Clif's Notes for Future Teachers

"DogEared is a blog ALL about books. Good books, funny books, adventure books. Books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places... Books about, well, almost EVERYTHING!!"

Create your own videos. Enhance anything on YouTube. Remake other blends. Add webcam video. Narrate your own photos. Add music, themes, and much more.

Create an online magazine. Collaborate with friends. An alternative to blogging. Possible classroom connections -Practice the writing process. -Alternative strategy for book reports and research papers/ presentations. -Role play a newspaper bureau or magazine publisher. -Fund raising. -Spotlight a cause.

Create accounts and groups for students. Special privacy settings. Ads limited to education.

With "Web 2.0 tools and applications, you can bring pizzazz to your presentations like never before. Whether you're looking for an "un-slideshow" altogether or just looking to add a little kick to the boring charts and graphs in your PowerPoint, you can find something..."

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers...

Interactive science content for grades 1-6. Well aligned with entire science curriculum for these grades.

Today's Meet gives you an isolated room where you can see only what you need to see, and your audience doesn't need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together.

Steve Dembo interviews Bernie Dodge

Finally The End To Copyright Confusion Has Arrived

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Tom Barrett shares examples of ways that he has integrated the use of the Wii with teaching and learning in his classroom.

Games for Wii, available from the Wii Shop Channel. WiiWare games are downloadable directly to your Wii in exchange for various levels of Wii Points. Just make sure your Wii is connected to the internet, and you can play new Wii games in seconds.

Online directory of educators interested in collaborating via Skype instant messaging and video conferencing. Good way to organize collaboration with classrooms around the world, invite in guest presenters, receive/provide assistance, support and professional development.

Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.

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.