Yahoo Groups is a site where you can create a group space. Here can can access a shared message archive, group event, calendars, members polls and shared links
- Website/Availability: groups.yahoo.com
- Cost: Free
- Available: Online
- Top 100 Tools 2010: -
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- Top 100 Tools 2007: 50=
Comments from those who selected Yahoo Groups as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
- “My favourite way to communicate with the groups and communities I belong to.” Cristina Mendes Da Costa
- “I don’t understand why more courses aren’t hosted on sites like this. Online groups offer free, robust do-it-yourself websites that provide e-mail-based message boards, file and photo storage, polling (aka quizzing), and simple database features.” Jane Bozarth
Comments from those who selected Yahoo Groups as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
- “Free, robust do-it-yourself websites that provide e-mail-based message boards, file and photo storage, polling (aka quizzing),and simple database features. Can be repurposed for hosting an e-learning course or replicating an LMS to host a whole catalog. (See Jane’s website for examples.)” Jane Bozarth
- “Well, if it weren’t for the wonderful members of the Learning with computers community I wouldn’t have learned so much.” Ana Maria Menezes
- “My favourite language teaching mail groups are there and it is a very good service” Jose Luis Cabello
- “what I use when I need to quickly set up an online community” Lisa Neal
- “a free service where groups of people who share common interests can interface” Ramona Dietrich
