1:1 Pilot

It bills itself as an alternative to Ning.

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

Another polling tool that Trese presented.

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.

One of the polling tools Trese presented.

Buffy Hamilton's wiki space for her Media 21 Project. She shares her planning, collaboration, and student sample resources. 

Upon popular request, we have just implemented a cool feature for Twitter fans: "Save Favorite Tweets". With a 2-step simple setup, you can begin to automatically save your favorite tweets to your Diigo library on a daily basis. Best of all, cached pages for links in the tweets will also be automatically fetched and saved on Diigo, so you can always access the archived pages. Here is how to get started:

Holly Turner's Aquatic Biology Facebook Group

If you ever do a project that uses research and data gathering this is great. Watch the tutorial to see all the capabilities.

If you're trying to explain what social media is, how it influences the world, or simply want to see a spectacular prezi presentation, look no further. From RSS to micro-blogging to crowdsourcing, you'll find a lot of new and interesting information in this presentation. Enjoy!

Interesting thoughts on collaboration, copyright, and web-based writing. Also, the links to "popular stories" all look interesting!

Will we ever eliminate textbooks completely?

The importance of digital citizenship - ideas for engaging and exploring the question.

Ok the article is a little old but it has a great point of view of trying to teach students about a google search and how to search effectively.

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.

On the one hand/on the other hand - Promotion of the language, great; promotion of body art - de gustibus non disputandum est. Sed hoc modo possumus promovere saltem usum linguae ut commentarium faciamus de rebus currentibus in actis diurnis. Et, sine dubio, homines praeclari habent maximum momenti.

Weird candy that you eat out of the head of strange plastic goiter.

Step by step instructions on how to create a digital story using Movie Maker.

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

The Reform Symposium is a free online conference for educators, administrators, parents and students. This year the conference is focused on innovative practices in education and what role these practices can play in educational reform.

Here is a list of the webinars. They will be archived so you can watch them at anytime!