A terrific Ning for those of us who wish to continue pursuing these 2.0 tools. Every Wednesday and Saturday they broadcast / podcast live interviews on topics of interest.
Some of the ideas in this site remind me of a project I did a couple of years back with some gifted 7th graders in composition. Basically, they made a portfolio of their own "loop" compositions from the time they spent creating it on Acid 5 (a music loop-editing program) Sonar, and Audacity and from the chatting they did online using Blackboard (web 2.0) as a tool. If I had to do it today, I could probably work it out in large measure using wikispaces.
This site comes through Thinkfinity and this puts a music site out there for the group to check out. Thinkfinity looks like its rich resources will come in handy. When doing a music search on Thinkfinity, I typed in the key words music education and left all other drop down menus read ALL because it yielded better results for the music teacher as such. In a web 2.0 situation where I am working with a group, I can give multiple assignment choices to provoke diversity and interest.
While the main purpose of the site are some technology sites that will help with writing, take a look at the Sidebar Sites. They are really worth looking at. By the way, if you're not subscribed to edudemic, think about doing so.
A Site worth looking at for Elementary, Special Education, and ELL students. Some of the tools might be a bit pricey. Look at the Blog and seriously think about an RSS feed. The links to resources are awesome.
By the time you check this out, Google will have "Buzz" online. This is Twitter's competition. Google's search engine, "Chrome", has taken some business from from Internet Explorer and Firefox. I think a similar thing will happen with "Buzz" because it is right at hand. I am checking it out today even though twittering as a mode of online communication does not appeal to me.