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Teachbook.com is a professional, online community for teachers. When you join Teachbook, you can communicate with your colleagues in a secure, professional online environment. You can create, share, and search a database of lesson plans and instructional videos created by other teachers, as well as find online courses, instructional modules, and other education resources. Managing your classroom and communications with parents and studetns is easy with Teachbook.

The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. Media Sharing Digital Storytelling Manage and Organize Social Networking and Communication Curriculum Sharing Content Resources: Lesson Plans and More Content Collaboration

A community of users who discuss the site and offer suggestions and even tips on how to use it.

A community of users who discuss the site and offer suggestions and even tips on how to use it. Don't forget to get the addon for Google. See both results on one page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12006

"Collaboration and communication is one of the most important aspects of teaching and education. If you are looking for tools and sites that can be used to communicate and collaborate with other teachers, parents, and students, you can find many quality resources online. Here are 10 free sites and tools to try throughout the school year."

The American Physical Society represents some 45,000 physicists, and most of our work centers on scientific meetings and publications-the primary ways that physicists communicate with each other. With PhysicsCentral, we communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone. We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news. We'll describe the latest research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, where to go on the web. So stick with us. It's a big, interesting world out there, and we look forward to showing you around.

Protagonize is a community that writes collaborative interactive fiction. One person starts the story, and others post chapters to the story that lead it in different direction. In the end it becomes an evolving story in which everyone can participate.

Google Voice can be used by students who are hearing impaired can use this tool to take advantage of text-messaging features to participate in activites that require oral communication. Google Voice will let them view text transcripts of voice-mail messages. Any student can post audio files or podcasts using google voice. Google voicemail and text message communications are archived so there is a running record of all activities and progress. A teacher could make oral quizzes into podcasts by uploading them to a podcasting service, such as ITunes, and students could subscribe to the podcast.

ScuttlePad is a social network for kids that allows members to interact online while building language skills. With ScuttlePad, kids express themselves using guided communication to learn how to share information responsibly. Once they're part of the ScuttlePad community, kids can connect with their friends in a fun and safe way.

FREE online community that provides educators with the resources for preparing for new courses and projects, or instructions on the skills needed to teach with Adobe software. Educators can share lesson plans, class projects, technical tutorials, background materials and other resources and get feedback and recognition from the community.

a unique innovation network - a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world's most significant challenges.

GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.

Make help videos quickly and easily using the Community Clips Recorder.

Welcome! ClassChatter offers free blogging and web tools for teachers at all levels of education. Our first goal is to provide a safe haven for teachers and students on the web. You will find a secure and private environment, free of any advertising directed at your students. We hope that you will discover useful tools that will help move your students more rapidly into 21st century communications and collaboration!

Keystone Commons is the networking platform for PAIUnet members to communicate, create, and collaborate. PAIUnet is a statewide, high-speed educational network that enables educators and students throughout Pennsylvania to access and share valuable resources for enhancing student learning. PAIUnet helps to transform the way educational services and information are delivered by connecting all 29 Intermediate Units (IUs) and their member school districts throughout the Commonwealth.

Keystone Commons is the networking platform for PAIUnet members to communicate, create, and collaborate. PAIUnet is a statewide, high-speed educational network that enables educators and students throughout Pennsylvania to access and share valuable resources for enhancing student learning. PAIUnet helps to transform the way educational services and information are delivered by connecting all 29 Intermediate Units (IUs) and their member school districts throughout the Commonwealth.

"There are so many wonderful resources that teachers can freely use on the internet! If you are looking for educational content, you'll find it there. If you are looking to connect with other educators, mentors, communities - you can easily find them. If you need a tool to help you accomplish as task, you can find it. This site's purpose is to get you pointed toward some of these marvelous educational treasures."

A pleasing annotated array of links to free learning/educational online resources

"CFSD Rubrics for 21st Century Skills: Catalina Foothills School District has developed a series of rubrics to assess students in real time. The rubrics evaluate the following 21st century skills: critical & creative thinking, self-direction, communication, systems thinking, cultural competence, teamwork, and leadership."

It is not just for high school any more. This is a product that is widely used in our educational community and the kids need to be aware of what is happening in other arenas.

Create an online community of your classroom, share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts, post discussions, deadlines, homework, create surveys for students, keep parents informed.

collaborative video editing community. Upload videos, share clips, then mix it up and mash it out. Thousands of clips, hundreds of collaborators, unlimited possibilities