PB Wiki

PB Wiki: Free, easy to use wiki hosting.  Includes WYSIWYG editor easy set up. Wikis can be personal, public or for groups.

Ameritocracy

Ameritocracy: Social site of political news and quotes with focus on evaluating the information. Users judge the accuracy, credibility and relevancy of claims made by leaders, media outlets and businesses, as well as those contributions from other users.

Timetoast

Timetoast: Timeline creator site. Have students pick topic and create virtual timeline of major events on that topic or person, including properly citing their sources?

Edmodo

Edmodo: Microblogging platform designed specifically for education.

Amberjack

Amberjack: Site tour creator software. Possibly have exercise where students create a tour of a couple major resources in their field of study or on their research topic and explain/show why they could be considered useful/scholarly (i.e., web eval skills)?

uTipu

uTipu: Used to record/share screen capture videos. You can record your desktop activity with audio. You can then upload the video to uTipu, send out invitations and have people rate it/leave comments. Great also as a backup for demoing apps in virtual environment. My library: http://www.utipu.com/app/tips/from/danahlongley/

iCue

iCue: NBC multimedia site for evaluating, commenting and learning about news and issues. Includes quizzes and games.

Diigo

Diigo: Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping.  Share content, add friends, and create groups to share bookmarks and participate in group discussion forums.

Libguides

Libguides is a subscription service where librarians can create research guides.  Replaces class handouts. Can also be integrated into a CMS or website via custom widgets.

You can view a brief screencast demo of the Empire State College implementation of this tool here: http://www.utipu.com/app/tip/id/4452

Stumbleupon

You can use Stumbleupon to surf the web to discover and share websites.  Jump from site to site based on criteria provided by you. Use the thumbs up/down rating system to recommend sites to other users.