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"Like a band of summer vacation-crazed high school students, South Korea is tossing their textbooks into the great bonfire of "No More Pencils, No More Books…!" No, they're not entering an indefinite period of state-organized hooky, they are doing away with those burdensome textbooks and digitizing their entire curriculum. In an effort to enable education through technology while bringing down costs, all materials are expected to be digitized by 2015. When the effort is complete, students will be able to learn when and where they want."

"I work in an Independent School in Melbourne, Australia, and this year we have made a commitment to help our students (grades 7-12) create ePortfolios, using an Edublogs campus as the platform. Here are 5 reasons why we are making student blogging and portfolio development a high priority."

"Start small, make training personally relevant, pair staff with knowledgeable co-workers-and keep it fun, readers recommend"

The Future of E-Learning is Crowdsourcing

Grockit is very easy to use and has a user friendly interface. It lets its users search for a YouTube video and once found, they can then both watch the video and use the right side panel to write their questions or comments. They can then share this page using a generated URL with their students or colleagues.

" Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites "

share and model the use of currrent internet tools participate in proffesional networks assist students in building learning networks provide sufficient learning opportunities for students to become digitally literate  inspire every child to be quality global citizens

"7 Top Trends in Social Media"

" You are invited to join Massively Minecraft, a professional community of educators preparing to explore a new game suitable for children as young as 4 years of age, yet expansible enough to still stir the imagination and interaction of late teens and adults."

"Why the Facebook Group My Students Created for Themselves is Better than the Discussion Forum I Created for Them."

Delicious was bookmarked to disappear in a few months, but has now been picked up by the founders of youtube.

"Using iPods To Increase Reading Comprehension"

"iPads Invade the Computer Lab A private school on the Big Island of Hawaii not only adopted Apple's iPad for student learning; the school designed a whole facility around it. "

"Education Transformation Through Collaborative Videos "

"Adobe caves in to Apple -- fewer blank spots on i-devices? "

"Could Google Earth Murals Be The New Billboards? "

"How Technology Wires the Learning Brain"- is google making us smarter? The notion of text breaks is intriguing...are we simply feeding in to an addiction or are we making time for connecting and conversing ?

"Teaching to the Text Message" Ways in which a college professor teaches kids to write concisely.

article explaining creative commons licensing.