1:1 Pilot

One teacher goes with PBL.

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

Info about a free possibility for e-portfolios through Google Apps. This site includes examples, Step-by-step processes, etc. 

Very neat website that converts files for you FREE. Upload a file to the server and tell it the format you want it converted to. In a very short time, you get an email and a link for your converted file

I've used this, too, and it's excellent. Very useful for saving Youtube videos that you may want to use in the future or integrate into Powerpoints, etc. I have found, though, that wait times for the converted file vary from 10 minutes to about 12 hours, so don't rely on it for next block's presentation.

A 35-page manual showing how to use Prezi.

Thank you, I uploaded to my moodle site for the students.

Sample Prezi

Something fun to test our newly acquired social media savvy.

It should raise questions when an enormous, complicated realm of life takes on the characteristics of a stock drama. In the current school-reform story, there is a reliable villain, in the form of the teachers' unions, and a familiar set of heroes, including Geoffrey Canada, of Harlem Children's Zone; Wendy Kopp, of Teach for America, the Knowledge Is Power Program; and Michele Rhee, the superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C. And there is a clear answer to the problem-charter schools.

comics in education

Sounds like journalism and education have a lot in common?

Great overview of what Twitter is all about and how it works.

Another place to start in getting familiar with Web 2.0

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.

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

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. 

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."