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Students have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet the challenge remains for them to find, evaluate, and apply the information they discover in the classroom and beyond.Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills.Evaluate the information they find.Incorporate them in their work.Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstration

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

Here is how I sometimes feel about web 2.0 bombardment of which I am also guilty.

Organize & share the best of the web with your students. Anyone checked this out yet?

What are The Top Ten Social Learning and Educational Networking Competencies for K-12 Teachers?* Help students use educational networking tools to solve information problems and communicate digitally with experts, peers and instructors. Know the major Web 2.0 categories and tools that are useful in the K-12 setting. Know which tools are provided/supported by one's school. Use educational networking sites to communicate with teaching peers, students and parents. Navigate, evaluate and create professional content on networking sites. Use online networking to create, maintain and learn from a personal learning network - AND their students. Know the district networking guidelines, follow netiquette, conform to ethical standards and interact appropriately with others, especially students, online. Understand copyright, security and privacy issues on social media sites and share these understandings with students and professional colleagues. Understand the importance of identity and reputation management using social media and help students understand the long-term impact of personal information shared online. Create and follow a personal learning plan to stay informed about developing trends, tools and applications of social media. Participate in the formulation of school and district policies and guidelines related to educational networking and social learning.

Besides being an interesting resource for information (depending on article and author), this might be a way for students to get some work published on the web.

A recent example of the dangers of pulling Google images for web projects.

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

"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."

"If you're an educator, surely you know that technology has and will continue to have an incredible impact on learning. Whether it's the Internet, innovative learning tools, or teaching technology itself, these two subjects are intertwined. In these talks, you will find essential information for educators concerned with technology."

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.

A reminder that what you post on the internet can come back to haunt you.

Mentioned by Will Richardson as a way to use twitter type assignments in a closed environment. 

Another twitter tool to help you find and follow people of the same interest