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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."

Use this website to shop with friends, discuss with people with similar tastes and styles, and discuss your favorite products.

Use as an online discussion group for questioning students. Not the main use for this website, but it could be used for this novel approach.

Add comments to any image and then share it via email or copy paste and link. Great way to share a discussion around an image. Great for problem solving exercise where people input how they would solve a problem. Great for Geometry!

This site allows the user to create and share activities and knowledge that help improve productivity and collaboration. Discussions and ideas and saved and shared with others in an organized way. The program must be downloaded to see all features.

LiveJournal.com is a free service for all your journaling and blogging needs, offering privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates. You can move your beginning journaling activity online which creates technological competencies from students while freeing up the first few minutes of your class time.

LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features. You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

Wikio is a user managed news search engine. It watches, real time, thousands of news sources, gathers hundreds of thousands of stories every day and classifies them by their topics in a multi millions documents database. information classification is based both on its relevancy and on its members popularity who vote, discuss or even write new stories

Create online lessons with articles, images, audio, and video for your class. Manage discussions, auto-grade assessments, and track scores through a gradebook.

educatorslog.in is a free online community forum for educators in India. It allows educators to post blogs, share resources and learn about teacher education programs in India

Learning community for educators. You can participate in discussions, share and find resources, and learn about exemplary practices in India.

This is pretty funny. Good lead-ins for discussions.

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to get more people arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. This would be great for class discussion at home.

This is a site from the University of Michigan and it tackles the question, "How do we close the achievement gap? Really nice articles to read and discuss with peers. We all know there are no simple answers and dialog can only help define the multiple ways to close the gap.

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

Gawkk is a social video community where members discover, share and discuss videos from around the web with their friends by answering the question: What are you watching?

Be up and running with Real-time collaboration over documents, images and videos in minutes!"