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BigMarker.com is the social network for Communities. By offering unlimited web conferencing and key project management tools, we hope to empower Communities to make a difference. We believe that with the right tools, any Community can make a visible and lasting impact in the world.

"Engage Parents, Support Students Kikutext is a service that makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents using text messaging, so students perform better."

Shelfari is a community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers. Create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favorite books - all for free.

great list of dos and don'ts for students!

Usability.gov is the primary government source for information on usability and user-centered design. It provides guidance and tools on how to make Web sites and other communication systems more usable and useful.

Answer Underground is an iOS education app that helps students learn by connecting them with study groups across the country. Teachers are able to create groups for their students to join and can customize the privacy settings for each group. The teacher can then verify the content shared and mark student answers as correct.   Push notifications give students and teachers the ability to see group activity in real time and get instant notifications when questions have been answered. The free app can improve peer communication as students help each other learn. 

The CR blog extends the reach of the Creative Review magazine, dedicated to all aspects of visual communication, from advertising to digital media. Launched in 1980, the UK-based magazine has readers online in over 120 nations. The CR blog doesn't just talk about design - it makes art, as in the annual cover created from blog stories and photos.

What started as a blog morphed into a community resource, full of real world advice from working designers about art, graphic design and the business smarts needed in this field. The site offers videos, tips, tutorials and freebies like plug-ins and presentation templates. Articles include Blank Canvas discussions like "Students - What's Missing From Your Classes?" and "How Do You Learn?"

"Mozilla Labs Gaming is a project focused on games being built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser. We want to explore the wider set of technologies which make immersing gaming experiences on the open Web possible. We invite the wider community to play with cool, new tech and aim to help establish the open Web as the platform for gaming across all your Internet connected devices."

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. "

ScratchEd is an online community where educators can share, exchange resources, connect, and ask questions.

"The Digital Forensics Association (DFA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering education, providing networking opportunities and conducting research to benefit the digital forensics community. "

"arlier this year, Microsoft released a Community Technical Preview (CTP) of its robot-programming SDK, called "Microsoft Robotics Studio," the result of work done by one of the groups emerging from Microsoft Research. Robotics Studio provides a high-level generic interface for programming a wide range of robots using a distributed model. The utility of this approach is apparent by the fact that both hobbyists controlling robotic kits or toy robots and serious roboticists controlling large and complicated robots can use the same SDK. This article presents an overview of Robotics Studio, and then shows you how to use the SDK to program the iRobot Roomba vacuum robot."

Introducing a global online learning community where educators collaborate, share resources and showcase accomplishments.

The Open Clipart Library (OCAL) is the Largest Collaboration Community that creates, shares and remixes clipart. All clipart is released to the public domain and may be used in any project for free and with no restrictions.

MathsNet is an independent educational website providing free mathematics resources to the education community. Its aim is to offer truly interactive resources that are both wide and deep in terms of their applicability and usefulness. MathsNet is not an online textbook. It is interactive, requiring the user to participate rather than be a passive observer.

Tell stories with graphics, text, and audio with this visually compelling application on desktops, iPads and iPhones. Network socially without sidebars, ads, or logos in this online environment that focuses on the content you create with photos, video, and slideshows.Tip: Use this tool to share daily life in your dynamic library with the school community using video, photos, and text.

Gamestar Mechanic is an interactive site that leads users through the game design experience. This site teaches the principals of game design and systems thinking in a highly engaging environment that allows users to share games with other community members. Tip: Use as part of a STEM initiative, Gamestar Mechanic has a teacher's page with useful lesson plans.