Want to start a wiki, form or a blog? This matrix allows you to compare features for a variety of services: http://www.weblogmatrix.org/ (For blogs, I vote for TypePad!)
Wondering about what happens when you reveal aspects of your self online? See the Future of Reputation...then think before you post! http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Future-of-Reputation/text.htm
Team project for class? Want to connect with peer learners or friends who share an interest? Here are some tools:
Find a community, start a community on LearnHub: http://learnhub.com/communities
Find a social network, create a social network on Ning: http://www.ning.com/
Start a community, teach a class on edu2.0: http://www.edu20.org/
Add community features to your website with kick Apps: http://www.kickapps.com/
Celebrate Earth Day by learning about wind power http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/
and by joining the Sierra Club and reading the blog!
Thanks to all who joined us for the Elluminate session today. It is great to see the interest, experimentation and research being done in this important area. We hope that our Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy will add to the literature, and motivate others to write about and share their own work in electronic collaboration.
If you missed the session or would like to see it again, please click through or cut and past this link to access the recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2008-04-22.0754.M.CE3C5FD168E167A73A9F1FA6B0DB14.vcr
Capella's excellent Online Writing Center is now open to the public-- it lives outside the University 
firewall. While some services are offered for learners only, the excellent Writing Handbook and a lot of great handouts are available.
Online Collaborative Integration:
Working Across Disciplines
May 21 at 1 pm EST
(-5 hours GMT, see www.timeanddate.com for your time zone)
Janet Salmons, PhD and Lynn Wilson, PhD
FREE but registration is required at http://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/description?instance_id=11024
Join me and Lynn Wilson, my co- editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, for a lively conversation! We will present our Collaborative Integration Paradigm and discuss examples of online collaboration in educational or workplace contexts. The Collaborative Integration Paradigm offers a conceptual framework for exploring fundamental questions about the collaborative process: When we understand the nature of the project, the players and the goals, we can be more successful in planning complex collaborative work that bridges geographic, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Bring your ideas, questions and dilemmas and participate in this interactive webinar. See you online! Janet
Here is a great resource-- an amazing collection of work!
Hands-On Knowledge Co-Creation and Sharing: Practical Methods and Techniques is online for free download. It has three sections: Share and Connect, Measure and Analyse, Plan and Improve.
For a summary of the book including chapter listings and link to download etc.:
http://www.edmitche
Or for those who just want the direct download (9MB .zip file):
http://cic.vtt.
Go Green Database
http://www.edutopia
This is aimed at the K-12 educators but the materials may have wider applicability.
Students, teachers, administrators, and environmental activists have found ways to integrate knowledge and awareness of Earth's fragility into classwork and community service, carefully blending concern with action to help kids feel engaged and hopeful. We try to do the same
with this Go Green Database, a directory that can be searched by topic, grade level, cost, or location -- and supplemented with your contributions and comments.
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Thanks to Learning is For Everyone, Inc.
www.Learningis4everyone.org
I will be presenting two, two-part webinars as part of Elluminate’s live event series. The webinars are free; register at http://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/schedule?etn=training;demo&eef=0.
Conflict in Collaboration: From Getting Along to Getting Things Accomplished
You are invited to join Janet Salmons, PhD and Lynn Wilson, PhD for a webinar: Conflict in Collaboration: From Getting Along to Getting things Accomplished, on September 20 at 11 am EST, on Trainerspod. The webinar is free but registration is necessary. Register here: http://www.trainerspod.com/register/?id=JSalmons3.
What kind of conflict is productive in collaborative efforts—and what kind of conflict obstructs progress toward collaborative outcomes? How can you tell the difference and what can you do about it? What issues are critical when the collaboration takes place in the virtual environment? These are some of the questions we’ll explore from both theoretical and practical perspectives in this webinar.
We will draw from our experience with collaborative efforts in and across disciplines including education and training, business and leadership, the arts, environmental science, government and the social sector. Lynn and Janet are editors of the forthcoming book, A Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy.html)
The webinar will be interactive, using Elluminate’s shared whiteboard, chat area and voice over Internet. While you can use the text features without a microphone, we encourage you to use a simple headset or microphone with the computer’s speakers, so that you can participate in the live conversation. Trainerspod webinars normally run for about an hour and a half.
Come and join in the conversation! Pass the word to anyone who might be interested in this live (and lively) discussion!
Mark your calendar for our future webinars on Trainerspod:
Visit the Archives:
The two previous events in the Collaboration Series are archived on the site at http://trainerspod.com/CMS, under the eBusiness category (free registration is needed to access them). The titles of previous webinars in the series are:
