This document outlines and provides examples of various online collaboration and communication tools for educators, including blogs, wikis, podcasts, vodcasts, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, social networking sites, and Ning networks. It discusses features of tools like WordPress, Wikispaces, podcasting and vodcasting sites, RSS directories, del.icio.us, Facebook, Twitter, and Ning. The document aims to help educators learn about and use these tools.

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4. Wikis – (meaning “quick” in Hawaiian) A collaborative web site allowing many authors to edit and modify the content. (http:// www.wikispaces.com /)

6. ** Vodcasting Uploading video onto a webpage. The Teachers Beehive: This site has useful advice on how to integrate ICT into your classroom using vodcasting . http://teachersbeehive.com/

8. Social Bookmarking – tag sites e.g. del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Furl http://www.furl.net/ diigo http://www.diigo.com/

10. * * Twitter Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets http://twitter.com/ **