This page gives descriptions ofspecific name brand tools. For an overview of all tools, their features and pricing models click here.

Saywire - A complete set ofweb 2.0 tools for learning. Saywire's free service includes a private online community for your school or class.
Tools included are blogs, wikis, internal email, media hosting and organization, groups, friends and more. School's using Saywire find that their student's are more engaged in the learning process and therefore achieve better results. Saywire is first a academic and social networking environment and a learning management system second.

Moodle - An open source learning management system.

Elgg - An open source learning management system.

Skype - Tool that enables voice, video and text conversations on the web. Skype is particularly useful in reducing long distance phone call costs and recording conversations for podcasting and other uses.

Flickr - Photo sharing website that enable social activity such as taggingphotos.

Search engines - Software that enables people to search for specific items on the web. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask are a few of the most popular search engines.

Social networks - Online gathering and conversation spaces.

Facebook - Started in 2005 to help students on college campuses connect with each other Facebook is now open to anyone who would like to join. It is more utility focused and less advertising driven than MySpace. Facebook also allows other software developers to provide services on it's platform.

MySpace - Started as a destination for bands to connect with their audiences, MySpace has grown to be one of the most popular online social experiences. Participants can create blogs, chat, upload photos, videos and audio.

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iPod - Apple's portable media player. This handheld device can store up to 80GB of music, photos, videos and documents. That's as much as some laptop computers. The iPod is known for it's stylish look and feel along with it's reliability and ease of use with Apple's iTunes.

iTunes - A free software distributed by Apple Corporation that enables people to purchase and download mainstream media including music and movies of all lengths. The software also serves as an RSS reader or aggregator, it enables us to subscribe to RSS feeds and keeps them organized. You can think of it as a 21st Century mailbox for audio and video content.

ClassScene - ClassScene is an online solution for schools to showcase, organize and archive all of the photos and videos that are being produced year after year in a safe, secure and controlled manner. It also provides a way to generate revenue back to your school.