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Possibly some ideas for different ways to engage students on day 1.

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.

Maybe this can help all of you out to explore tools that can be used in your revisions and your classrooms.

Bill Ferriter knew his sixth-grade language arts and social studies students spent time online outside of class, surfing the Web and instant messaging. So when he discovered he could engage his kids online in a collaborative, multimedia slide show called a VoiceThread, he decided to see if he could use it to, as he puts it, "steal some of their online minutes."

The site Brien was talking about as a potential space to post student video work. 

Looks like a great site. I use a lot of video with skits in my classroom, but have been reluctant to post them for sharing and comment. This might change that.

Great sites and ideas for connecting world language students.

A wiki that sorts tools by what you want to do or create.

Excellent resource! Provides explanations on how to do almost anything you could possibly want to do in your classroom. Go to it, bookmark it, use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for this Heather.

I'm still a Twitter skeptic, but I'm trying to be open minded and come to terms. This was one of the first resources I found to see what other teachers out there are doing with Twitter to make it a worthwhile experience for their students.

Mary Beth Hertz's site for #tsetc session

It's been about 10 years since Maine implemented its initiative, and while at least 33 states had experimented with one-to-one computing projects by 2007, none have reached the scope of Maine's project. As jobs and life increasingly involve computers, it's clear that in order to remain relevant to students, schools will need to adopt more technology. Here are six lessons about doing so successfully, taken from Maine's initiative.

Listen to podcast or check links on the Flipped Classroom Model. I showed up 10 minutes early and there were no seats left at ISTE conference. Interesting concept.