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Take the simplicity of Twitter, add some features such as sending attachments, redesign the software to appeal to teachers and students, what you end up with is Edmondo.com, a young site that is rapidly gaining converts in the education community. It is a great example of using digital tools to organize a student's day-to-day workflow. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Privacy is the biggest drawback to using traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom setting.  (Has Twitter been around long enough to be called traditional?) Edmondo promotes itself as "a private communication platform for teachers and students." I'm not a teacher, so I'll defer to the views of someone who is. Mark Warner is a primary teacher in the U.K. who runs the successful www.TeachingIdeas.co.uk and blogs on MrWarner.com.  He and his students (ages nine and ten) just recently started using the site, and they think it's great.

Tweet Blocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers. Using highly advanced filtering, we catalog and rank the top spammers on Twitter, allowing users to quickly and easily find spammers.

Yes they did it again! Awesome -- Twitter in plain english!

(Michael Gorman) Welcome to a post that covers those other ten Word Cloud Generators and some are pretty amazing!  While Wordle is the king of Word Cloud Generators here are some other word cloud tools that have some outstanding capabilities that are worth investigation.  Each tool provides a unique way  that can be used in  the classroom to facilitate the creation and study of word clouds. I especially was impressed with a few tools that actually helped students analyze a group of text using more than just the generated cloud, another that allows the user to be creative with the cloud shape, and still another that connects words in the cloud to web pages! Thanks for the visit, and as always please feel free to follow me on Twitter (mjgormans), I will follow back and we can learn from each other. Also, be sure to visit my 21centuryedtech Blog and check out all of the free resources at my 21centuryedtech Wiki! - Have a great week and enjoy the read! - Mike

"Five years ago, we launched a conference based on a simple idea, and that idea grew into a movement. The original Web 2.0 Conference (now the Web 2.0 Summit ) was designed to restore confidence in an industry that had lost its way after the dotcom bust. The Web was far from done, we argued. In fact, it was on its way to becoming a robust platform for a culture-changing generation of computer applications and services. In our first program, we asked why some companies survived the dotcom bust, while others had failed so miserably. We also studied a burgeoning group of startups and asked why they were growing so quickly. The answers helped us understand the rules of business on this new platform. Chief among our insights was that "the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions. From Google and Amazon to Wikipedia, eBay, and craigslist, we saw that the value was facilitated by the software, but was co-created by and for the community of connected users. Since then, powerful new platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have demonstrated that same insight in new ways. Web 2.0 is all about harnessing collective intelligence." Web2.0 aus der Sicht O'Reilly and John Battelle heute. Spannend, wie sie die Entwicklungen bewerten.

Thanx to @mandyschiefner via twitter From the Introduction of Daniel Rey: "Herzlich willkommen Herzlich willkommen zu dieser Webseite, die Lernende und Dozierende, Praktiker und Forscher anspricht, welche sich für die psychologischen Grundlagen des Lehrens und Lernens mittels elektronischer Medien interessieren."

Eine nette Präsentation (in english) , welche die Veränderungen der Massenkommunikation durch die neuen netzbaierten Werkzeuge auf den Punkt bringt.

A presentation about influence and potential of the net! thanx to cristina pointing me to it!

Eine kurze Einführung von @Praetorius über das fluxse Drehen von Webvideos. Wenn ich den Inhalt zusammenfassen mag, dann: Kurze Planung vorweg erspart viel Arbeit der Nachbereitung! "Danke liebe Twitter-Freunde für die vielen leckeren Kochrezeptvorschläge für mein anstehenes Video-Seminar. Ich werde kommende Woche wieder einen Kurs zum Thema Produktion und Publishing von Web-Videos geben. Ich halte solche Seminare immer gerne ganz allgemein. Daher werde ich meine Tipps zur Moderation und dem Umgang mit der Kamera am beispiel eines kleines Kochkurses geben. Heute geht's ins Studio bzw. in die Küche. Es gibt Spiegelei mit Spinat in HD. Der Blogeintrag und das Konzept stehen schon mal hier, Videos folgen, sobald ich Sie nachbearbeitet habe:"

Thanx to Cristina to point this out.