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A San Francisco wiki services provider has just finished a multiyear project under which it gave teachers all over the world 100,000 free wikis. And now, it is doubling up and getting set to give away another quarter million. The company, Wikispaces, decided in 2006 that it would make helping teachers use the collaborative software to further cooperation between students, both in their own schools and with schools in other cities and countries, a cornerstone of its business. But while Wikispaces hasn't made any money directly from the project--and in fact has incurred significant costs due to supporting the teachers' use of the wikis--co-founder Adam Frey said the company has found that the educators are just the kind of evangelists that can aid a start-up in building a business.

From TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership.
These are short presentations to help busy administrators and teachers gain a better understanding of the variety of tools on the World Wide Web.

Kristin Hokanson's wiki showing how classrooms can connect.

Kristin Hokanson's excellent wiki with many Web 2.0 resources. Excellent site!

Excellent wiki full of resources from Kristin Hokanson. Wow!

This is a gem from UK for "users, teachers, leaders and managers" of educational ICT. As members of ad4dcss are, like it or not, leaders (with all that entails) I think we will find much helpful here. Also this is home of the e-book, "Coming of Age" and soon to be released "Coming of Age 2.0" that are just slightly relevant.

Known as griefers, snerts, cheese players, twinks, or just plain cyberbullies, chances are one of these ne'er-do-wells has bothered a kid near you at least once while playing online multiplayer video games such as Halo 2, EverQuest, The Sims Online, SOCOM, and Star Wars Galaxies.

This article offers seven things all adults need to know about social networking sites like MySpace.
1. Social networking is enormously popular with young adults.
2. Friends are probably just that.
3. Blocking sites at school won't keep kids away from MySpace.
4.Some degree of danger does exist for MySpace users.
5. The MySpace organization is working toward a safer online
6. Teachers might want to check to see if they have had a MySpace account created for them.
7.MySpace and social networking have value.

CTAP Region IV has designed this collection of Administrator Resources specifically with the needs of school administrators in mind. Administrator Resources cover 6 vital areas:
1. Legal Issues
2. Student Misbehavior in Cyberspace: MySpace, YouTube, Facebook
3. Cybersafety and School Board Policy Statements
4. Cyberbullying Documentation: Incident Reports/Review Process
5. Articles Related to Internet MisUse in the Schools
6. Materials for PTA Presentations

A rational, ethical and legally-defensible way" of how educators should change their approach to both using and teaching about intellectual property, [Doug Johnson]

bNetS@vvy is a bimonthly publication of the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and Sprint. The bilingual newsletter provides resources from a range of perspectives to help adults understand the problem and connect with young teens to reduce the risks that they will become bullies or victims online. Lawyers, School Psychologists, Classroom Teachers and Teens contribute to the bi-monthly publication. Recent issues have covered Cyberbullying topics and Web 2.0

This issue of bNets@vvy focuses on texting and includes articles on: Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Texting, A Pediatrician's Advice for Managing Your Child's Texting Activity, Parents Share Their Strategies for Managing Kids' Texting Behavior, A Teen Talks About Texting and What Parents/Educators Need to Know About It, What's Up with Texting? A Teacher Asks Her Students to Clue Her In

Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet. Students will:
1.Explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings.
2. Analyze the underlying connotations of names.
3. Analyze the ways that name-giving practices vary from one culture to another.
4. Synthesize their investigation by choosing and explaining specific names to represent themselves online.

The California K-12 High Speed Network (K12HSN) is offering a comprehensive set of tools to support teaching and learning in California classrooms. This free suite of tools, known as edZone, was developed by the California Dept of Education and currently includes blogging, videoconference scheduling and a file sharing system where educators can upload videos, podcasts, images and documents. EdZone is an excellent tool to share lesson ideas, upload student learning objects, disseminate best practices, and more! EdZone will soon be expanded to include Instant Messaging, Moodle, Wikis, Social Networking, Moodle-an online course management system and other Web 2.0 tools to enhance today's classroom environment. Watch for these new tools in Summer 2008!

Excellent organization and competition that is managed very well.

This fascinating project needs judges (oh and horizon still does too!) -- hat tip to David Warlick for this link.\n\nThe student web site entries are due in tomorrow (April 2) for the 2008 competition, and ThinkQuest needs people to judge these entries. To be a judge, you must be employed as a teacher or have a minimum of five years experience in the field of education; be proficient in the English language; and be able to, and have the time to evaluate and score websites based on the provided criteria.

Designed for teachers and produced by the staff at Nettrekker, this 14-page document is a free download.

Hector's World® is a free interactive learning resource from New Zealand for children 2-9 years of age. Hector and his friends live in the magical world of Silicon Deep where their whole community is learning about the digital world. Children can be entertained and have fun as they learn about serious and complex topics like online privacy and safety. The site includes resources for parents and teachers.

Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast on Feb. 2, 2010.

Canadian resources covering digital citizenship, Web 2.0, copyright, plagiarism, Internet Safety and Cyberbullying.

Task force recommendations for best practices for child online safety. Divided into three categories of children's online experiences: 1. Before children go online 2. During online activities of children 3. When problems arise

Great 2-minute video produced by the YouTube safety team with tips for teens about privacy, cyberbullying and cybersafety.

2.5 minute video from the YouTube Safety Team with tips for enjoying YouTube safely. Reviews community guidelines and what is/is not allowed. Includes discussion of copyright, dealing with insulting comments, hiding objectionable words, privacy,