Ensemble Project at Texas A&M

A web site where the community shares and collaborates on free and open source curricula

A free, community supported social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. 

Lets you create and join new social networks for your interests

Social networking courses emphasize goal setting and the process and use of the social capital within one's social network to acheive that goal or objective, creating a critical life long tool for the student.

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. This project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. It provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems.

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows users to leave comments in five ways.
It supports various formats of documents (PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), images, and videos and users can imports photos from Flickr, Facebook, or from the web.

In VoiceThread, users can add voice and written commentary to the overall video, picture or document via voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

An open source software (Croquet SDK) that can be used by experienced software developers to create and deploy deeply collaborative multi-user online virtual world applications on and across multiple operating systems and devices.
It features a peer-based messaging protocol that dramatically reduces the need for server infrastructures to support virtual world deployment and makes it easy for software developers to create deeply collaborative applications.

A software platform for interacting with 3D computer graphics.
3D models created with the commercial program could be explored socially using a free browser plugin.

It spent the majority of its lifetime in beta testing.
It's beta-testing community, whose members constructed many worlds and avatars, promoted the software by word of mouth, and conducted community events, such as world tours and building contests.
The largest of these contests was Star Wars 3D, a large-scale effort to create a comprehensive set of worlds and avatars based on the Star Wars trilogy.