Tools for the Digital Body allow you to enhance your on-line presence by participating in or creating a website, wiki, or other location on the web where you can build communities, place content, and additional tools such as:

eLearning Tool Links Dimdim - a virtual classroom. Has a few glitches but works pretty well, is simple and free. Can be server based or used online. I found using notepad to copy paste text was better than direct typing on the whiteboard but it may have been my connection. wiziq - another free virtual classroom and conferencing host. I have found dimdim better at this stage (simpler) but this is a rapidly evolving area. LAMS - simple is not always that simple. LAMS (says about itself) 'is a revolutionary new tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative learning activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can include a range of individual tasks, small group work and whole class activities based on both content and collaboration'. Probably ok for control freaks but I find it too tedious and too structured. Multiple choice generator - A Complete Multiple-Choice includes traditional (right answer only) scoring with a full item analysis and know/don't know scoring all on the same test. Feeware. 2007 edublogawards http://edublogawards.com/and-the-winners-are/ Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (UK) More than online courses! Discover new trends, technologies and tools http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/bulletin/2008-06.html A nifty little communication tool (very simple!): Allows video chat, video messages and 6 way conferences. No registration needed. SImple and works well. tokbox.com

Videos, photos, RSS Feeds, Affiliate marketing products (for earning money), Voki's and much more!

These tools and others become easier to use as more Web Widgets become available for placing options into your web-pages.

A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.

Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the start of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. It could be said that the original web widgets were the link counters and advertising banners that grew up alongside the early web. Later, ad and affiliate networks used code widgets for distribution purposes.

A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are third party originated, though they can be home made. Widgets are also known as modules, snippets, and plug-ins.

The first widely syndicated web widget, Trivia Blitz, was introduced in 1997. It was a java game applet offered by Uproar.com embedded on 15,200 websites as of December 31, 1998 and 36,100 websites as of December 31, 1999. It spread virally through an "add this game to your website" button. Sites that carried the game ranged from Geocities and Tripod personal pages to CNN and Tower Records. Uproar paid sites a referral fee for new users that registered through the widget. When Uproar.com was acquired by Vivendi Universal in 2001, the widget was discontinued.

Widgets are now commonplace and are used by bloggers, social network users, auction sites and owners of personal web sites. They exist on home page sites such as iGoogle, MySurfPad.com, Netvibes, Pageflakes, SpringWidgets and yourminis. Widgets distribution platforms such as Clearspring are now used to seed and distribute widgets as Rich media Advertisement units. Media and entertainment companies are increasingly using widgets to run Ad campaign's. Widgets are used as a distribution method by ad networks such as Google’s AdSense, by media sites such as Flickr, by video sites such as YouTube and by hundreds of other organizations.

Use these tools to enhance your own Digital Bodies presence on the World Wide Web.