Social+Media+Tools


 * Blogging Tools**
 * [|Blogger]**
 * Free Blogging Service From Google
 * [|WordPress]**
 * Blogging Site that supports Multiple Pages
 * [|Typepad]**
 * Simple Blogging Service


 * Chat Room Tools**
 * [|Todays Meet]**
 * All you have to do is put in name of chat room, it gives you a url, which you can give to participants and use as a back channel way for people to comment
 * [|Cover It Live]**
 * Chat tool that creates chat room that can be used in real time
 * [|Tiny Chat]**
 * Allows you to create video chat rooms easily
 * [|Rumble Talk]**
 * A website plug in allowing chat on your site in real time
 * [|99 Chats]**
 * A Chat room tool that can be embedded on blogs and websites


 * Message Board Tools**
 * [|We Debate It]**
 * Easy set up message boards allowing your class to post questions and debate
 * [|Debate.org]**
 * Allows users to post and organize debates in a message board format
 * [|Forums]**
 * Easy to use forum builder


 * Online Learning Communities**
 * [|Edmodo] **
 * An online platform for sharing student work, videos, links, and many other things
 * [|Edu 2.0]**
 * An easy way to create online learning communities
 * [|Collaborize Classroom]**
 * Free online learning community where teachers can create discussions, poll students, and post classroom resources
 * [|Learnable]**
 * A place where users can set up and take online courses
 * [|Lexxing]**
 * An online learning community that connects people to help understand a foriegn language
 * [|Sophia]**
 * A social learning community that lets you teach what you know and learn what you don't
 * [|Udemy]**
 * Create online courses through video
 * [|Schoology]**
 * Very similar to Facebook, but built with all of the protections that schools would need in mind.


 * Social Conferencing**
 * [|Big Marker]**
 * Allows you to create a multimedia stream of presentation content that can be shared with others
 * [|Voice Thread]**
 * Allows you to have group conversations around images, video, and audio


 * Social Networking Tools**
 * [|Google+]**
 * A social network that allows you to group friends into certain groups. Theoretically, teachers could have a separate group for students and the students would only see the updates for that group eliminating some of the issues with facebook.
 * [|Poll My Tweets]**
 * Simply by adding a poll specific hashtag to your tweet site turns twitter into a poll
 * [|Everloop]**
 * A social network built for tweens with all of the needed privacy protections
 * [|Mixxt]**
 * Allows users to create a controlled online community
 * [|Hoot Me]**
 * By allowing the application access to your facebook account finds people for you to study with and turns facebook into a study group