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custom social network with lots of features.

p2p networked learning platform

Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. It is a community of peers centered around learning. The platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching and collaborative. Pedagogical uses: information sharing, creation of a class advanced level Tags: not free, e-learning, sharing informations

BadgeStack is a social learning tool that encourages people to master new skills and get involved in your community. Plus it's fun.

The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will get you into all of our projects, and you can keep track of what you've contributed by watching 'My Zooniverse'. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.

Learn about science in a visual and interesting way through educational resources provided for exceptional science projects . Pedagogical uses: provide an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning within the classroom or for home-school groups

Artician is a new community for creative professionals! We provide an effortless way for anyone to build, manage, and fully customize their portfolio. We also like to promote and feature creative talent, let's show your work to the world. It's free, sign up below!

This tool allow student to show and promote his/her creative works. Pedagogical uses: presenting creative projects with images. This could be a good tool to show final creative projects to other countries students.

Say hello to a little conversation. Mootly is where ongoing conversations take the main stage. In a moot the discussion can go as deep or as frivolous as you like. Sign up now by creating your first moot!

Very easy signup: add name, email, participants, and welcome message. It is like a very simple Facebook group and free to use. Can't be more simple and straightforward than this. Students can use this to setup a simple and temporary chat/collaboration platform if they do not want to use Facebook.

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids, families and teachers. Two (or more) people author a Storybird-one with words, one with pictures-and then share it with their network. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library. For the teachers is possible to create thematic assignments within seconds to support their lesson plans. Assign privacy settings, turn Spellcheck on or off, and issue due dates. All using an intuitive interface. Pedagogical uses: developement creativity, language skills, foreign languages skills, creative writing, storytelling. Intermediate level Tags: free, storytelling

cool platform to aggregate your online ID

This tool allows to manage your on line identity , it is not for pedagogical uses.

Through LiveCastr people can broadcast live video directly from their mobile phones to the web, allowing their online friends to follow them from any event, anytime, anywhere. The live video can be viewed on the LiveCastr website or on a LiveCastr player that users can place on their personalized profile page on their favorite online social network.

Collaborative environment for your school to connect with people of common interests all around the world. Share your library, chats, webconference, etc. Pedagogical uses: Collaborative projects with people from other cities or countries related to a common subject. Create a space of your classroom and find other students from other schools to share interests.

interesting description of open source learning. roles. responsibilities. tasks. etc.

This open source product allow teachers and students to personalize their personal learning environment with easy access to many different tools in a friendly way. Pedagogical uses: the students can install and manage their own personal environment where find favorite tools for communicating, sharing, creating, ...

Teachers and students have access to the software, they can learn about the programming, tailor it to their requirements. By discussing the problems and suggested solutions with a greater group all the members can learn from each other. Pedagogical uses: collaborative work on these issues, even in transnational projects

technical uses: Knovio is an easy-to-use web-based tool that allows you to make an exisiting powerpoint presentation much more dynamic using a web cam or micro. You simply upload your presentation, and then you can narrate each slide with audio or video, and then share your video presentation either via email or across your social networks. It is a particularly great tool for someone who is already proficient in powerpoint. Their program is completely free, and since it is web-based, you can access your creations wherever you have internet access. Pedagogical uses: Project presentations, students presentations related to their projects.