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We've enabled people to access and repurpose the website and blog feeds that we've curated at Alltop: Widget. Create a widget of any Alltop site by going here. Then you can deploy these widgets in your blogs. These widgets display...

Looking for suggestions to share with new teachers...Which Web 2.0 tools do you typically introduce to students during the first weeks of school? Any new ones planned for this year? Please share both the tool and the instructional purpose you hope to achieve with it. Thanks for your ideas!

How do you get your boss to approve something, the customer service people to understand the pain a system is causing or the folks in engineering to see things your way? Powerpoint was invented for this precise function, and we...

A place to join a network of authors willing to Skype into classrooms to speak with teachers and children.

Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus

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As California prepares to become the first state in the nation to offer free, open-source digital textbooks for high school students this fall, state officials today gave an A-plus to a North Carolina high school teacher's algebra II textbook, one of the first open-source texts submitted for the program. Advanced Algebra II by Raleigh, N.C., math teacher Kenny Felder was submitted by Connexions, an open-education initiative at Rice University.

Using social media to guide and help you connect to social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, YouTube using social media

Working hard to earn your teaching degree, you are likely ready to jump right into your own classroom already. Before you do so, check out these blogs to help you prepare for the real thing.

Jason linked to this op-ed on the "endangered joy of serendipity": Serendipity is defined as the ability to make fortunate discoveries accidentally. There's so much of modern life that makes it preferable to the vaunted good old days - better...

Splashr is a simple tool for presenting Flickr photos in attractive viewers. Splashr provides a simple hackable url that you can use to build links to viewers once you know the viewer's code.

Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly.

How to make backgrounds. How to create and use tables. Great site for tips and tricks not offered by Wetpaint. Sample pages for inspiration. Useful tools for aiding in your wiki design. - Drop Cloth For Tables and Styles

A few weeks ago we decided to offer a technology 'boot camp' for administrators. CASTLE is working with the School Administrators of Iowa to make it happen. For those of you who are interested, here is some information on what we're doing: Promotional flyer Boot camp wiki The signs we...

LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is an Open Source PHP web application to develop, publish and collect responses to online & offline surveys.

Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. In example to surprise friends and coworkers, send a birthday greeting or to give your next blog entry a special look.

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the ...

Reading blogs and tutorials is pretty good, in fact it's great! You can learn a lot by doing this, but actually seeing and hearing (video and/or audio format), is a whole different world. I've gathered some resources and sites that produce audio and video content. Of course, most of them offer RSS and also iTunes subscription options. I personally like to download the podcasts and screencasts and play them on my iPod Touch (if download is made available). The sites are listed in no particular order.