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Heather Mansfield's growing list of tips on Web 2.0 Best Practices for nonprofit organizations (and anyone else with 'marketing' interests).

Lessons covering blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, and other Web 2.0 tools.

Heather Mansfield's growing list of tips on Web 2.0 Best Practices for nonprofit organizations (and anyone else with 'marketing' interests).

Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Secondary School Classroom: Unexpected Student Learning, Evolving Teacher Identity, and Emerging Pedagogical Issues

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"Student Journalism 2.0 engages high school students in understanding the legal and technical issues intrinsic to new and evolving journalistic practices. It is a project of ccLearn at Creative Commons, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in partnership with HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the University of California, Irvine and Duke University. "

"I often get asked how I managed to integrate technology into my classroom before I was a technology teacher teaching in a lab (with every child on a computer). I must preface this post with: I am not an expert. I taught second grade for one year and had two computers in my classroom and no computer lab for the school. I used what I had and found a system that worked for me. With that in mind here is how I made my 2 computer classroom work"

"Yes, we turned Office into a game! If you're going to spend time immersed in the inner workings of Office, by golly it should be fun. In Ribbon Hero 2, the player will hop on board Clippy's stolen time machine and explore different time periods. With each time period, they get to explore a new game board with challenges they must complete to get to the next level. Each challenge takes the player into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote to complete a task. Discover new Office features by actually using them, with a hint button to fall back on in case you get stuck. Race for a high score with colleagues, classmates and friends, or even put your score on your resume to show off your Office skills! "

Set Up a Free Math Program For Your Class Create interactive assignments for your students - with hints and video lessons. Proven to deliver results. TenMarks is mapped to state and common core curriculum standards for grades 2 - high school.

"iOS application that allows to interact with virtual models, created by means of the popular ARMedia Plugins, directly in the real physical space using AR (Augmented Reality) technology."

2 + 1 is comprised of middle school educators who have developed and present an innovative program called MathRocks! Their program combines the music of classic rock songs with original lyrics and PowerPoint slideshows to teach math concepts that range from basic counting to algebra.

"Lee Rainie will present a keynote discussion on networked learning at the The Free Learning 2.0 Conference on August 22. The conference is "a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on rethinking teaching and learning in the age of the Internet.""

Introducing the world's first topic-based newsreader. Built with Evri's breakthrough content filtering technology, the Evri app constantly and automatically indexes more than 2.3 million popular topics from over 15K of the Web's best sources. Available free on iPad and Kindle Fire.

AXA have agreed to sell UK life insurance and pensions business to fund acquisition resolution 2.75billion £. But fears mounted yesterday that the move by the French firm could lead to job cuts.

using web 2.0 to create interactive lecture with your students

There was a new area in which Fabio Capello, had to lead his team. This is the heaviest defeat of England have ever seen at a World Cup, outdoing a 4-2 loss to Uruguay in 1954. That makes sense primarily as a formidable pose, England defense.

"Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Music 1. Myna - Far and away my favorite online music editor. This is very similar to Garageband and a nice alternative for those who do not have the Apple application. 2. Soundation - Very easy to use, with a drag/drop interface for creating excellent-sounding music. 3. Jam Studio - Fun site that lets users select a "key" to play in and a theme to match. 4. Loop Labs - Nice time- line editor; learning curve is a bit higher than most sites. 5. Your Spins - Great site for mixing prerecorded music and sharing with others. 6. Indaba - Unique site where users can create collaborative music pieces to make one final product. 7. Creating Music - Very user friendly website shows kids how to create digital music. 8. Contrapunctus Variations - Wonderful site for creating orchestral music by selecting an instrument and clicking on a time line. 9. iNudge - Fun site for kids, who can make music by drawing shapes. 10. Glitchscape - Create sound by drawing vector shaped rectangles. "

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Joyce Valenza's place for sharing the latest Web 2.0 tools with input from participants at regional, national, and international conferences.