Enhance Community Within Large Courses -
Ideas and Suggestions from Respondents to TLT-SWG Listserv Request March 15, 2004

https://www.tltgroup.org/ExamBCTLTSWG.htm

Blogcity

Blogcity.com offers free or upgraded blog & journal hosting services which include an extemely powerful online blogging system that is easy with many great features.
http://www.blogcity.com/portal.php

Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant

A sophisticated communication tool that brings powerful World-Wide-Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. Nicenet provides the ICA free of charge with no advertising. The ICA runs on Nicenet's server and requires any web browser running on any platform and an Internet connection - there is no software to download and no server to configure.
http://www.nicenet.org

WebIQ

WebIQ is a tool that supports collaboration and consensus building. With this tool you can have your students or participants brainstorm ideas, comment on them, and rate, rank and/or vote on them.
http://www.webiq.umd.edu/

WebChat

WebChat is a multimedia asynchronous chat tool that allows students to include pictures, sound, or video with their comments. Links to other web sites can also be embedded in their comments. The software that "runs" the chatting application
resides on the web server. The only software that the user needs is a web browser..
http://www.otal.umd.edu/webchat.html

Yahoo Groups

Yahoo groups is an easy way for groups to communicate via the internet. Provides free threaded discussion in an easy-to-use (often already familiar) environment.
http://groups.yahoo.com/

Survey Administrator

Survey Administrator, is a web-based quiz/survey/questionnaire development tool
available for use by faculty and staff at the university. Access is through the use of an individual's university ID number and PIN. Users create their own surveys or quizzes, adding items and selecting a format for each one. Formats available are Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, Likert-Style (agree/disagree), True/False, Yes/No, Short Answer, Essay, Comment, and Fill-in-the-Blank.
http://cgi.umd.edu/survey/admin

Survey Monkey

Survey Administrator, is a web-based quiz/survey/questionnaire development tool
available for use for free for a limited number of questions and features (or for a fee for extended capability.)Users create their own surveys or quizzes, adding items and selecting a format for each one.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Zoomerang

Create short-term online surveys, quizes or feedback forms for free. Results will be tabulated and sent back to you via email.
http://www.zoomerang.com

The Virtual Lightbox

The Virtual Lightbox is a software tool for comparing images online. It exists in two versions, an application and an applet (both programmed in Java). The applet version, which is newly developed, furnishes what we believe to be an extremely flexible environment for online image comparison. Its primary audience is developers who wish to add an image comparison tool to a Web-based image collection.
http://mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/

Photomesa

PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser. It allows the user to view multiple directories of images at once, and uses simple navigation commands to smoothly zoom in and out.
http://www.windsorinterfaces.com/photomesa.shtml