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A couple of weeks ago, Megan Allen, a fifth-grade teacher in Tampa who blogs at transformED, wrote a post entitled "I've got my teacher evaluation. Now what?" In her post, Allen shared six suggestions that would help link teacher evaluations to effective professional development. The following post is our response to Megan.

Find a link u want to share but aren't at your browser? This post describes the process for using ping.fm to post links to your delicious account via e-mail, txt message or IM.

Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads

interesting list...

"PSA campaign educates teenage girls about potential dangers of sharing and posting personal information online. "

"The time is finally here for my annual list of favorite sites of the year. This year I decided to up my post to the top 100 instead of 25 because of the number of sites that I reviewed and the popularity of the post. I tried to cover a wide range of sites, from flash-card creators to digital storytelling, and of course social networks, which really stood out in 2011. I hope everybody enjoys the list and has as much fun reading it as I did creating it."

This list ought to keep you busy for a while.

"Are there alternative presentation approaches beyond PowerPoint, and which are accessible to small colleges? We explored this topic through a NITLE prediction market, which closed last week. As noted in our earlier post, researching that game's outcome triggered a wide-ranging discussion about presentation methods and technologies. We will address presentation methods in a subsequent post; here we will survey available technologies. The prediction market selected five, when it launched this past May:"

"This blog is for elementary students to share their comments. There will be a new post every Monday. Students are encouraged to write often and as much as they wish in response to the post." Blog created by Sue Sheffer, "retired" technology integrator from Central York School District.

Holy cow! If I used Google Talk, I'd definitely use these talkbots. They do lots of things: post RSS alerts, suscribe to friendfeeds, post to twitter, etc.

Here's the second of the Will R posts that are linked to the Diane Ravitch post.

In light of the interesting back and forth that occurred on my last post, I've been thinking about what the fundamental lessons of schooling ought to be and the role of technology in helping us teach them.

"This is a post from my www.tweenteacher.com website. I had just seen Robert Marzano speak at the CUE conference (Computer Using Educators). I've posted before about my long journey down the Interactive Whiteboard road, but this keynote renewed my excitement even while I struggle alone as the only ELA teacher in my district with an IWB. Enjoy." (see link to actual Marzano presentation in the comments, too)

Snap Groups is a free, web-based service that helps you connect without the chaos of other online communities. Here's what's great about Snap Groups: * Snap Groups is faster than other online groups because it lets you send and read messages, called snaps, in real-time * No email flooding your inbox - and no spam or viruses! * Read replies and conversations without battling unwanted headers, links, graphics, and ads * See the public groups your friends are in, and what they are posting about * It's easy to unsubscribe from a group - or make groups private - with a single click * Automatically Tweet and email your friends from Snap Groups to invite them to your group! * It's easy and free to register, so join Snap Groups, and you can start posting in seconds!

"Since 2001, the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to "fix" those teachers who don't believe that the teaching of writing can be both fun and rewarding. If you explore our website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted here--during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. The Nevada teachers who participate in these professional development opportunities discover ways to be passionate about teaching writing, and here we share the very best, hoping that our passion is contagious to the teachers across the globe who have discovered what we've proudly posted here."

A monthly post of daily anniversary's, birthdays, notable events with links to resources that might be useful to teachers and students. November, for example (as I post this): Aviation History Month; National American Indian Heritage Month; births of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, several presidents, authors, artists; Opening of the Berlin Wall (and, in a perverse sort of coincidence, Kristallnacht in Germany). ...

WordPress plugin that converts all Joomla posts to WordPress posts.

Too lazy to learn SQL queries? No problem!

"Comments let you apply notes, questions, or observations to a passage on a wiki page - it's kind of like slapping a Post-it note onto the wiki page. Because they're linked to a specific part of the page, comments show you exactly which words they're about (unlike with an email or discussion post). And because the comments can be revealed or collapsed, they let you look at a page as either as an appreciative audience or a critical editor, depending on your needs."

anonymous one-time only blog posts without logging in or setting up a blog, with commenting and social sharing options optional. Gives you a unique web address to edit.

Questionable use since it is anonymous. But interesting.

Enjoy Fast And Mind-Boggling Communication Through Mobile Chat Applications Posted by Birds Revolution on July 12,2014 The mobile chat has fast and dramatically entered the existing latest trends around and captivating people from all age groups and lifestyles, yet particularly it has caught the attention of younkers.

Enjoy Fast And Mind-Boggling Communication Through Mobile Chat Applications Posted by Birds Revolution on July 12,2014 The mobile chat has fast and dramatically entered the existing latest trends around and captivating people from all age groups and lifestyles, yet particularly it has caught the attention of younkers.

Enjoy Fast And Mind-Boggling Communication Through Mobile Chat Applications Posted by Birds Revolution on July 12,2014 The mobile chat has fast and dramatically entered the existing latest trends around and captivating people from all age groups and lifestyles, yet particularly it has caught the attention of younkers.