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Science Museum Learning Collaboratories: Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Museums' Informal Learning Resources and Science Education in K-12 Schools

Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It's all free, as in both "freedom of speech" and "almost totally free beer." We invite you to build on what we've started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don't want to install your own.

Humanities, arts, science, and technology advanced collaboratory

The nLab is a collaborative wiki which has grown out of the desire (I, II) of an on-line community communicating via the weblog The n-Category Café of people interested in discussion of expository and research nature about mathematics, physics and philosophy in the light of category theory and higher category theory (the "n" in "nLab") to have a place for development (the "Lab" in "nLab") and indexed archivation of the ideas and concepts that were, are and will be subject of or that developed out of the discussion at the weblog.