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Here are five ideas that will help you begin building your own personal learning network. 1. Read blogs related to your passion. Search out topics of interest at http://blogsearch.google.com and see who shares those interests. 2. Participate. If you find bloggers out there who are writing interesting and relevant posts, share your reflections and experiences by commenting on their posts. 3. Use your real name. It's a requisite step to be Googled well. Be prudent, of course, about divulging any personal information that puts you at risk, and guide students in how they can do the same. 4. Start a Facebook page. Educators need to understand the potential of social networking for themselves. 5. Explore Twitter (http://twitter.com), a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to exchange short updates of 140 characters or fewer. It may not look like much at first glance, but with Twitter, the network can be at your fingertips.

If you have files you would like to share, send the file, a short description, state or national standards (if available), and author and grade level band information to Matt Granger. I will use the information to post files here. Files will be posted by subject, topic, and grade level band.

Via Mark Dunk https://plus.google.com/u/0/110222956858595960408/posts

Features - Create unlimited stories and blogs from anywhere - Easily upload photos, video and audio - Post comments and likes - Keep connected with Buzz notifications - See the best work from 1000's of schools

via David Kapuler https://plus.google.com/105869951428386281310/posts/KHGtSpCumhM

For those of you who are super-confident about your iPad knowledge, I'd like to propose a challenge. Go through and see how many features and shortcuts you didn't know about, leave a comment with the number at the bottom of the post - and be honest!

What's a hashtag? Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your posts. Hashtags can be created by anyone simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #myhashtag.

Displaying Your Card * Feature rich interactive card fits naturally into your blog * Shown on retaggr enabled sites when you interact * Included in your email signature and forum posts

Archive will be posted here of the session.

A virtual drum roll please… We are thrilled to officially open the application process for the Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Program. Join us as we discover more of our incredible planet earth together with adventure trips to Australia, South Africa, and China. In order to participate in this pilot trip, you must be a STAR Discovery Educator. Not only are you able to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity, each STAR selected will be able to choose four of their students to join them on the adventure! This is at no cost to you or your students! So with no further ado… here's the official wording and post importantly the link to apply.

This is a must listen. A look at the future of leadership. Posting discussions and policy online for public viewing rather than locking it behind passwords or even keeping it hidden. Transparent and accountable leadership is BETTER leadership even for education.

Ongoing series of blog posts with different strategies for helping your students succeed during testing season by Porter Palmer.

1. Beware of "Posting Meetings" If you leave a meeting without action steps, then question the value of the meeting (especially if it is recurring). A meeting to "share updates" should actually be an e-mail.

"TeacherPlus Account A single teacher account gets unlimited access to all GoAnimate4Schools features, The teacher can also post animations to GoAnimate4Schools public gallery. Students accounts have access to following features: - Make animation up to 2 minutes long - Upload own music - Text-to-voice and voice recording "

Plagium is a service, now in beta test, of Septet Systems Inc. Septet Systems Inc. focuses on the development of innovative information search solutions for consumers, enterprises, government, academics, and healthcare. Much of our work is based on Septet's proprietary TX Miner engine, which employs advanced search technology for deep mining of documents on the public World Wide Web or within private repositories. The TX Miner engine is also the core technology behind Septet's patent-pending Personal Search Syndication, which enables anybody anywhere to build and post onto the World Wide Web customer search engines and Web directories (see www.k-sync.com).

Keep students connected to your curriculum from home and back. Posting assignments and lessons online can help students catch up or review if they are absent from school. And giving students "all the time" and "at anytime" access to the learning helps with time budgeting and life long learning skills.