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"How to set up blogging in the classroom will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the "how-to" videos and help center collections. What teachers most often ask me is why they would set up a blog for their class. What value is there in a class blog? Here are some great ideas and applications for class and/or individual student blogs that you can explore in your classroom."

"YouTube is loaded with tools and settings that teachers and students often overlook. The YouTube audio slideshow tool is one of those overlooked tools built into YouTube. I often demonstrate it in my workshops on video creation. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to use YouTube's audio slideshow creation tool."

"In 2008 I was introduced to this blogging idea. I was in a workshop that my school offered. I was inspired by all of the possibilities that blogging could offer. I remember my mind being flooded with all of the possibilities that I started to think about in regards to communication, relationship building and perspective."

"It's no wonder educators are harnessing the power of Twitter to bring cutting edge ideas, trends, research, and best practices to use in their schools and classrooms. But just as Twitter can be a treasure trove of information, it can be overwhelming for new users to figure out how to use it effectively. We've compiled this list of the best ways to make Twitter a social media tool that works for you."

"One of the things I have been writing about and have tried to make clear over the past few months is that work as we know it is dead and that the only way forward is to challenge convention around how we work, how we lead, and how we build our companies. Employees which were once thought of expendable cogs are the most valuable asset that any organization has. However, the employee from a decade ago isn't the same as the employee who we are starting to see today. To help show that I wanted to share an image from my upcoming book which depicts how employees are evolving. It's an easy way to see the past vs the future."

"Google is an even cleverer beast than you thought until now, and this new Google Search Tricks infographic provides a handy guide for 13 of the most useful shortcuts you can use to make your search experience a whole lot more efficient, faster and easier…and more fun to boot."

"To couple my continued passion for learning and sharing using Twitter as an education professional and this new rather lovely App by Adobe, I thought I'd create a new resource to support teachers looking to learn more about joining Twitter."

"When you hear about some grand new initiative to give every student an iPad or smartphone, be very skeptical. No single piece of technology has yet to change the basic nature of teaching and learning. Radio, television, CDs, Smartboards, and personal computers were all hailed as transformative educational innovations in their day. They were not. iPads won't be either. There is a big difference between finding new ways to deliver information and true educational innovation, which is a far more complicated endeavor."

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano has written this reflection on a recent presentation from Beth Holland focussing on the effective use of technology and iPads. She has embedded the slides Beth used, (which should be viewed),. She has also reflected on the message and explored the use of sketchnote to record the presentation

"A survey by George Lucas-funded teaching website Edutopia found that Pinterest was one of teachers' five favorite professional development websites. That year, Pinterest launched a new hub, "Teachers on Pinterest" to grow their education community even more, starting with a lineup of "star teachers" curating ideas about elementary school math education, classroom management in middle schools, and homeschooling."

"There may be unintended consequences to bringing technology into the classroom."

"Actually teaching a class of students with iPads, is a very different scenario than any other tech integration. As comfortable as I am with technology, it is new territory teaching kids when they have the world at their fingertips and the majority of them are way more tech savvy than you or I will ever will be."

"These are apps that students can use to create beautiful cartoons to use in their multimedia projects or in activities that involve comic strips, digital storytelling, presentations and many more. All of these apps are easy to use and do not require any advanced technical skill. Some of the things students can do with these apps include: take pictures and turn them into cartoons, capture cartoon videos,  draw cartoon sketches, customize and add different effects to pictures, convert photos into cartoon avatars, and many more."

"Published on 18 Mar 2015 YouTube for Schools is a great way to allow only educational YouTube videos to be available at your school while blocking out inappropriate content."

"Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep."

"Whether you realize it or not, dozens - if not hundreds - of apps and services have access to your social accounts and can see everything you're doing online. Tweets, Likes, your location, are all there for the taking. What's worse, there's a pretty good chance you unwittingly gave them permission."

"There are a lot of Copyright myths and misunderstandings - particularly when it comes to Internet Copyright Infringement. The Myths and Facts about Copyright Infringement Infographic explains how to avoid breaching Copyright and how to protect teachers and students from Copyright Infringement online."

Wait a few seconds for Patatap to download then start to hit the keys on your keyboard to "create" a soundscape. Team it up with a screencasting option such as Screencast-o-matic and you can record your composition as a movie.

"You can pull your About.me profile information, and a small screenshot of it, in your sidebar using embed code from About.me in a text widget ."

"Published on 30 Mar 2015 More than 9 in 10 Australian adults are online - Get the facts from the ACMA's 'Australians' Digital Lives' report"