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Great plagiarism summary by Turnitin

Good ideas about what to teach children in regards to email spam

My recent interview on @NPR: Don't trip over your digital footprint http://t.co/XiJIABqP #edchat #cpchat #socialmedia

There is more to Word Clouds then Wordle!
welcome to a series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of word clouds, or brand new. I enjoy working with teachers and helping them use word clouds in their lessons because they are a great way to get any teacher started with integrating technology.  In the last post you discovered  12 Tips in Using Wordle. In fact you may wish to read it if you have not as of yet. This post will share 108 ways for educators to use word clouds in the classroom. 

"Plotz will create a hollow sphere (and now wizard towers and observatory models) of your chosen size and you can then step through the layers to see how to build it. Plotz will also print a full schematic including a 'ghost' of the layer below to help you position blocks."

Jane Hart of the United Kingdom's Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has been assembling a list of the best resources for the past five years. But these resources aren't just randomly organized by popularity or something, the order is decided by a crowdsourced vote. What could be better than that?

Article about Facebook from the Sydney Morning Herald

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Really interesting article by Katie Roiphe about why danah boyd thinks you should not monitor your kids' web surfing.

allows you to automatically upload PDF created to your Google Docs

New "Tool" option when in a Google doc -- a sidebar for searching pops up (also can highlight a word/phrase and right-click to search).

Andrew McCarthy's research skills site for the High School

I have written several posts before on the importance of making presentation meaningful and interesting. Not just creating a PowerPoint because it's the easiest tool for you to create a visual representation of your content. Comic books are what I consider to be attention grabbers. After bringing out several samples, you now have the student's attention. It's what you do with that attention that really matters. For this post I thought I would share some great web 2.0 tools that allow you and your students to make comic books. I urge you to make these assignments interesting, and relevant. Make sure that they are strongly tied to important curriculum standards and benchmarks. Just because the form of presentation and activity creation is "fun" does not mean that the substance in the curriculum is not important.