Collaborative Tools for Learning:

Blogs

Use a Blog to share information with learners or as a reflective (or learning) journal for you or your learners

http://www.wordpress.com/

http://www.blogspot.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

Social Networks

For even more interaction between groups of learners or to keep in touch with a network of interest to you Join or Create a Social Network

Join a network at http://www.facebook.com/

Create a Social Network for a group of learners or for a Community of Practice at http://www.ning.com/

Wikis

The easy way to build a website together with learners or with a community group is to use a wiki. Great for groupwork, planning, brainstrirming etc.

http://www.wikihow.com/

http://www.wetpaint.com/

http://www.wikispaces.com/ (also has thousands of educational wikis to search)


Google Docs

http://www.docs.google.com/ Collaboratively create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Store documents online and access and edit them from any computer




Video Sharing /Slide Sharing Websites

http://www.youtube.com/ More than funny, weird and wonderful... there is simply no subject or topic not covered by some or many youtube videos

http://www.videojug.com/ 1000s of videos, articles, answers & people

http://www.jingproject.com/ creating and sharing a video using screen capture


Surveys , Questionnaires or Scheduling Tools

Create an online survey or poll

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

http://www.polldaddy.com/

http://www.doodle.com/ (Surveys or Scheduling assistant)

General Teaching Resources

www.scoilnet.ie Portal for Irish Primary and Post Primary Education

www.sitesforteachers.com Educational Websites rated by popularity

www.teachnet.ie and www.teachnet.org Project promoting integation of technology into education.

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk / The Open University online - hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/ Top 100 tools for learning as rated by people working in Education

http://www.teachers.tv/ Thousands of online videos and other resources relevant to teaching

http://www.teachertube.com Teaching version of youtube

www.howstuffworks.com Hundreds of subjects covered - simple explanations with illustrations

www.ehow.com How to do just about anything

www.wkipedia.org The biggest user-edited encylopedia in the world