Useful sites (weekly)

From Flickr Uploaded 2009-10-26 by vicky_n

• ClassChats.com ~ Connecting Students, Teachers, and Classrooms Worldwide  This is a social network that has been set up to help educators connect world wide. Many teachers are starting to use this site to match up with other classrooms and skype and video conference between them. Classrooms can communicate via chat, webcam, interactive whiteboard, forum posts, and more.

•   12 Key Messages for Education in a Social Media Age by Blog By Carol In June 2009, Edelman convened 100+ professors of communication, journalism, business and pubic relations to discuss how companies and organisations effectively engage with their stake holders through social media

• Social Media for Education Informative slideshow on the uses of social media in the classroom. It is helpful in identifying uses to which social media can be put for research purposes

• Intute – Blog – A Bakers Dozen of Practical Podcasting Tips Simple tips for producing a better quality audio podcast

• Educator Pln Twitter List by Shelly S Terrell on Listorious 

• Mashpedia, the real-time encyclopedia This tool matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from other sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, etc.. The purpose of drawing materials from multiple sources is to provide users with a comprehensive view of news stories and reference topics. 

• FlockDraw FlockDraw is a simple service that allows people to quickly and easily collaborate on the creation of a drawing. To use FlockDraw simply visit the site, click the “start drawing” button, and start drawing. To invite other people to draw with you, just send them the url assigned to your drawing board.

• WiseMapping | Visual Thinking Evolution “Wise Mapping is a free collaborative mind mapping tool. Wise Mapping has fairly easy to use editing and sharing functions. Each cell created in a Wise Mapping mind map can be dragged and moved around in the mind map without losing any text or text formatting. Wise Mapping lets users collaborate on the creation of mind map. Mind maps made on Wise Mapping can be shared with others via email, url link, or be embedded into your blog or website.”

• Enterprise Social Software | Wikis, Microblogging & Feeds – CubeTree CubeTree is a free service designed for companies that would like to build a social network of wikis, shared items, and microblogs for their employees. On CubeTree anyone can create a network and invite colleagues. All colleagues must have the same email domain.

• Jabbster | Your private online meeting place Jabbster is a free service that allows groups to create private online communication networks. Within your private network you can host discussion boards, share photos, post an event calendar, and share bookmarks. Setting up a Jabbster group is quick and easy: register for an account, name your group, and send invitations to the people you want in the group. If you create the group, you are the group administrator and can delete any content or user from the group at any time.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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