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"Let's face it: most school websites are pretty boring. True, some have improved a lot in the last few years, but they're mainly the exception that proves the rule. Looking at most school websites is like taking a trip back in time. No interactivity, no sense of community, no updates for weeks, if not months. In short, no life."

While volunteering in under-resourced public schools, Heather Halstead and Marc Gustafson became concerned about teachers' preparedness to meet the demands of the 21st Century and students' isolation from the global community. In 1998, they founded Reach the World, an education nonprofit headquartered in New York City. RTW's mission is to help elementary and secondary school students and teachers to develop the knowledge, attitudes, values and thinking skills needed for responsible citizenship in a complex, culturally diverse and rapidly changing world.

"Summary The family's role is increasingly acknowledged as critical for children's learning both in and out of school, giving rise to requirements for secondary schools to report to parents online by 2010, and the Children's Plan identifying 'parental engagement' as a high priority for 2009. However, little is known about the learner's role in mediating relationships between parents and teachers, and between home and school. Young people may actively facilitate or resist their parents' involvement with their education, and without recognising their active role, strategies that aim to enhance communication between home and school may become a missed opportunity that makes little difference to children's learning."

"After 14 months of manually managing the rapidly growing participants/educators to the Around the World with 80 Schools project (and adding their locations to a Google Map), I have decided to migrate and build a community for participants on the Around the World with 80 Schools Ning."

"Whether you are looking for tools that can bring a distance education class together or tools to help students and teachers in traditional classrooms working on group projects, the following collaboration tools will help with any need. From group papers to file sharing to group communication, the following tools will help bring any educational group together seamlessly to produce awesome results."

"Learning Management + Social Networking Schoology is a free, or upgraded to pay, web-based learning management system (LMS) built on a social network. Schoology leverages the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication and collaboration."

"LearnCentral allows educators to use a free public Elluminate room to hold large webinars or group meetings. To qualify, the events must be 1) education-oriented and non-commercial, 2) free (you're not charging those who attend), 3) recordable, and 4) open to anyone to attend. We're really excited to see what you do with this capability, and are hoping that it allows you to regularly gather other educators around curricular interests in "historic" ways."

This site is a specialize area within in Flickr dedicated to those who desire to have, or add to, a pool of photos/messages that address the mindset and tenants of Curriculum 21, written by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and C21 faculty.

"The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management. One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years."

"Online social networking includes much more than Facebook and Twitter. It is any online use of technology to connect people, enable them to collaborate with each other, and form virtual communities."

"If someone follows you in Twitter, the polite thing to do is reciprocate, right? Well, maybe so, but I think it needs a little more thought than that. Here is a list of the steps I take when someone follows me. Incidentally, the same techniques, with a bit of adjustment, work for any social network situation where people can become your "friend""

"Diigo is a social bookmark service. A social bookmark service is like the Favorites in Internet Explorer, or Bookmarks in other web browsers, like Firefox. However, instead of saving a URL to your computer, you save it on the internet. This has a number of advantages: ..."

"With Version 5.0, Diigo moves one step further towards its vision of providing the best cloud-based information management service that enables users to collect, highlight, access and share a variety of information, on a variety of devices."

"David Warlick wrote a post the other day about being able to zip up or turn off your Personal Learning Network (PLN). I too have been thinking about how one goes about starting a PLN, how do you monitor it, and how do you learn to shut it off. We all continue to push teachers to start PLNs if they haven't already. Learning from the collective knowledge of educators around the world."

"The latest facts and figures on the effect of Social Media on our society. Set to the blaring soundtrack stating RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW."

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"Shelfari is the premier social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free!"

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"Talk. Listen. TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in real-time. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs."

"Simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation. Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more. Create each drop in two clicks and share what you want, how you want, with whom you want. "