Social Bookmarks provide users with a space to collect, organize and share their bookmarks with anyone who has their Web address. This is a great way to have your bookmarks conveniently available on any computer.
del.icio.us - Keep all your bookmarks in one location, online! You can create categories to organize your links. Make your del.icio.us site public and share it.
Slacker Manager - You'll find some great tips for using del.icio.us on this blog
furl - Another social bookmarking tool similar to del.icio.us
Diigo - You can bookmark a page, highlight text on a web page then annotate it with sticky notes. Send it to a friend to show them what you've found!
These sites allow users to upload documents to their site and invite others to collaborate or make a document public.
Writely is like an online file cabinet. You can store your documents online for personal use, or make them public so others can edit them in real-time. Revision tools allow you to roll back or even compare two different versions.
EditGrid allows real-time collaboration on spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are updated instantly for every user as any change is made. Several templates are available.
Diigo - Diigo allows users to add highlights and sticky notes on any web page they read. Users can create them as private notes or public comments. They can read public comments on the transparency left by other readers of the same page, and interact with them.
Please note: the Innovate site requires users to establish a free account.
Teaching Social Software with Social Software
New Student Collaboration Tools
Pageflakes - Pageflakes is a free service that lets you put all your stuff on one page: news, del.icio.us links; weather, YouTube videos, address book and more
Creative Commons - CC is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.
Creative Commons: A New School for Schools - An informative article about Creative Commons and how to use it in a school setting.
Wetpaint - Users can combine wikis, blogs and forums and choose to allow for collaboration.
CcPublisher - CcPublisher will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. You also have the option of publishing the licensed and tagged audio works on your own site.
A PDF slide show on blogs; the RSS part starts at slide 58
RSS for Educators - A detailed explanation about how RSS works and what it can do for educators
This quick start guide, created by Will Richardson, is specifically geared for educators.
School Computing - Neatly organised Wiki covering Rationale for RSS, Uses of RSS in Education, and Education RSS Feeds, along with useful lists of Resources, References and FAQs
Six Apart - An introduction to RSS for beginners
Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy - This site provides basic instructional help on using word processing and other basic computer uses.
Bloglines - Both a feed search tool and a feed reader/aggregator. A drop-down menu next to its search form allows you to search all of the blogs it has indexed, only the blogs you subscribe to, the web (via Ask Jeeves), or add a feed to your subscription.
Feeds and Aggregators - Very practical introduction featuring a Table of Info about Selected Feeds and Feed-related Tools.
Search Engine's list of RSS search/feed tools
A PDF slide show on blogs; the RSS part starts at slide 58
What is RSS and Why Should You Care - An introduction to RSS by the Search Engine people
A list of things you can do with RSS
BBC News - nicely illustrated introduction, with lots of links to BBC feeds, and the latest content available from them
An article by Mark Pilgrim explaining RSS
The Glue of Blogging Conversations - A blog entry on the value of RSS. Also provides a good differentiation between blogs and discussion boards.
