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Instructables is the Biggest How To and DIY community where people make and share inspiring, entertaining, and useful projects, recipes, and hacks.

a comprehensive database of do-it-yourself videos and articles.  The site is packed with homegrown tips, expertise and instructions on how to undertake thousands of useful activities.Want to turn an old NES cartridge into a functioning external hard drive with just a soldering iron and a screwdriver?  How about retrofitting your original 1984 Mac so it can run the current Apple operating system or training a guinea pig to play dead? It's all there for you to discover.You can also find solutions to problems that aren't quite answered by the array of videos.  Just post a query in their answers forum and one of the site's regular users (or "pros" in their lingo) will likely answer it (and turn the answer into a video).If you've got knowledge you want to contribute, click on the Submit button to post your own article or video. (You know, in case you want to give back a little).

Compare/contrast a variety of different Wikis using this site.

"Gathering information to share? How do you pull everything together? LiveBinders is your online 3-ring binder Best of all, it's free!"

The community for educators using Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies!

"Access, organize, edit and archive all of your precious family movies on Pixorial. Remix and share online. Easily create keepsakes, DVDs, downloads and more!"

Neat Chat provides you a clean, fast, and robust chat room. You can share files, send private messages, and change your status through an intuitive interface. If you are late to a chat session, no problem! Neat Chat allows you to access all the conversations that took place in your absence.

Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page

"UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music or enhance their existing musical talent and share it with friends. "

Just signed up looks karaoke on steroids but also creative you can record original work I don't know of you can collaborate?

Wow you can create huge range of vocal effects as well as instruments genres etc eventually UJAM will embed into any type of platform/ use. I'm imagining Twitter with optional sound? Or in games. Oh yeah how about a profile with a little acapella or guitar rift?

"Skype in the classroom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms. Join today to share resources, chat with teachers and even pair classes."

Meet new people, discover new cultures and connect with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom.

The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.

"In this scenario, students will become researchers and problem solvers in order to design a plan to save the Earth from a hypothetical asteroid strike."

Mindmap illustrating the components of creating a PLN.  Mindmeister map created/shared by Lucy Gray.