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Ideas for why you might want to use Twitter for class...

This is a fabulous site! Read high-quality picture books from all over the world in different languages-page by page-illustrations included!

This blog post is about the preparation for a presentation, but there are links to the presentation, and another one someone else did, as well as other resources - a course for parents to do with their children, etc.

I am amazed that they put all of this up online!  80+ presentations that have been recorded in a variety of ways, from the 2011 conference.  Take a browse through - there is bound to be something you're interested in finding out something more about.

It's about time!  Now you can search for videos on YouTube that permit you to use them up front.  Have you ever used the YouTube Video Editor - something else to check out!

Little is known about the population of educators who teach online, especially with relationship to preparation from their teacher education programs. This article discusses the results of a national survey of K-12 online teachers from across the nation to ascertain how prepared they felt they were with regard to three key areas: technology, pedagogy, and content, including combinations of these domains, as described by the technological pedagogical content knowledge framework (Mishra & Koehler, 2006). Overall, K-12 online teachers indicated that they felt the most prepared in the areas of pedagogy, content, and pedagogical content. They felt least prepared in the areas of technology, including technological pedagogical knowledge, technological content knowledge, and technological pedagogical content knowledge. Implications for the field of teacher education are discussed, including the need to more fully integrate technology within the coursework and field experiences of teacher candidates, and the need to create courses, or specific modules within existing courses, to address topics of importance to virtual teaching.

google or apple?

Whether PLN is over-hyped and overrated and whether PLN friends would be friends and mentors in real life

Web 2.0 technologies serve humanity.

I don't have an iPad or a WordPress blog, but this looks like a lot of fun! I wonder if it would work with an iPod Touch or iPhone? Android phone?

here's a list of sites that I found many of you would like to explore

This is the story - as seen through Twitter - of how a man tracked his stolen laptop and how his friends helped him find it.

Backchannel communication is a secondary electronic conversation that takes place at the same time as a conference session, lecture, or instructor-led learning activity. On an informal basis, this might involve students using a chat tool or Twitter to discuss a lecture as it is happening

LOTS of information here about Twitter - answers questions about retweeting, hashtags, chats, and much, much more.

He says he will help you make the most of Twitter by using an application called TweetDeck.  He explains how to use TweetDeck in this video tutorial, part 1.  Link to Part 2 included.

YouTube video on using the "direct message" feature on Twitter.

Teaching materials for the Less Commonly Taught Languages

a variety of ways to use Twitter and the results from using it in his class