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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 question has to be raised that are there things in this list that APS is not doing properly? "She lists eight ways to keep your networks safe: * Don't assume a link is "safe" because it's from a friend. * Don't assume Twitter links are safe because Twitter is now scanning for malware. * Don't Assume Bit.ly Links are safe. * Use an up-to-date web browser. * Keep Windows up-to-date. * Keep Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash up-to-date. * Don't assume you're safe because you use a Mac. * Be wary of email messages from social networks (because email addresses can be "spoofed" by hackers). "

* Employees need to be educated and held accountable. * IT departments need to keep systems updated.

ScreenStream lets others 'watch' your screen on their computers over the network or the internet. It is the modern equivalent of the overhead projector. When you turn on screen sharing others on your network (or even the internet) can view what is on your screen by typing the link (and optional access code) into their internet browser. They can continue to watch your screen until you turn off screen sharing.

Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. The entertainment networks have capitalized on this formula with shows like The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Trading Spaces, and Project Runway in which participants creatively draw on their knowledge and resources to create appropriate solutions to challenges. To address the need to create new ways of engaging students to achieve, Apple worked with educators across the country to develop the concept of Challenge Based Learning.

Prey helps you find your stolen laptop by sending timed reports to your email with a bunch of information of its whereabouts. This includes the general status of the computer, a list of running programs and active connections, fully-detailed network and wifi information, a screenshot of the running desktop and - in case your laptop has an integrated webcam - a picture of the thief.

social networking site for smartboards

DEN Connects is an innovative project from the Discovery Educator Network that encourages students and educators to connect to DE resources and each other.  

Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk, and it's Free and Open Source. Just move your mouse off the edge of one computer's screen on to another. You can even share all of your clipboards. All you need is a network connection. Synergy is cross-platform (works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux).

"What expectations do teachers need to come with? How do you support teachers going into 1:1? * Get rid of network Nazi's who don't have any business making curriculum decisions for teachers. (This comment received lots of applause!) * Invest in staff development. That includes instructional and technical support. * "Just in time training" available for teachers."

"At Learn it in 5, you'll learn what is Web 2.0, and strategies for using Web 2.0 technology in the digital classroom - all in 5 minutes or less. Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."

These are nice, I got the reference from another group.

Thinkfinity content providers are as follows: * ArtsEdge, a program of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, provides art education resources. * EconEdLink, developed by the Council for Economic Education, offers economic and personal finance lesson materials for K-12 teachers and students. * EdSitement, from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities, includes information in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. * Illuminations, created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), provides resources for teaching mathematics. * Literacy Network, a program of the National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy, offers resources for literacy instruction and lifelong learning for adults and family literacy programs. * ReadWriteThink, from the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), includes resources for reading and language arts instruction. * Science NetLinks, developed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), provides standards-based science resources including downloadable 60-second science updates. * Smithsonian's History Explorer, created by the National Museum of American History, features resources and artifacts from the museum's collections. * Xpeditions, from National Geographic, offers geography resources including printable maps and an interactive atlas. Professional Development Thinkfinity provides a number of professional development opportunities. Many Virginia educators have become Thinkfinity field trainers through online training classes and have become certified trainers. Resources A special Educator section highlights the newest available resources. Correlations between the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) and Thinkfinity resources are available in the following Excel spreadsheets

This Social Ribbon Generator allows you to create ribbon ads that invite your visitors to check out your social networking profiles.

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.

Connect with educators who share your interests | Share lesson plans | Compare notes on resources and products | Discuss topics of mutual interest | Write a blog | Share files, images, and videos | Message and chat for instant dialogue | Create groups to build community and collaborate.

I've written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows Vista.

Give Kids Discovery. The Internet for Kids! A Web Browser, Search Engine & Social Network Just for Them.

Play JamParty is for all ages, all abilities, and all levels - beginner to advanced. It is a musical sandbox where even beginners can discover their own musical creativity. Create Create your own original music for multimedia projects, poetry, lyrics, dance routines, and much more. Share Turn your original music into an mp3 with a click of a button, use a screen recorder to record a video of your jam, and share your jam on a social network. Learn Learn about musical/sound awareness, rhythm, song structure, etc. and More: See how other educators plan to use JamParty at school.

Historical note - when the first Access to Network Resources came out in Arlington we were tasked with coming up with a list of DOs to put on a poster. You may have an old one hanging up somewhere. The Students Will... the only one we couldn't wordsmith was not operate a business. The others were put into the form of what we expected to the students to do.