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Google Wave is fairly new and it has just come out of beta testing and is now open to everyone with a Google account. The web app is part chat, part email with a whole lot of collaborative possibilities for education. How it is going to be used is still being determined at this point. It's fun to use!

Steve Hargadon created this Ning - it's a space where teachers get together and share wisdom, resources and conversation. It currently has over 40,000 educators subscribed. A terrific resource for extending your learning!

Weebly is a site creation tool that allows non-technical people to create their own basic blog and websites for free. Weebly for educators allows you to have your own blog and class site and also lets you manage your students' portfolio sites. There is a pro edition ($40 year) that opens up some other features like selected password protected pages, audio player, increased file size limit, embedded documents and a file uploader for your site. Weebly comes with 10 student site spaces and additional spaces are reasonably priced.

Here is the link to my blog and class site: http://graphcomm.weebly.com

only2clicks is a visual bookmarking site - pages can be marked private or public depending on your need. A small applet will allow you to add a site to only2clicks quickly. One disadvantage is the lack of keyword search and the window can get quite crowded. You can find my only2clicks site at this URL: http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/altucker

start.io is a basic bookmarking site - allows the user to share a group of sites quickly with one short URL. An applet exists for Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. My start.io page can be found at http://start.io/altucker

Jennifer Dorman's wonderful wiki that is full of Diigo resources. Jennifer works in the Central Bucks school district and is a Pennsylvania Keystone Technology Integrator and a terrific person to follow on Twitter. You can find her @cliotech