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Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: - keep shared calendar (with text message reminders) - poll group in real-time - send mass text messages - store files in one common folder - setup group conference call - many others! When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio is the best FREE tool on the web to help you organize groups like: - Academic project groups - Clubs, organizations, committees - Fraternities and sororities - Housemates and dormmates - TA sections - Sports teams - Musical and dance groups

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Provides a way to organize all the online groups under one umbrella. You may have a WIKI for your course, a discussion group for bookclub, WIKI for grade level; each with their one group of people who really do not overlap. Instead of organizing by site - you organize by people. Interesting idea as we become members of multiple online groups and get to know the people in them as well groups purpose and resources

Planning a group trip? Make it fun and easy with Triporama! Store and share travel research, send invitations, and coordinate travel. Find trip ideas, deals, and high-quality travel providers. This could be useful for field trips or possible over night trips.

Notifu allows sending a message to an individual or group via email, IM, SMS, or phone; knowing which recipients have acknowledged the message; and optionally gathering responses from recipients to make simpl decisions. Free.

Allows you the use of sending messages to individuals or groups. This site also allows you the opportunity to receive quick feedback to these same messages.

Live Documents allows you to create documents online to share with a group or community, which has obvious implications as a teacher. A desktop application allows you to create documents offline. This service is free and is great for working in a group setting. Aside from documents, there are also tools for creating 'live presentations'

Similar to the Wiki. EtherPad allwos groups to create a website together in real time from any computer. Could be used for student tutorials or extra help from home.

Google Docs will store documents for access to groups, and also allows students who may not be able to afford nice word processors and spreadsheet creators to use the same tools as everyone else. This would be a great tool for teachers trying to incorporate a e-community into their classroom and would be able to level the playing field for disadvantaged students.

Strategies for small group activities

As shown in class today, using a wiki such as wetpaint in place of a power point, blackboard or overhead projector can be successful. The benefit of using and editing problems and activities on a wiki is that your students can access these problems at home. This could also be useful in having the students post content and ask questions.

Wetpaint is the largest network of free websites. Wetpaint sites are great for groups, classes, and more; start your free website in 3 steps.

Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them.

reference management...share references w/group

Live Documents offers a suite of web-enabled Office productivity applications (equivalents of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that can be used as software on your desktop or as services within your browser. Live Documents gives you unprecedented choice and flexibility and increases personal productivity and group collaboration. Live Documents office tools include feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, database and lists. This website could be a great help if you need to share presentations that are too big to send through email.

This site provides book reviews for students from elementary and middle grade students. Students are also the reviewers, providing authenticity for other students. There is also school involvement from all over the world and class or student home pages can be created. Students can "read books, engage in book talks, discuss the elements of a book review, read and discuss reviews, write group reviews to practice writing summaries opinions and recommendations, work on their own reviews read their reviews for feedback from their peers, and publish their reviews."

Find or create your own flashcards or study card sets by subject. Users can keep track of their progress through various Quizlet tests and games. Teachers can host a group and provide new study materials for their class.

Good ways to keep track of home work

This is an assignment tracker that will assist students with keeping track of assignments, homework, and due dates.

A simple but powerful way for students to keep track of their homework, and to never miss a due date again.

Fun little web site that has warm up for each day of the month, along with fun math, thinking skills, a fun tool to use to select random students and put in groups.

Find and add Tabs to keep you up-to-date with people, places, and things that interest you. Create Tabs to keep in touch easily with all the people and groups in your life. Receive email alerts for your most important activities. And more

doingText makes working on a text together really easy: Upload text, share the URL, comment, edit and review. This would be great for doing a group project where you had to write a paper or summary.

This website allows you to create a chatroom whenever you need to talk with others. Students can use it to work on group projects. Teachers can use it to talk about lesson plans or any other tasks they need to complete.

Brainy toys for kids of all ages. Sorted by age group and various subject categories. They sell books, brainteasers, games, puzzles, and building sets. Great source for creative "extra time" activities.