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Here is a nice story about a student who created an online site for posting compliments for other students online. Can bits of this be used with our blogging?

Online sticky notes- always students to comment on topics

Virtual Choir 3, 'Water Night', received 3746 videos from 73 countries around the world and launched on April 2nd 2012 at a live event at Lincoln Center, webcast on Lincoln Center Website, and revealed online. The directors, Cake, developed creative solutions for this volume of material to a brief, working closely together with Eric to develop the final film inspired by the Virtual Choir community and the text from Water Night by Octavio Paz:

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My activity on my blog as well as on Twitter have diminished as of late. I still find an incredible amount of value/entertainment by engaging in the online discussions, I just find it harder to make time to write and send out 140 character tidbits.  

"If you missed Power Searching with Google a few months ago or were unable to complete the course the first time around, now's your chance to sign up again for our free online course that aims to empower our users with the tools and knowledge to find what they're looking for more quickly and easily. The community-based course features six 50-minute classes along with interactive activities and the opportunity to hear from search experts and Googlers about how search works. Beginning September 24, you can take the classes over a two-week period, share what you learn with other students in a community forum, and complete the course assessments to earn a certificate of completion. "

"Every day, more and more people are choosing to live online and get things done in the cloud. Helping to make this experience as seamless as possible, Google Drive is one place where you can create, share and keep all your stuff. Drive is available on the web, as well as Mac, Windows and Android and iOS. Updates for iOS Starting today, if you're using the Drive app on your iOS device you can also edit Google documents, just as you can with the Android app. From your iPhone or iPad, you can create a new document, edit an existing one or format text. And, just like on your computer, you'll be able to see other people's edits instantly as they're made."

I have started to think about how to help students understand the importance of critically evaluating the information on-line. I have found a few sites over the years and after the year 8 immersion days I believe that it is time to come up with some lessons that teachers can use. There have been some very good posts about this topic already. Langwitches post "Don't Believe Everything You See Online" being one.

Now an essential online medium, video is a useful way for teachers to supplement classroom learning and engage students in content they can't access on field trips or through books alone. However, finding and sharing videos can be a challenge due to safety and compliance concerns. That's why M86 Security created VuSafe-the secure, simple way to share Internet videos.

There is also the Lightspeed Resource Library allowing for the same feature set. The great thing about it is videos can be submitted, organized by content area, and presented in a pretty nice interface. You can find more information about it here: http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/resources/Educational-Resource-Library.aspx

Teaching Channel is committed to showcasing effective and inspiring teaching in public schools across America. Since our "beta launch" in early June, we have reached thousands of teachers in all 50 states. We thrive on your feedback as we rapidly grow our collection of videos and tools for online collaboration. Our mission is your mission: to improve the outcomes for all students in America.

Garfields Life Skills- Cyberbulling, Self Esteen, Peer Pressure, Online Safety and More

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Glogster EDU Premium is an education collaborative online learning tool for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom.

Really interesting online tool for helping young writiers.  Heck!  I even enjoyed it!

Letterpop is a service that allows you to easily create online newsletters with text and images and several pages. It offers a free plan with which you can publish up to 10 newsletters. You do need to create an account. You can take a screen shot of the newsletter so that you do not have to publish it. We were also able to have 18 people logged into one account at the same time. There is a feature that allows you to send out the newsletters to an email list. (if you publish them).

Matrix of Web 2.0 Tools.  This wiki breaks down tools into categories of write, create, present, collaborate, communicate online, and more.