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Free and Useful Online Teaching/Learning Tools

Social Network:
Twitter            www.twitter.com
Ning                www.ning.com
Facebook        www.facebook.com
Flickr               www.flickr.com
Blogger:          www.blogger.com
Wordpress:      www.wordpress.com
YouTube:        www.youtube.com

 Social Bookmark:
 Diigo              www.diigo.com                            
                       www.slides.diigo.com  (turning bookmarks into interactive slideshows)
 Delicious        www.delicious.com   

Collaborative Learning – Wiki (a Hawaiian word for “fast”, now expanded as “What I Know Is”)
Wikipedia:      www.wikipedia.org 
Wetpaint:        www.wetpaint.com 
PBwiki:           www.pbwiki.com    
Google Docs:   docs.google.com (create and share your documents, presentations)
ConnectNow:  www.acrobat.com/#/connectnow/ConnectNowBegin (web conferencing tool for                         screen sharing, remote screen control, whiteboard, and chat)

Podcasting & Vodcasting:
Podcasting Resource Site:      http://podcastinfo.org/
How to Podcast:         www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm
Audacity:        http://audacity.sourceforge.net      (podcasting tool for both PC and Mac)
Jing:                www.jingproject.com                         (a screen capture tool to create image/video)

Moodle:           www.moodle.com        (free course management system (CMS))
Wordle:           www.wordle.net      (“Word clouds” images generated from texts)
Befunky:         www.befunky.com/    (adding special photo effect with one click)
xmarks:            www.xmarks.com       (syncs & backs bookmarks on different computers)
Zotero:            www.zotero.com         (research tool for managing and citing online references)