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1. Organization

• College Ruled – This site allows you to create a class schedule and a private message board for classmates that you can link to from Facebook.
• Myschoolog – Web 2.0 app that lets students create schedules and organize their school life online.
• 30 Boxes – This easy to use online calendar from 30 Boxes gives you the ability to plot your calendar and track RSS feeds in one spot.
• Groupvine – Great organizing tool for study groups and other campus organizations.
• Backpack – Award-winning web 2.0 app that lets you prepare schedules, calendars, files and information that you can share with other people.

2. Note Taking

• SyncNotes – Create, manage and synchronize your notes with SyncNotes’ free service.
• The Awesome Highlighter – This time-saving web 2.0 app lets you highlight text on web pages, and then generates a link to a new page that shows the same text with highlights.
• Note Mesh – NoteMesh is a web 2.0 app that allows college students in the same classes to share notes online using a wiki set-up.
• mynoteIT – Take notes, upload notes, scan notes, share notes and access notes from your mobile phone with mynoteIT.
• Short Text – Create, share and store notes online with ShortText.com.

3. Homework

• Gradefix – A quick and convenient homework management system from Gradefix.
• Google Docs – Create, upload, share and store documents, spreadsheets and presentations with this beta tool from Google.
• OttoBib – This site will automatically configure your bibliography using one of five styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, BibTeX or Wikipedia.
• Calcoolate – This web 2.0 app is for students who need help calculating complex mathematical equations.
• Flashcard Exchange – Print flashcards, create flashcards and study online with Flashcard Exchange, the world’s largest flashcard library.

4. Research

• Diigo – This web 2.0 app is a research tool, an online highlighter and a knowledge-sharing community.
• Zotero – Zotero is a Firefox extension that allows you to collect, manage and cite your research.
• Scholarpedia – A free encyclopedia written and reviewed by scholars around the world.
• del.icio.us – One of the most popular bookmarking tools on the web, del.icio.us lets you bookmark websites and tag them for easy retrieval.
• WhatsOnMyBookshelf – This site allows you to meet people with similar reading interests and trade books using a simple point system.

5. Networking

• Facebook – Facebook was started for students and is still one of the best social networking sites for students on the web.
• YackPack – YackPack lets you record and store audio messages that only a select group of people can access–a great way to communicate with fellow classmates.
• The Campus Center – This social networking site is great for students who want to connect with other people in their major and create study groups with people around the world.
• Campus Bug – Campus Bug is a social learning network that provides education and social networking tools.
• The Student Center – A networking and student resource site just for students from Student.com.