it really is a good alternative tool for social networking.

This is a great tool for collaborating when creating documents or projects. It combines email, text, voice messages, calendar, and storing and editing files in one safe place. It is easy and simple to use. Many of the features are designed to be self-explanatory. It is also safe and private. Nobody can join a group unless invited or given permission.

Free collaboration/networking tool

This is a good description of how twitter can be useful in a classroom.

This is a tool that allows users to manage their twitter accounts and tweets from other users on one program on their personal computer. This tool can be combined with other social networking sites. Teachers could use tweet deck to send out tweets and information to their students or parents of their students about what is going on in their classroom