The following 10 Internet resources for educators were recently reviewed in an article in Leadership Magazine.

These Web-based tools can help you connect to learning resources, network with your peers and enhance productivity.

Twitter - A site that aggregates messages of no more than 140 characters onto a user created Web page. other users can follow those updates.
http://www.twitter.com

Facebook - An online social networking site that allows users to connect with friends, join groups, and share resources with user-created networks with a variety of different permission levels for private or public posting.
http://www.facebook.com

Blogger - One of several free resources offered through Google. The term "blog" is an abbreviation for "Web log." A blog was formerly simply a place to to post diary style personal reflections, but it has evolved to involve photos, videos, links, and just about any media source.
http://blogger.com

LearnCentral is a newer but extremely promising resource to catalyze ongoing improvements in education. LearnCentral is focused on connectivity, inspiring global sharing for productivity and effectiveness.
http://www.learncentral.org

Wiki - A wiki is a Web site that uses a specific type of software to collaboratively create Web page content. There are many available including Wikispaces, PBwiki, and others.
http://www.wikispaces.com
http://www.pbworks.com

YouTube - YouTube is a site that allows ordinary computer users to post videos online. There are over 144 million videos available for viewing. Video uploading and its uses in education are vast and tap into the creativity of students, teachers and educational leaders.
http://www.youtube.com

TokBox - TokBox is a free video communication service that provides video calls and chats, instant messaging, video mail and video blogging. It allows web based video conferencing.
http://www.tokbox.com

Flickr - Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application with almost 8 million users.
http://www.flickr.com

Doodle - Doodle is a productivity tool used to schedule meetings or take polls. It elliminates the needs for ongoing emails or phone calls to when everyone for your meeting is available to meet.
http://www.doodle.com

Other Sites of note:

Skype - free phone calls and two way video conferencing over the Internet
http://www.skype.com

Delicious - a social bookmarking site
http://www.delicious.com

Diigo - Another more sophisticated social bookmarking site.
http://www.diigo.com

TinyChat - free disposable chat rooms with live video and audio
http://www.tynychat.com

Wordles - Produces word clouds
http://www.wordle.net