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TakingITGlobal
http://www.takingitglobal.org/ TakingITGlobal is an international organization - led by youth and empowered by technology. TakingITGlobal connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a growing worldwide presence, the organization's flagship program? TakingITGlobal.org, serves as the most popular online community for young people interested in connecting across cultures and making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each month. TakingITGlobal works with global partners ?from UN agencies, to major companies, and especially youth organizations ?to build the capacity of youth for development, artistic and media expression, make education more engaging, and involve young people in global decision-making. |
 
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SharePoint Team Services
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/teamservices/evaluation/fastfacts/default.asp SharePoint Team Services is a team Web site solution you can use to create workspaces on an as-needed basis to manage group activities and produce shared deliverables. SharePoint Team Services is a team Web site solution that is designed to significantly improve the way your team manages information and activities. Now you can easily create a site that serves as the central repository of all project information?ocuments, contacts, tasks, discussions, and much more. SharePoint Team Services is the easiest way for any type of team or workgroup to use the Web to share information. All it takes is a Web browser and access to a corporate network or the Internet. Using preprogrammed Web-authoring forms, you can instantly create a full-feature Web site that your team can begin using immediately. Once the site is launched, team members can add, edit, and delete information using their Web browsers. Automatic hyperlink management maintains links to new material, while templates protect the overall navigational structure, individual page layouts, and design elements. Office XP works seamlessly with SharePoint Team Services, so you can save documents from within any Office application and copy calendars and contact lists directly from Microsoft Outlook?2002 and paste them directly into your team's Web site. |
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Assign-A-Day : Online application / Calendar plus
http://assignaday.4teachers.org/ Welcome to Assign-A-Day! This FREE tool is designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an on-line, teacher-managed calendar. Teachers create a calendar for each of their classes and add assignments for the students to view. Students view their teachers?calendars in order to see assignments for classes they might have missed, or to get an overview of the class. |
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SchoolNet Global
http://2002.schoolnetglobal.com Welcome to SchoolNet Global - the biggest children's contributory website in the world. This is where children around the world tell us about their lives, their interests, their families and communities at the turn of the 21st Century. SchoolNet Global is devoted to helping young people expand their understanding of people of other generations, backgrounds and cultures ?whether they live around the world or around the corner. The SchoolNet Global project started in 1998 in the UK. Since then over 130,000 young people, aged 5 to 18 have recorded their thoughts and feelings about life in the 21st Century, on over 50,000 web pages. School | community | communities | |
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ISville
http://www.isville.com/ Welcome to ISville (International Schoolers ville) - an exclusive online community built for the (K-12) International School Communities around the globe! Come join our newly-relaunched community - Share news, opinions and events from your school with over 1,600 Educator/Student members from 550 International School Communities! Reunite with your lost friends and colleagues! And many more! Welcome to ISville (International Schoolers Ville), an exclusive online community built for the International School Communities around the globe! - comprising of over 1,600 steadily growing members from 550 most prominent International Schools in the world. Here at ISville you can meet, share information and network with the fellow International Schoolers from all parts of the world. You can also find your old friends/colleagues and keep in touch with them as well. We launched ISville services in February 2000 to provide efficient communication, interactive community and informative contents to International School Community. online | community | listserv | forum | |
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SmartGroups
http://www.smartgroups.com/ SmartGroups is all about making life easier. It's a great, new way of organising the different groups of people in your life using email and the Internet. SmartGroups keeps you in touch, helps you to share information, manage events and even make Group decisions. Anyone can set up and run a Group. It's really quick, very easy and it's free! SmartGroups combines web-based Group information together with email messaging, keeping Group members updated of urgent or interesting Group issues. All SmartGroups members can control where, when and how they use the service to ensure it exactly fits their lifestyle and different Group interests. Each Group has a: homepage with basic Group information SmartGroups automatically sets it up) | message area | event calendar | files area | picture albums | voting area | classified ads | simple database system | management area | |
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The MirandaNet Community
http://www.mirandanet.ac.uk The MirandaNet Community - Supporting web based communities of practice |
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Effective online education communities
http://www.intuitivemedia.com Intuitive Media creates and manages online education projects for children, students, athletes, educators, medics, and government and corporate organisations. We aim to bring the full power of the Internet - for creativity, communication and collaboration - into the hands of the people who matter. That means you - your children, your teachers, your doctors. GridClub continues to grow in popularity amongst Key Stage 2 pupils. The beginning of the new school year brings a little sadness to GridClub, as older members graduate to Secondary school and out of our community. It used to be SchoolNet 2000, but now SchoolNet Global, the biggest children's education site in the world is opening its doors to children and teachers outside the UK. online | communities | community | platform | |
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Online Communities - Vehicles For Professional Learning?
http://www.ultralab.net/papers/ Online Communities - Vehicles For Professional Learning? The use of online communities for professional learning is an emerging field, particularly in education in the UK. Do the benefits claimed for their use manifest in learning gains, when considering the school improvement agenda? How far are we able to turn the rhetoric into some form of reality and how are we trying to do that? This paper reports findings from our experience with online learning communities in three contexts. elearning | e-learning | online | communities | research | |
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think.com from Oracle (free)
http://www.think.com/ think.com from Oracle ... Free and designed specifically for schools. We use the Internet to create a global learning community that connects students and teachers. Think.com provides tools that foster communication and collaboration in a structured and protected environment. It's a free service without advertising? It's provided by Oracle; the company that powers the Internet wants to make sure nobody is left behind. The possibilities are endless! Each member has their own web site and personal file cabinet to showcase their work. Members are provided with easy-to-use tools, promoting creative expression. listerv | forum | software | ASP | |
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