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mySchoolog - Organize Your School Life Online
http://www.myschoolog.com
mySchoolog - Organize Your School Life Online
... an online service which primary, high school and university students can organize their school life online.
They can save their notes, to-dos, files and schedules. They can also export data and carry them wherever they go.
Students can access their mySchoolog account from home, school and anywhere they want.
Create your lessons, build your schedule, upload your files and carry them with you, store your notes and to-do's.

Tutors Office
http://www.tutorsoffice.com/
Tutor's Office was created with a simple goal - help tutors. Help tutors to minimize their "office" work and let focus on what they do best - tutoring. Tutor's Office was launched in fall of 2008 and we are overwhelmed with response from tutors around the globe.
Manage your tutoring schedule
-Track lessons history
-Organize your student data
-Keep track of your student performance
-Manage your tutoring finances (payments, expenses, invoicing, tax preparation)
-Help you and your students never miss a thing with To-Dos and reminders
Basic Plan (10 students) is free

Classtell
http://mashable.com/2008/10/19/classtell/
Classtell Keeps Teachers and Students in Sync Outside the Classroom
If you’re a teacher of a particular class in the K-12 bracket, and you would enjoy a quick and inexpensive way to piece together a website with all the necessary trappings to a schoolroom environment - such as a homework page, contact field, calendar, and perhaps even a grade report to be privately or publicly accessible - a service called Classtell maybe just what you’re looking for.
For the sum total of $20 CAD per year (a price which follows a free 90-day trial), you’re given a reasonably detailed editor in which to place whatever files, text, images, etc., that form the basics of the class syllabus and any things pertaining to your curriculum as school days progress.

Haiku LMS
http://www.haikuls.com/
Haiku LMS
Create online lessons with articles, images, audio, and video for your class.
Manage discussions, auto-grade assessments, and track scores through a gradebook.
Organize, manage and deliver course content, assignments and assessments.
Securely conduct discussions, exchange messages, take attendance and collect & grade homework. Minutes is all it takes to get things done.
Implement a school or institution-wide classroom-to-student communication system. Whether delivering resources or report cards, haiku LMS committment to simplicity helps you shine in your community.

BuddySchool
http://www.buddyschool.com/
BuddySchool, a platform for people who want to study or tutor online.
In BuddySchool teachers and students meet to study online.
The possibilites during the lesson are limitless. Usually the teacher and student would be talking on Internet communicators (Skype, MS Messanger etc.), but they could also be chatting, co-browsing or even meeting face-to-face. BuddySchool makes no restrictions, only keeps track of the time and informs them when it is up.
BuddySchool helps teachers and students meet, schedule lessons and take care of payments, but during the actual lesson they use IM (Instant Messaging) and Internet telephony (or VoIP: Voice over IP) applications like Skype, MS Messenger or Google Talk. There is no need to install any additional software beyond that.
Payments for lessons are carried out between the teacher and student, using the method of their choice (PayPal, Credit Card, Bank transfer etc.). BuddySchool helps to keep track of all payments by a system of invoicing.

GlobalScholar
http://www.globalscholar.com/
GlobalScholar
GlobalScholar was founded by a group of visionary leaders who share a passion to reshape education. Our mission is to integrate and align all the resources of education – parents, students, tutors, teachers, administrators, and content – to improve efficiency, performance, and educational access both inside and outside the classroom.
GlobalScholar.com offers a unique online tutoring platform, where parents and students can safely connect with trusted educators who provide one-on-one tutoring, homework help or self-paced learning.
The GlobalScholar platform also can be used by schools and school districts to enable teachers and administrators to more efficiently and effectively create, manage and align content, assessments, curriculum, standards and supplemental learning to drive educational performance.

LiveBlackboard
http://www.liveblackboard.com
LiveBlackboard is a complete web-based training program for corporations, government agencies, and educational institutions.
It allows schools, instructors, trainers, or corporations to create self-paced or instructor-led online courses.
A flexible learning management system for administrator, student, customer, and instructors without technical experience. All you need is a web-browser and Internet connection to use the platform. It offers a full range of interactions as standard and it is compliant to the AICC standard for web based training.
There is customisable portal page and the software has a built-in accounting system and it is e-commerce ready. Students are able to track course vacancies, enrol online and make online payments ...

Studeous : connecting your classroom
http://www.studeous.com
Studeous : connecting your classroom
We created Studeous because we believe that education is priceless. The Learning Management Systems (LMS) currently available may be poorly designed and too expensive. The open source systems possibly are too confusing and difficult to maintain. Finally, an easy to use, intuitive, and safe LMS is available to the academic world for free.
Studeous is completely free. We don't care if your entire school runs on it, we will never charge you
The only information people can see is your name and email address, and you can even make your email address private if you want. As a teacher, you have total control over who has access to your class page and any content you post. You can remove your account at any time.

ALISON
http://alison.com/
ALISON* is a free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners.
The mission of ALISON is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive self-paced multimedia. It is our belief that through ALISON, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed.
Through the ALISON learning platform we can assist people around the world in educating themselves, thereby creating a more equitable and sustainable global society.

Tutorom
http://www.tutorom.com/
Learn. Teach. Collaborate. Online Elearning the tutorom way.
Access thousands of lessons or use our tools to create and control access to your own courses, collaborate with colleagues and much more.
Create tutorials online, share educational resources and collaborate with colleagues. Anyone can create their own courses, and either charge for them, restrict access to them, or deliver as public courses - with advertising revenues being split between the service and the author.

Yacapaca
http://yacapaca.com/demo/
Yacapaca is a completely free, collaborative assessment platform that is particularly popular in international schools.
You can get your class doing quizzes, tests, surveys and eportfolios within minutes, and see the analysis of automarked, analysed results as soon as they have finished. Set assessments for classwork or homework.
Create your own assessment material either by yourself or in collaboration with colleagues from around the world, or simply use the existing growing resource bank covering every curriculum subject.

mynoteIT
http://www.mynoteit.com/
mynoteIT
Take, edit and share notes online | Easily search and share notes | Manage tasks with your to-do list | Manage assignments with your calendar | Stay in the loop with class groups |

Chalksite
http://www.chalksite.com/
Chalksite ... it's the quickest, simplest route to expanding your classroom onto the internet.
Teachers, students and parents have a central point to access grading, assignments, discussions and messaging. Chalksite is a total web package designed just for teachers, giving you a personal website and tools you actually need without requiring an IT degree to use them.

Wiz IQ
http://www.wiziq.com/
Wiz IQ
WiZiQ is an online learning platform for distance education.
Teachers and students can sign up free and interact in virtual classrooms using excellent communication tools and whiteboards.
Teachers can set their hourly teaching charges and teaching hours and can teach multiple students.

Eduvo School 2.0
http://www.eduvo.com
Eduvo is a flexible, easy to use, all-in-one web-based Learning Management System (LMS) built especially for International Baccalaureate (IB) schools.
It provides everything you need to unleash the power of School 2.0 technology without the headaches, training, and chaos common with traditional IT.

Curriki
http://www.curriki.org
Curriki, a play on the words curriculum and wiki, is a nonprofit organization that is building the first and only Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which will provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.
We are focusing initially on developing an online repository for K-12 curricula in the areas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, and languages. We want this repository to attract everyone from educators, students and parents, to programmers, instructional designers, authors and public officials throughout the world to contribute or freely access quality learning materials.
Curriki is different in two ways:
(1) we focus on a complete curricula solution, not just a textbook or lesson plans, but a comprehensive course of instruction and assessment. Curriki.org will include easy-to-use tools for creating curriculum packets out of content assets available on the site.
(2) We have a unique approach to curriculum development, distribution and evaluation that is represented by the organizations 3-D model: curriculum developed through community contributors, delivered globally and whose impact is determined by project and by individual.

Inside the Net 35: Digication (audio interview)
http://www.twit.tv/itn35
Inside the Net 35: Digication
Listen to an interview with Jeffrey Yan of Digication
Digication is a newly launched social networking site for educators and students offering free service to up to 1000 students.

Digication
http://www.digication.com/
Digication
Designed by educators for educators, Digication Campus & Spotlight bring teachers and students together in a seamless learning environment. Easy to master. Simple to use. With all the connectivity, file sharing and e-portfolio tools educators and students want. And none of the bureaucratic back-office stuff they don't need.
Campus is a web-based classroom for teachers and students. You can post assignments. Share ideas. Talk. Listen. Learn collaboratively. Get and give help. Post articles. Record grades. Collaborate online. And digitally archive the entire educational experience.

Gogofrog : 3D Web Space
http://www.gogofrog.com/
Gogofrog : 3D Web Space
A Gogofrog site really is a Web site. Just a little bit weird. It's a 360-degree Web space that you can choose to navigate with the arrow keys.
To create a Gogofrog account, all you need to do is decide on a site name (also your username), create a password, and provide your email address. (Note: We keep your email address PRIVATE.)
web 2.0 | free |

ELGG
http://elgg.org/
ELGG : Started in March 2004
The concept behind the system is to develop a fully customizable learning landscape. To achieve this Elgg is a hybrid of weblogging, e-portfolios and social networking.
It is hoped this combination of features will provide an engaging environment for learners to create their own learning space and then connect to others, forming online communities of learning.
There are two options to get an Elgg account. You can register for an individual account hosted by Elgg or you can take the system and install it on your own server. Elgg is an open source application.
Elgg has been developed to serve as a stand alone personal learning landscape or as a complimentary addition to existing learning environments. The emphasis with Elgg is very much on the learner. Elgg looks to give learners the means to control and own their own development and growth through the use of everyday web technologies.

BeanArena - Cutting Edge Education
http://www.beanarena.com
BeanArena is an interactive Educational Management System for teachers and parents. Manage classrooms, students, lessons, assessments and documents in a rich, interactive environment.
Basic account is free | web 2.0 |

Shambles main eLearning area
http://www.shambles.net/elearning/
Shambles main eLearning area including other links to traditional elearning Platforms, VLE, MLS, IMS, LMS, CMS

Nuvvo : Learning Management System
http://www.nuvvo.com/
Nuvvo is a Learning Management System (LMS) powered by Savvica and designed for the individual instructor.
It's the first system of its kind to offer individual teachers, professors, tutors, and trainers their own Online Learning Portal from which to run courses and teach students. web 2.0 style
Nuvvo is your way to teach on the web. Everyone knows a little bit about something, and this free, AJAX-enhanced eLearning web service is designed to bring out the teacher in all of us. Sign up and build a course in minutes; advertise your course on our eLearning Market to get the word out. Get teaching with Nuvvo, Web 2.0's answer to eLearning.