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"First off, where are the books? There are almost none left on the first floor. Thousands of volumes have been moved to the upper floors, along with the circulation desk. Some have been jettisoned."

Includes a comparison chart (Diigo, Delicious, Browser) and a high level overview of Diigo (including screenshots). According to Ruffini, Diigo "fosters research-sharing and collaboration in new ways. Not only can students bookmark, organize, and collaborate on various projects and research, but this service gives them - and teachers - the opportunity to organize and manage web resources and documents. Diigo has useful educational applications, as well, such as organizing bookmarks for resources and research, collaborative learning, and professional development."

Course Smart is a great site for students looking to find a textbook in eBook format. This site is geared toward higher ed students and they can browse by category and top content.

 iJourney allows you to create a time-centered digital story like this great biography of Andy Warhol posted on the site.

One stop shop for Google + info

This website, hosted by the Learning Technology Center in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, is designed to be a central point of access to the wide range of research, projects, and other resources related to the use of mobile technologies in Learning environments.

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.

" A recent survey of almost 2,000 teachers found that half think that using Twitter (and Facebook) in the classroom "is harmful to the learning experience." But, Los Angeles history teacher Enrique Legaspi disagrees with the naysayers. Last year he went to a workshop that discussed ways to use Twitter in teaching and now his students-even the shy ones-at Hollenbeck Middle School in East L.A. are speaking up more."

Article describes a classroom broken down into stations, each one designed to teach specific skills in different ways. A kid who needs to learn how to calculate the area of a circle could be taught in a group with a teacher, with a virtual tutor, or with a computer program.

Based on the book, Understanding by Design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) this article summarizes the process of designing courses as "backward process." The process has 3 basic steps - 1) Identify desired results, 2)Determine Acceptable Evidence, and 3) Plan Learning Experiences

We should make better use of Atomic Learning like in this example.

Lack of sleep contributes to lack of learning - we all know that, but this story highlights the connection to "always on" technology for teens.

"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."

" This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context."

Interesting take on teaching information literacy - learning how to evaluate internet resources by examining fake ones.

Basic videos to introduce common Web2.0 tools

a variety of tools for learning or improving foreign languages by connecting with native speakers online

A recent conference on eLearning - all the conference sessions are available via iTunes