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List of sites, some still in beta, for use by students and teachers.

"UMW Blogs is a publishing platform available to any member of the University of Mary Washington community. Based on the open-source system, WordPress, it allows any faculty member, student, or staff employee to create a blog, a course or project site, or professional Web presence. We invite you to create an account and start exploring!" (About, ¶1)

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting" (Free, copyright-friendly images for education, ¶1, 2012.11/01).

Complete, step-by-step demonstration and instructions for getting started with WordPress: sign-up, site navigation, blog creation, creating and deleting posts, adding categories and tags (labels), using views, tabs, and filters, using pages, creating links, adding images, and embedding videos (23 short episodes).

"We might be tempted to suggest Grammarly for students or learners of English, but the fact that Grammarly has nothing to say about so many of our intentionally incorrect sentences leads us to the sad conclusion that Grammarly is useless for everyone. Grammarly might improve, but as of early 2012, we can't in good conscience keep advertising it on our site." (Conclusion, ¶2)

"LitReactor has three goals. To become: * A destination for writers to improve their craft. * A haven for readers to geek out about books. * And a platform to kickstart your writing goals." (http://litreactor.com/about) The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (2012.03.01): Abstracts (1) Character (15) Cliche (2) Dialogue (9) Grammar (10) Literary Devices (8) Live Reading (3) Narrator (7) Objects (4) POV (3) Phrases (3) Plot (18) Poetry (1) Research (9) Rewriting (2) Setting (1) Similies (1) Structure (14) Theme (8) Verbs (1) Vocabulary (5) Voice (16) Word Play (2) Workshop (2) (http://litreactor.com/essays/categories) 

Interesting possibilities here for course-based G+ community pages and sites.

Typing topic generator (favorites), timer, and word-count tool, plus a list of practice typing sites

"Fortunately Facebook, Ning, Google and Yahoo Groups and many other options for social networking don't work that way. Those communities can continue for as long as the members of the community put in the effort to keep it alive. This can be very useful for students to stay in contact for social, professional and learning opportunities" (Ross, 2008.10.06).

"Blogger Stats is that it monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog" (Staszek Paśko and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers; THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010; ¶2, retrieved 2010.08.06).

List of and links to English pages attached to the Kumamoto Prefecture Web Site: Agriculture, Int'l Exchangee[s], Tourism ...

Six step production of recommended reading lists for publication in other sites

Top of site introduced by Bernard Robin on Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (FutureofEducation, 2010.03.10) See in particular: Essentials and Web 2.0

"Sites that allow users to work with others on documents, or provide a shared workspace" (para. 1).

from thewritingteacher.org

the official AWL site

A must view and listen site for teachers interested in edublogging, esp. slides 13ff.

This is "a collaboratively edited question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts. It's 100% free, no registration required (Welcome! 2011.02.02).

Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)