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"In our continuing mission to provide you with the best online classroom management tools, we've added dozens of new features. We hope you enjoy these upgrades and that they help you as an educator." This wiki includes a short training video and a link to sample flashcards.

"Special Theme Section: Collaborative Learning Supported by Technology" - Many useful articles on peer-peer, teams and groups, using wikis, and using Web2.0

The official Knowledge Base has lots of videos to help you get the most out of Second Life. Has both text faqs and video tutorials.

A nicely visually organized type of wiki that you can share with others or not. There are a number of educational binders readily accessible, e.g. how to study, history, et al. Uses tabs instead of a sidebar menu.

Demonstrates how a wikitospeech.org app can be used pdagogically for show-and-tell, mcq, and linked responses. (See also the bookmark for Wiki-to-Speeach for the free download.) An instructional video is found at http://bit.ly/openallure.

This is a nice example of how to use Geocaching for project- or problem-based learning. Join the wiki and help add to the lore.

"Timelines is a site where history meets social media. The website itself is very useful by categorizing key historical events in several ways. You can browse the site by era, type of event (ie; war), or by date. They have a neat page where you simply select a date and the events that occurred on that date appear. Almost everything you find on Timelines is created by their community and registered users can record events and contribute descriptions, photos, videos and links related to events. Unlike a wiki, the site is built to display various (and potentially conflicting) descriptions of the same event from many different contributors which is always important when trying to understand historical events. Timelines is a great site because it allows you to report and discover history with your friends, colleagues, and students." from Learning Never Stops Blog

Link to a ninth grade class book used to help ELLs dvelop writing and thinking skills. Great ideas for your own wiki- or paper-based project.

wiki for the AALPD discussion

Wiki ,with link to other activities and blog by Dani Lyra, has ideas for lessons with young learners using a variety of online tools. Great for ideas, with RLOs. This particular page shows how to use VoiceThread to discuss differences in people.

This is an excellent description of what Thinglink is and how to use it: Tag an image with a little dot that links to a definition, further instructions, and active URL, etc. Very helpful for your webpage or instructional wiki.

A video on how to use Keek to make and share short video messages. Although limited to only 36 secs, this might be a good application for beginning learners, or for a quick pronunciation quiz (you will see who is taking that quiz!) You can also embed a finished recording in your blog or wiki, as well as sending it by email. A good way to have students create a short, practiced conversation. Also has smartphone apps for mobile recordings, RSS feed to follow, and links to Facebook, Yahoo, and Twitter.

Actual syllabi for sessions on technology.

Simple audio recording too. Click to start recording, and then send it to a student--or vice-versa. You can also embed the recording in your blog or podcast or wiki. You can link Vocaroo to your Twitter or Facebook account, sending it via your social network, or download the recording to archive as an MP3 file to show student improvement. Russell Stannard has an instructional tutorial at http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/vocaroo1/index.html

"So , as educators and teachers, you would be asking yourself how to ethically use images without having to worry about the copyright issues.Well the answer is very simple you will have to use images licensed under GFLD or Creative Commons especially this latter as it has images that can be used in teaching materials, blogs, wikis, ..ect. How to find such kind of images is what the guide below is all about. It walks you through the different steps on how to locate images licensed under Creative Commons . It contains illustravie snapshots and is ideal for use with your students. The guide is just two pages long but has everything you will need to teach your students about how to get free images in Google Image."

This is an incredibly good tool to shape your video instruction. EmbedPlus lets you annotate any YouTube video with your own comments and then embed it on your own webpage or wiki (also supports WordPress). You could take your own video, upload it to YouTube and insert directions for note-taking, suggestions for other activities, and so on. With the Pro version (currentl $14.99/lifetime!) you can add external links to your annotations, and the interface will inform you if a video you are using has been taken down or moved. A Slow button lets you watch the action in slow-motion. Again, the Pro service lets you crop and splice interesting parts of the video. I hope this tool stay around for a while and remains free.

"If for any reasons you do not want to upload your classroom videos to YouTube and are looking for another free hosting video that can allow you to upload and share your videos Google Drive is one of your best options. Only few Google Drive users know that there is a functionality in Google Drive that enables anyone with a Google Drive account to instantly upload their videos and after the upload you can get an embed code to integrate your video anywhere on the web. Here is how you can do it." Since many schools/districts do not want their students on YouTube, this is a useful substitute. I'd try a wiki like PbWorks to see if you can embed from Google Drive.

A screen recorder that comes in a free edition, as well as two more professional levels. Windows 7 only. Screen recordings are great for showing students how to use applications, open specific files/folders, etc. Students can also use a screencast to put together their project presentations on their own computer and then upload them as videos to YouTube or a wiki.

The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools." This may be an appropriate replacement for Ning. Looks interesting and is designed especially with educators in mind.

"This Twitter Wiki has been designed with the needs of individual teachers in mind and can be used in a number of ways: * ...present all or part of this ... to staff * ... powerpoint document can be saved and used at any time * ... individual learning ... " Professional development--how do you use Twitter for educational purposes?