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Holly Turner's Aquatic Biology Facebook Group

"Hello and welcome to the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki. This wiki was started by Colette Cassinelli (http://twitter.com/ccassinelli) but because of contributors like YOU - it has grown to be comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups. The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples."

This was originally bookmarked by Reanea Wilson in the Diigo in Education group, so any highlighting and notes that show up are hers. I'm re-bookmarking it here since it seems relevant to our discussions on collaboration and also because librarians are awesome...and, yes, Heather does pay me to say things like that.

A link to this blog post popped up in my Twitter feed today, and I thought the group might find it useful. It gives advice to new twitterers. 

A new way to use Facebook?

It bills itself as an alternative to Ning.

I recently followed a group of eight public high school students, aged 15 to 17, in western Massachusetts as they designed and ran their own school within a school. They represented the usual range: two were close to dropping out before they started the project, while others were honors students. They named their school the Independent Project. The students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience, when they learn things that matter to them and when they learn together. In such a setting, school capitalizes on rather than thwarts the intensity and engagement that teenagers usually reserve for sports, protest or friendship.

Another place to start in getting familiar with Web 2.0