A great TED presentation I posted in my diffusion of innovation class, but the topic came up in our discussion on selling social media in class today. The presenter talks about getting people (teachers) to buy into your ideas.

Some key stats: 75% of Internet users visit a social networking site when they go online. People are spending 66% more time on social networking sites than they did a year ago. There's more interesting stuff in there. Check it out.

Videos and playlists by topic. Some great material here, especially for k-12.

This blogger (one from Evrim's list) had an interesting post about a survey he did and the responses he got. The question was: "What should they (administrators) see as evidence of Technology Integration in classrooms?" He wrote up a full article on it, but I think his blog is better with some snippets of responses.

Timely article. Akin to banning social media in the classroom?

Interesting article that compares the web to a city, where "for pay" sites are the gated communities. A fun read.

YouTube has integrated a better comment, response, opinion system. You know this was long overdue if you've ever read the comments for pretty much any video. EDIT: I'm not seeing much of the changes aside from some superficial ones. I'll have to mess around a bit.

A website with news of all sorts, mostly focused on various aspects of education. Not necessarily related to social media, though there have been a lot of articles about that.

An interesting article by the same guy (Nicholas Carr) that someone posted a "negative" article from earlier. He does raise some good questions, though.

My last article came from the ComETS listserv and I figured I should just share access to that. ComETS (Community of Educational Technology Support) is a group that started a few years ago. Members share interesting news and links about all things technology and education. I recommend signing up if you aren't already. There have been some interesting discussions and countless good articles.

Interesting article (with some fun games/tests) from the NY Times on how constant connectivity brings with it a certain addictive nature. It also offers some good information about multi-tasking and related perceptions/realities.