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A New Adventure Wiki: Curriculum Mapping, Info Literacy, Social Media, Custom Search by Google, Social Bookmarking, Glogster, PRezi, Voki, NYC iSchool, 

Sophia is a free social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content to anyone, anywhere, free of charge. The website, which has been described as a mashup of Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube that is focused solely on education

Edmodo is a social network set up for school use. This is a resource page that will help you understand how to use this social network.

Long lists aligned with each reason explaining why social media is important to all organizations. We live in a competitive world.

This is a bit different compared to the rest of my education-related links, but this can be a great resource for a teacher or student who has a product that they wish to promote on the internet.

White Paper on Using Social Media in Classrooms

Social Network for Book Lovers

Civics and Social Studies Learning Games

Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, provides free data and analysis on the social impact of the internet.

The ISTE 2010 Conference Ning is the social networking hub for The International Society for Technology in Education's 2010 conference.

Objectives:Students will be able to compile information on given subjectStudents will be able to organize information on a given subject using tagsStudents will be able to present information Process: If you are presenting this lesson in a Web 2.0 class you will have many directions in which you can take this lesson. If you are integrating these tools and this lesson into a content area classroom, you will want to focus your lesson around what you want your students to find. 1. Have students respond to this prompt: Social Networks are closing us off from the rest of the world and creating a society of selfish, ego driven individuals. They are wasting time in workplace and are a constant disruption to a student's learning.  2. Explain that students would normally respond to this type of response in a written essay, however, that will not be the case today. Have students seek out information to either defend or challenge this prompt. Instruct students that they have the entire class period today to work in groups or individually and find clippings that support or challenge this prompt.

Long lists of educators' twitter names in many subject and topic areas are available for you to peruse and begin following in Twitter. Also make sure you add your name to the appropriate group(s).

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Sample Online Course Expectations

Digital Literacy & Digital Identity Resources

Digital footprint activity and game.