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"As Educators we use Digital Storytelling in many ways, from introducing new material to helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize large amounts of content and gain expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. It also can help students organize these ideas as they learn to create stories for an audience, and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way."

Show Me Whats Wrong is a very ambitious site w/ a great idea. This would be a site that is designed for people who need help w/ their computer issues. For example, one would go to Show Me Whats Wrong, type in name and email address and it generates a unique URL.

This oped piece suggest that as educators," we are called upon to challenge the way students already think and guide them into new patterns or ways of thinking as required, in order for them to grasp central concepts and applications of learning. Collaborative technologies, while not central to the process, can help facilitate this core function of education."

"Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. "

federal stimulus money that will help residents gain access to high tech jobs and training

toolkit of 10 services that can help you take control of Twitter and organize your followers

OneNote is available for iPhones now

YouTube Teachers is a site that is geared to help teachers use educational videos in the classroom. Also, it shows teachers how to record themselves and implement video that way.

Interesting - a visual and interactive map of tweets; not sure how it is helpful but it is cool!

Khan Academy - hadn't heard of this before but I LOVE the way instructors are using this to "flip" the classroom.  Using these short videos to deliver the content (lecture) and using the class time to do the homework where students can receive the help they might need.