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Web-Based Applications

Blogger
Blogger is a free blogging tool which can be used by teachers to provide course information, and by students to record their activities while working on assignments or in the workplace.

Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking service for storing sharing and discovering web bookmarks.  This allows your bookamrks to travel with you.  You can also create RSS feeds of relevant bookmarks into your online courses.

Edublogs
Edublogs is a blogging tool specifically designed for use in education.  They currently host thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians and administrators around the world.

Flickr
Flickr is a free image and video hosting website.  Images can be uploaded and tagged for easy searching and placed in public or private galleries.

Google
Google offer far more than just internet search.  Blogs, document sharing, discussion boards, photo and video storage, instant messaging, software and more.

Survey Monkey
Survey Monkey is a survey-generating application.  Used by lecturers to gather feedback on courses.  Surveys can also be incorporated into Blackboard courses.  There is more information on how the college surveys students formally (including the use of Survey Monkey) on the Quality and Research Unit's site (on- campus access only).

Wikispaces

Wikispaces is a tool for creating simple web pages that can be edited collaboratively.

Zoho

Zoho Office Suite is an online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and more.