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Create fake Facebook walls for fictional, historical, or any person you'd like. Useful for digital storytelling projects looking for a 21st century social media redux, or perhaps recounting complicated story arcs and/or historical events using status updates, wall comments, and other faux Facebook features.

A wide set of wikis that demonstrate the "wide walls" afforded to teachers and students through the use of wikis. Related workshop: http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Wiki+Workshop

"Hang your favorite book on the wall with the book's text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book! "

These are web applications that let you create private (or public, though for educational uses I'm primarily interested in ones that allow you to create "walled gardens") networks to share blog posts, images, videos, websites, and chatboard conversations.

Projector provides IWB functionality w/o actual IWB.

Part 1 of 100 Web Tools to enhance Collaboration

Is this the direction textbooks will take in the near future? The content is important and is the center of this idea. It's also slightly portable (downloadable, accessible on up t o3 computers, and able to print 30%). This site makes annotations possible and more importantly sharable! The content is supported by learning communities! I like this idea; you even have the possibility of sharing beyond your classroom walls. 

A great post by Ian Jukes. The writing is certainly on the wall for the "bring in the expert and sit up straight" style of professional development. I've been wondering for years why schools don't pool their collective expertise to create a culture of learning in their schools. Some of the "experts" that are brought in don't even have the practical or even theoretical expertise of residing staff members. This year a visiting professional told me, "When it comes to schools, there are never any prophets in your own backyard." The zeitgeist is certainly suggesting we need a change.

Network on using web 2.0 technologies in schools.

Ideas on using Twitter as a teacher

Explanation of Twitter

Connect with other people.

Broadcast meetings

Internet 4 Classrooms list of virtual field trips

Collaborative document sharing.

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