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Here are five ideas that will help you begin building your own personal learning network. 1. Read blogs related to your passion. Search out topics of interest at http://blogsearch.google.com and see who shares those interests. 2. Participate. If you find bloggers out there who are writing interesting and relevant posts, share your reflections and experiences by commenting on their posts. 3. Use your real name. It's a requisite step to be Googled well. Be prudent, of course, about divulging any personal information that puts you at risk, and guide students in how they can do the same. 4. Start a Facebook page. Educators need to understand the potential of social networking for themselves. 5. Explore Twitter (http://twitter.com), a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to exchange short updates of 140 characters or fewer. It may not look like much at first glance, but with Twitter, the network can be at your fingertips.

The website provides information and articles about open source software, advice on getting started, case studies of its adoption in schools, a directory for exploring what is available, and a glossary.

Site to find the best iPhone apps

Apptism is the only iPhone app activity aggregator. We track the activity of every app in the App Store. With anywhere from 50 to 100 iPhone apps being added and updated on the App Store daily, it is nearly impossible to keep up. Using apptism, you'll be able to monitor all app activity and find the app you're looking for quickly. App content is also aggregated from many sources to keep you informed on the latest and greatest. Our searching, sorting, and filtering options are nearly endless. via Teachakidd

Sussex County Internet Safety Information Resource Page.

Lesson Grade Level Chart Which lessons are appropriate for your students? All schools are probably teaching many of the information literacy skills found in this body of lessons. Usually, individual teachers will tackle the process of plugging the gaps in their curriculum when an issue or opportunity arises. A sixth grade teacher may see the need to review note taking, while a high school teacher needs to re-introduce Boolean operators and review Citing Sources. Eventually, schools and districts will attempt to make sure the skills covered in these lessons are integrated into the K-12 curriculum. As a teacher, you can begin by looking at the chart below to see which lessons are appropriate for the age and abilities of the students you teach.

Unless otherwise noted all games are created by GamesfortheBrain.com (Philipp Lenssen). All pages licensed under Creative Commons. Contact philipp.lenssen@gmail.com for more information. If you have feedback on games, or ideas for new ones, please let me know! (Here's my blog, by the way.)

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Pat Teske asks - Does the Digital Toolbox have any ownership of content issues? I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Pat = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Pat Teske, Instructional Technology Services

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts 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.

Our mission is to transform boys into lifelong readers. We are an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, authors, and booksellers. Periodically, we will feature an Extraordinary Author on our home page. Below is information about an incredible writer who has published several compelling and gripping novels that boys love.

The TechMatrix is a powerful tool for finding educational and assistive technology products for students with special needs. Learn what questions to ask and how to make informed ed tech decisions with our updated Guides. Via Kevin Jarrett

All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects. * English games to review parts of speech * Reading games to help learn sight words * Science tutorials and games are coming soon! via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/04/fun-4-brain-great-educational-games.html

Plagium is a service, now in beta test, of Septet Systems Inc. Septet Systems Inc. focuses on the development of innovative information search solutions for consumers, enterprises, government, academics, and healthcare. Much of our work is based on Septet's proprietary TX Miner engine, which employs advanced search technology for deep mining of documents on the public World Wide Web or within private repositories. The TX Miner engine is also the core technology behind Septet's patent-pending Personal Search Syndication, which enables anybody anywhere to build and post onto the World Wide Web customer search engines and Web directories (see www.k-sync.com).

These practice items provide examples of the new content and increased rigor represented by the revised Standards of Learning (SOL) and illustrate the new Technology-Enhanced Item types for the mathematics, reading, science, and writing SOL tests.  Technology-Enhanced Items (TEI) require students to indicate their responses in ways other than a multiple-choice format.

"Fresh from the oven and piping hot, SpicyNodes is limited only by your imagination. Entice visitors to explore and savor the experience of visiting your web site, add visualizations to your blog, create a mindmap or organizational chart, or encourage students to delve deeper."

notify.me delivers notifications that interest you in near real time. It eliminates the need for you to constantly check on classified listings, blogs or social networking sites. Notifications are pushed to your destinations of choice such as instant messenger, mobile phone, email, desktop or web application.

US Department of Agriculture Image Library

Oldie but a decent one from the government for images and pictures. Remember that with most government sites you are free to use the pictures but some such as NASA do require that you cite the source.

This looks great! Thanks Fred.