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."

How to build a PLN in 4 Days. Great advice for people who are apprehensive but who want to get out there and make some connections, share some ideas, and get a lot of information/feedback.

Top 10 sites for creating online surveys and polls

This is an example of a book review that I had my students annotate together. Here are the instructions I gave them: This is an example of a book review. Use your Diigo toolbar to highlight and comment on the review. Focus on stylistic and organizational choices that the writer makes, the voice that she develops, and the content that she covers. We will use this as a model for book reviews that we will write about our independent reads.

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

Five great ways to build your PLN using web 2.0 technologies and personal connections within a teaching community.

This is a list of educators who are using Google Wave. It gives information about where they are located and how to contact them. If you're using this tool, it might be a good start for building a PLN.

Steve Wheeler's blog. He gives a list of ideas for effective Twitter use in the classroom. Includes links to other Twitter resources for classroom use.

Holly Turner's Aquatic Biology Facebook Group

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.