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StageofLife.com thinks the answer to this phenomenon lies not in pushing against new social media, but rather embracing it: by encouraging high school students to blog. StageofLife.com is a website for the generation growing up with social media embedded into their daily lives to meet, share stories, and learn about those in their generation and other stages of life. It is an educational resource as well, offering lesson plans and contest ideas to educators. One of the most recent creative writing lesson plans is quite innovative: its goal is to break students out of the restrictive environment of 140-character word limits while at the same time promote the use of social media in the classroom. StageofLife.com believes that blogging and other social media is an integral part of the lives of current high school students, and should be incorporated into English classes around the country.

"I did want to release the Free PDF of the Web-Based Portfolio series I've been working on for the past couple of months. I've taken the four blog posts and put them into this PDF that you can download and use if you would like."

A class netvibes site for Honors English II that collected individual blogs and a class blog

Blogging and safety from a parental point of view.

This is one of the best articles I've read on why people blog. Great ideas and great writing.

Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level.

Teaching history through blogging from Teaching History through Technology.

PBL Resources

Blog about #tsetc experience

With Showbeyond, you can easily grab your images, add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Then, you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites

"SupportBlogging! has been set up to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging."

This is a best practices example of Wikispaces for an English course or a reading club. This looks like the 21st Century skills and project based learning we have been toying around with

For those using Wikispaces.com this came as an email update to me, and I thought it would be very useful to our cohort.

An interesting blog about changing the way we teach.

Mark Moran's "Teaching Ten Steps to Better Web Research" info from his TSETC session. 

Comments4Kids is a way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on and to get their own posts commented on.

Welcome to the… Student Blogging Challenge starts this month. Providing you with an opportunity for your students to interact with classrooms all over the globe.

This site has free printable praphic organizers, forms, awards and certificates and a blog.

A post about Google Moderator as an alternative to tools like Poll Everywhere. The post includes ideas for potential use in the classroom.