Blogs or Weblogs are virtual online spaces that support the posting of personal comments on the web. Blogs provide primarily one-way communication, but with the inclusion of comments and links, blogs become powerful interactive writing tools.” (Lever-Duffy and MacDonald, 2011) Read More...

Connotea -- [ www.connotea.com ] -- is a social bookmarking site that allows users to store and share personally generated bookmarks on the web. Typically, personal bookmarks are stored inside the user’s browser. The ability of to store bookmarks on the web will mean better collaboration capabilities for students in the online version of Educ 463 -- Principles and Methods for Teaching Elementary School Mathematics. Read More...

Del.icio.us -- [ www.del.icio.us.com ] -- is a social bookmarking site that allows users to store bookmarks on the web instead of inside their browser. Users can share their bookmarks with any other member of the del.icio.us community. Read More...

Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskvitz, and Chris Hughes, is the most used “social networking” website in the world. It is followed in popularity by MySpace. It was launched on February 4, 2004. The name comes from the colloquial name university administrators give students at the start of an academic year. Read More...

Flickr -- [ www.flickr.com ] -- is a free photo sharing site where users can upload, organize, and share photos with anyone. Photos can be tagged and mapped for use in albums, slideshows and/or blogs. Flickr is one of many online photo galleries. Read More...

Google Docs -- [ www.google.com/educatos/p_apps.html ] -- consists of web-based word processing and spreadsheets. At this site allows for online document creation and real-time collaboration. Read More...

Ning -- [www.ning.com] -- is an online service where you can create, customize, and share your own social network like MySpace and Facebook. Read More...

Odeo (Odeo.com) is a directory and search destination website for RSS syndicated audio and video. It as created by Evan Williams and Noah Glass and is owned by Sonic Mountain. It was launched in July 2005. Read More...

Podcast is “an audio recording distributed online and accessed on computers or portable media players using free software such as iTunes or Blonlines (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2005, June). The word “podcast” comes from the words “iPod” and “broadcast.” Read More...

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) Feeds are a way of syndicating content that comes to readers from weblogs or in a more traditional space such as newspapers or magazines. Read More...

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. User-to-user Skype services are free. Landline and mobile phone calls can be made for a fee. Instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing can be done with Skype technology. Skype was developed by Ahti Heinla, Pritt Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. Read More...

Social bookmarking tools are information management strategies that allow members of a research/ classroom community to share websites. By contributing to the community, you benefit from the web searches conducted my others interested in the same research topics. Read More...

Social networking is a practice of sharing personal information and profiles online using text messaging, chatting, blogging, or viewing online communities like Facebook or My Space. Read More...

Tags are the keywords a person selects to help him/her remember important concepts in web resources. Tag Clouds are all the tags associated with a particular system of keywords. Tag Clouds are versions of “folkonomies” created by individuals. Read More...

TeacherTube is an educational version of YouTube. TeacherTube was launched in March 2007 and provides free online space for teachers and students sharing instructional and educational videos. Read More...

SurveyMonkey is the most popular web-based survey creation site for Fortune 100 companies and academic institutions. Survey can be created, taken, scored, and scored in an online environment. One hundred percent of the Fortune 100 companies use this survey creation site. Read More...

WebQuests are online educational experiences where students go to one or more websites to obtain academic information or engage in other inquiry-based learning activities. Read More...

Vodcasts will be another form of presentation that students in my online course might choose for their final class presentation. This option is made available to students because it gives visual students production, communication, and collaboration modes suited to students’ modality preference.

Wikis -- [ www.wikis.com ] offer collaboration tools that can be contributed to and edited by participants. (Wikipedia) Read More...

YouTube -- [www.youtube.com] and [www.teachertube.com] -- is an online video streaming service that allows users to view and share videos of many different formats. Read More...

Zoomerang [www.zoomerang.com] is a commercial product that allows individuals to create online surveys to collect data and share feedback. “Zoomerang Basic” is a free version of this commercial software. It is owned by MarketTools, Inc. and was launched in 1999. Read More...