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The aim of this site is to help you gain the skills to build your own personal learning network (PLN)!

This website synthesizes ICT and regular curriculum outcomes into engaging computer-based learning activities teachers can immediately use in the classroom.

do you want to learn some blogging secrets from me? Chris Brogan's intriguing question

Blog post about a challenge to read books from around the world to learn more about our world

Building Vocabulary Skills The more words kids know, the more background knowledge they can bring to reading and writing tasks. How can we help our students learn new words?

Games and Interactive websites that teach research and citation skills.

8 options that you need to type in. Spin to select. Could be used with learning new words. Spin and put the word in a sentence.

Great link for an activity on new literacies

The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning Magazine, articles from Educators in Educators' eZine, Event and Contest listings, Reader suggested Web sites, and weekly news updates on education technology leaders.

Participating in an online discussion on events and issues in the news not only gives students a forum, but it also helps them build critical thinking, writing and news literacy skills and provides an opportunity to write for an authentic audience.

Use Apture to mark words and then find out more about those words.

An Online Learning Lab with activities and texts to edit to practice using the six traits

With Digication, students can easily publish their work online. A Digication e-Portfolio can be created in less than 5 minutes. Instead of spending time building and managing complex websites, students (and their teachers!) can focus on learning and reflection.

This "videobook" describes different uses of YouTube in the classrom.

English Communication - Effective Workshop on Communication at BM English Speaking Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. BM English Speaking Institute in Mumbai conducts English Communication Skill Trainings with Grammar, Fluency, Confidence, Public Speaking, Body Language, Personality Development, Group Discussion, Presentation Skill, Business English, and Email Drafting.

created by Russell Stannard, a variety of English learning videos - some done in Jing, varying quality/value

Diversity of content is one of the great things about YouTube. But we know that some of you want a more controlled experience. That's why we're announcing Safety Mode, an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don't want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube. An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage. While no filter is 100% perfect, Safety Mode is another step in our ongoing desire to give you greater control over the content you see on the site. It's easy to opt in to Safety Mode: Just click on the link at the bottom of any video page. You can even lock your choice on that browser with your YouTube password. To learn more, check out the video below. And remember, ALL content must still comply with our Community Guidelines. Safety Mode isn't fool proof, but it provides a greater degree of control over your YouTube experience. Safety Mode is rolling out to all users through out the day, watch for the new link at the bottom of any YouTube page.

IRA Reading Radio interview with Peter Johnston about assessment standards related to digital literacy learning

Qwiki allows users to learn more about a variety of topics through multimedia and storytelling. Users can also contribute content to make Qwiki even better.

Interesting but it seems like they are just lifting content from Wikipedia. I'll have to check it again. Thanks, it is nice looking.