Free file-sharing and media-sharing service that enables users to take anything ranging from music, videos, documents, audio, and add them to a private, online space called a 'drop' to share with colleagues and clients through email, web, phone, fax, and more.
web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy. materials for instruction at the elementary, secondary and higher education levels
An opportunity to celebrate student excellence supported by Library resources and services: web site highlighting student achievement using the library - perhaps base this around a contest?
Create a customized social network with its own domain name and banner art, individual member profile pages, photo and video sharing, multiple sub-topic groups, and discussion forums. Creating a Ning network takes only a couple of minutes. To increase the safety and privacy of your network's users, you can make it visible only to members, and you can opt to approve each would-be member or make membership by invitation only.
Great little article that could be used as a lead into a discussion of information/web evaluation issues. For example, poll students on the 3 "everyone knows" questions and then delve into why "popular" knowledge/assumptions can be wrong and how the information in this article might be checked as well.
Online debate community. Can set up a debate topic and or pro-con arguments and invite people to add their own arguments. Can also set up private space for students in a class, for example, post a debate topic and require students to back up assertions with sources and proper citations.
share images, docs and videos and create community discussion (audio and text and video) around it. Seems to have potential for instruction. Free version has limits tho.