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Have a look at http://www.supercoolschool.com/ Is it what you were thinking about?
In France we have beebac, it's a great website, very useful. (url : http://www.beebac.com ). I'm not sure about the US-friendly educational social networks..
It's worth looking at what OpenCourseWare are doing, as well as university-centric networks like the British Open University's OpenLearn. I co-founded an educational social network called Elgg.net in 2004 (which later became Eduspaces.net when Elgg's scope grew from education into an open source social networking platform for all), and I've been watching this space carefully. There have been quite a few services whic…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351871
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353756
Don't have money to work on it, right now. :(
It's worth looking at what OpenCourseWare are doing, as well as university-centric networks like the British Open University's OpenLearn. I co-founded an educational social network called Elgg.net in 2004 (which later became Eduspaces.net when Elgg's scope grew from education into an open source social networking platform for all), and I've been watching this space carefully. There have been quite a few services whic…
NB: I should have mentioned that I've moved on from Elgg and EduSpaces, and am not able to speak for either project.
Things are early on still so if you wanted to pitch in, you could be a lot of help.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
NB: I should have mentioned that I've moved on from Elgg and EduSpaces, and am not able to speak for either project.
We are building this very thing at www.nixty.com. Benwerd, I'm familiar with Elgg and have actually consulted with Harold Jarche a few times (several years ago). If either of you are interested, then I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Please send me an email at glen at nixty dot com.