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Interesting blog article on the notions of a 21st centry learning. Includes several short videos about what teaching is.

If you are hooked on mobile and photos, this might be fun for you. Though smart phones can email pictures easily, Instagram is more of a social tool, lets you follow others, and lets you apply special effects to your pictures. Students will probably find it fun. This is a good how-to for both beginner and advanced, though it has no pedagogical advice.

Vance Stevens' course for the Petroleum Institute is filled with useful graphics and how-to information. Designed for EFL students, this is a great way to get your own course going, or it can be used as supplemental material.

"Learni.st makes it super easy to share what you know by pointing to existing web resources. You can use videos, blogs, books, documents, images, anything to explain how to learn something. This short video will teach you about the basics of Learnist like how the homepage is laid out and what is on a Learn Board." You will need an invite in this current Beta stage, but I think it will catch on.

This is a tutorial on how to get started at Learni.st, which lets you aggregate neat things you find on the Web. You can add it to your Facebook timeline (or not), Tweet it, and use images and video, while adding a few paragraphs on how to use the "learning" you added. As with a blog, others can comment on your contributions. Like WallWisher or Pinterist, items are collected bulletin board style. This tool might be useful for professional development, and for students as a means to collect Web items for a project. If being an archivist is an important part of the new Web, this might be a helpful visual tool.

Doodle lets you create possible meeting times and then poll everyone on when they would prefer. Might save some hassle, especially for online meetings.

"Communicating with and engaging your school community (parents, students, and donors) is essential is growing a great school. Facebook is a tool that school principals, admissions directors, and development teams should use to build this engagement. Here are four great reasons to use Facebook as a central tool for your school's engagement strategy" These 4 are ease of use, accessibility, ubiquity, and ease of management. Most of these reasons are the same as for blogs, but Fb seems the hot one today, and it is pretty easy to use. One important feature is that you can now put all your schools accounts in one place, and you and/or your students can protect page access. This should salve the worries about Internet safety. One problem may remain: Fb does get shut down in various countries for a variety of political reasons. Caveat user!

"Read on, and you'll find a wealth of resources, assignments, and amazing uses for Facebook in any type of classroom." You have to folow each link further, but there is a lot of great material and food for thought here.

This software can be used to create a mind map for use in the classroom

"Last year, with a fearless group of 10th graders in Katrina Kennett's English class at Plymouth South High School, we attempted to transform the traditional research process to a completely paperless one using a fresh new cart of iPads. " This case study tells exactly what the school's goals were and how they went about achieving them. Very useful article if you are ready to go mobile.

VIRTLANTIS is a Second Life-type community on OS Grid (a sort of open/free version of SL) used as a community for language practice. A virtual meeting takes place M-F noon GMT.

A place for students to connect with each other and practice language--free! One of the finest uses of social networking I can imagine. This is a site similar to Babbel which I used to brush up my Spanish before it became for pay. Let's hope this stays free!

A nice collection of Google Tools and apps made by a teacher for teachers. Other bookmarks may also be of interest.

Yes! Thanks for sharing. And delicious still seems a good way of sorting links

Similar to the new version of Google Docs, Sync.in lets online writers collaborate in real-time, seeing what each one writes, and even replaying a recording of the developing text (or chat).

Upload from computer or mobile, upload, email, and collect videos. Send them to Facebook, YouTube, Blogspot, Twitter, etc. Looks to be a very handy site to share projects.

A Book Crowdsourced in One Week May 21-28, 2010 An interesting experiment in new media. Contributions have been selected/edited by profs at George Mason Univ in the USA.

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 is an essential video to learn how to use Twitter effectively. If you are interested in mobile social media Twitter is needed, but TweetDeck helps you organize and use a variety of social networking tools. (This set of videos doesn't deal with the iPhone and iPad versions of TweetDeck, however.)

Has some comments for each tool about how it is used wth students, if it requires a download, etc. Linked from http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2010/07/14/best-web-2-0-tools-for-learning-teaching-languages/ If you download the spreadsheet from Google Docs, you can keep your own record, or you can add to the sheet here.

Add your favorites to this Google Doc list!

What does a friend of a friend of a friend know about you?