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eLearningCommunity.com is a free learning platform. This is a social site for knowledge seekers to enrich their knowledge through online learning, sharing, and socializing to make new friends without boundaries.

Twtpoll is a simple survey/ poll twitter app. Type in a 140 chars question, type in multiple choice answers, and share it in social networks, or embed it in your blog. Twtpoll is a simple survey/ poll twitter app. Type in a 140 chars question, type in multiple choice answers, and share it in social networks, or embed it in your blog.

Flock is a free web browser. Built on Mozilla's Firefox, Flock enables you to instantly upload photos, share photos and videos by drag-n-drop, blog, and get notified when your friends update profiles on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. Flock is a free alternative to Internet Explorer and other Internet browsers.

Check to see if your desired username or vanity URL is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites.

Elgg empowers individuals, groups, and institutions to create their own fully-featured social network. Similar in some ways to diigo.com, it allows people to create an online community. It even has a social bookmarking facility.

boxee: start-up out of stealth mode. yep, we're doing a social media center. now available for mac osx, apple tv & ubuntu linux

This 2.0 website is a social network for youth and young adults. It's similar to MySpace with a focus on libraries and library activities. It is mre carefully monitored than Myspace and can be a resource tool for math students.

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies and English movies, comic strips, activity pages and school homework help for kids.

This site can be used to organize your books. There is access to Amazon books, ratings and sales ranks. You can check books' availability in over 300 libraries in 11 different countries, check out what's in your friends' bookshelves and view books previewed through Google Books. You can embed your bookshelf on your blog.

BookJetty is a social utility that connects you with your friends' bookshelves and checks books' availability in the libraries. As a teacher this would be beneficial to share knowledge with other teachers. Also, being able to check availability of a book at one site would save time.

For the times in need of surveying multiple people, this website can help you. Teachers can have their students create other maps besides pie charts with the outcome of the answers. Create an account and you can poll people with whatever questions you need to be answered. Once you are done polling, it creates a pie chart to show the final results.

Type in a 140 chars question, type in multiple choice answers, and share it in social networks, or embed it in your blog.

Throughout this website there are various articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources to highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment. Teachers can use this site in order to understand the concepts used in teaching.

Num Sum is a web site that brings you online, simple, sharable web spreadsheets. In other words, you can now create social spreadsheets. All you need to join in is a modern web browser. Track your records, lists and data online, Share with everybody or with just your close friends and Connect with folks who have similar interests.

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.

Virtual Tours are a useful and innovative tool used to show locations and objects in 360 degrees through the Internet. A great tool for social studies teachers teaching geography.

Create useful diagrams online. This could be very useful for graphical organizers as a teacher when assisting in note taking and linking events in Social Studies, Literature and Science. Also could be very useful with graphical representations of Math

Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.

Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you. Through one of my education classes, I found that one of the librarians started a bookmarking page for reliable lesson plans for all ranges of teachers.

Myebook aims to revolutionize the way we create, publish and share ebook content online. Built on a feature-rich social platform, complete with powerful, browser-based, builder software, and a slick reader environment, an easier way for anyone and everyone to 'get it out there'.

urFooz your portable ID that lets you share information across your favorite social networks, blogs and start pages. Easily organize your Web favorites, such as photos, videos, bookmarks and more, by creating a urFooz ID. urFooz is your portable ID that gives you: One identity for all your online activities; An avatar that represents the "virtual" you; and a single connection for all your Web favorites.

A free service that helps individuals or groups track goals, evaluate performance and measure ongoing progress. All this is wrapped in a social framework to help inspire and empower goal achievement.