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"Organize Your Education!™ GradeMate is a powerful online organizer for teachers and students to keep track of their courses - from managing grades, assignments, and events to sharing files, course notes, and class discussions."

Teachers can create an online community for their students. "Share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts. Post discussions, deadlines, homework. Instrantly create surveys for students. Keep parents informed of daily projects." "Not only will twiducate.com give your students the web 2.0 skills they need, but also expand their reading, writing, thoughts and ideas beyond the classroom setting."

Teachers are tapping into technology and digital media for learning. Watch How Google Saved a School and discuss the hype and the hopes for improving education through technology. More and more educators are tapping into the power of digital media and technology for teaching and learning. The variety of information resources available online is simply staggering. Explore how teachers and students are using the power of social media to promote students' active engagement, critical thinking and literacy skills. New Forms of Learning. It doesn't need to happen in school. Because it's visual, interactive and social, learning can happen anywhere with digital media as people collaborate and share about a wide range of topics and issues that matter to them. Technology and School Improvement. Technology may transform schools by promoting student engagement and creativity. But critics fear that too much focus on technology takes attention away from what's really needed to improve schools: capable, well-trained teachers; student-centered learning methods; and smaller class sizes. Hope, Hype and Reality. Are today's learners really different from previous generations? Compelling images of students using digital technology are impressive, but the research evidence on the impact of technology on learning is more mixed. And it's sometimes hard to separate the scholarship from the marketing hype, given the deep investment of technology companies in promoting the idea of technology's transformative potential.

Nice article discussing the use of flip videos as a learning/meaning creating tool.

Terry Freedman discusses different tools for creating word clouds including wordle, tagxedo, and many eyes. 

One way is to listen to an online lecture as well as read an article on the same topic and take notes. Prepare both an oral and written summary of both. Discuss the two materials with a friend and prepare a vocabulary list of important words on the topic.

Discussion and polishing of the new Free Online Electrical Troubleshooting Simulator game app.

Flipgrid was used at the beginning of class to introduce ourselves and discussion post.

From Ian Jukes website: video interview on CNN Dr. Gary Small discusses his book iBrain and how technology changes the brain.

This Free Technology for Teachers posting provides links to teacher blogs discussion how they use backchannels in their elementary classroom.

Social collaboration for teens and their education counterparts. Free resource for education to share, create, and connect projects by teens with teens.

For nursing students or professional nurses in general, a huge source of insight and confidence often comes from the communities they find online.

Why students need us--before they grow up!

The forum for parents, teens, experts and more to discuss safe socializing on the fixed and mobile Web.

Allows you to watch online videos without all the distractions. It removes the ads, discussion boards, etc. Works with Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more

Quietube is a bookmark button that removes comments, advertisements, and all of the other "noise" typically found on Youtube, Vimeo, and other video sharing sites. Just the video remains. Can also send the quietube video to others using a shortened URL. Very useful in removing possibly offensive comments, inappropriate advertisements, or other distracting content on a website.