Sunday, March 16, 2014

Useful Participatory Websites

Forums

Blogging 

  • WordPress allows you to start a wordpress blog or create a free website in seconds 
  • EduBlogs is a blog created for educational purposes; supports student and teaching learning by facilitating reflection, questioning by self and others, collaborating and providing contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking 
  • Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries 

Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a practice that allows those with sufficient attention, collaboration, and network know-how to multiply value of a public good which serves one's own self-interest



  • Delicious is a free and easy tool to save, organize, and discover interesting links on the web 
  • citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references 
  • Scoop.it! is a site where you can build engaged audiences through publishing by curation 
  • Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share you research sources 

Recommender Systems 

  • digg has the most interesting and talked about stories, videos, and pictures on the web
    • breaking news on technology, politics, entertainment, and more! 
  • StumbleUpon is the easiest way to find cool new websites, videos, photos, and images from across the web 
  • bubbl.us allows you to create colorful mind maps (brainstorming) to print or share with others 

Music 
  • Spotify is a free music streaming website available on all mobile devices and computers for unlimited durations; features like offline listening and ad-free playback are available for premium subscribers 
  • last.fm is a music discovery service that give you personalized recommendations based on the music you listen to 

RSS Feeds

  • Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats 

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