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Enjoyable blog on Avoiding Teacher Burnout:  5 Management Tips...love the Albert Camus quotes especially!

Keep track of the noise level in your classroom using the calmCounter "Calmness Counter." This colorful tool is simple to set up and use. Uses the built-in microphone on your laptop or connect an external mic and watch the calm counter respond to the noise level in your classroom. This is a concrete way to quantify noise level needed for goal setting and behavior (sound) management. Even the young can understand this tool's "thermometer."

We've created the Digital ID wiki with a two-fold purpose: Provide students, teachers, and administrators with a toolkit of reliable information, resources, and guidelines to help all of us learn how to be upstanding Digital Citizens who maintain a healthy Digital Identity (ID) in the 21st Century. Build a collaborative platform for teachers and students the world over to contribute to our ever-growing curriculum collaborations and student-created content. Our goal is to help our students answer these three Essential Questions: What does it mean to be a (digital) citizen? What are my rights as a citizen? What are my responsibilities as a citizen? Students Objectives and Learning Outcomes: Stepping Up ~ Cyberbullying: By examining bullying within their own lives and across historical events and time periods, students will consider the importance of empathy as a 21st century skill, equally as important as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and skilled communication. Building Identities ~ Digital Footprint: By examining the importance of maintaining a positive digital identity, students will learn how to employ self-regulation to manage their own digital footprint. Respecting Boundaries ~ Intellectual Property: By employing critical thinking, students will learn the ethical use of intellectual property. Protecting Online Security and Privacy: By studying common threats to electronic security and equipment, students will learn to protect themselves and sensitive information."

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

This is a cool concept.

"Organize your ideas, thoughts and documents. Share and find with ease. Save anything and everything that's important to you. Be it the contents of a webpage, an email, scanned copy of a business card or an important pdf file, anything. Take rich notes to save your crazy wild idea or a snippet of your latest code. Add annotations - via sticky comments, highlights, drawings etc, to these klips. Get a unique Webklipper URL for each of your klip. Share it with a small group of friends or with all your followers on Twitter - you'll be in complete charge of privacy settings for all your klips. Find your klips easily whenever you need them - search by klip content, annotations, url etc. "