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Handy tool for research about the most retweetable words on any given subject. Easy to use. Assign to students to develop discussions and critical thinking processes.

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools

A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.

A good site for creating private Twitter-like networks where colleagues can send messages and attach files. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Awesome list and well organized. Great for the beginning tweeter to the most advanced!

Tired of delivering the typical stream of status updates on TwitterTwitter? Why not try some of the following ideas for other things you can do with the

The easiest way to share events and other real-life activities with friends, Plancast easily plugs into Facebook and Twitter. The easy to use interface enables quick sharing of a plan - what, when, where - with the options to include a description, link, locations and maps. You can tag your plans for easy searching and the interface provides local plans that you might find interesting, and enables you to profile your social networking tools. Each plan can be shared with Twitter or Facebook and there are widgets, logos and buttons for blogs and websites. New features include a categories list. Click on the link to see an example.

#1 = Twitter

wikispaces, poll everywhere, edmodo,screencast, Celly,dropbox, youtube, twitter,evernote, teaching channel

BufferApp is a neat way to space out your tweets. Help spread the word!Invite a friend who uses Buffer and they'll give me and you space for an extra Tweet in our Buffers. Their way of saying thanks! Use this link with friends: http://bufferapp.com/r/b4242

Vicki Davis looks at EasyBib, Mindmeister, track-changes, table of content, thesaurus, template gallery, texthelp study skills and highlighting tools, workflows, Uber conference calls, consistency checker, gliffy diagrams, twitter curator, Kaizena, document merge, and open clip art.

Still sage on stage, but good resource for engagement...the comments section has a good listing of similar tools as well and observes the inclusion of the SAP Web 2.0 tool into Prezi as well!

"Diigo -- highlight and comment on student blogs Wikis or Google Sites -- http://wikispaces.com or http://sites.google.com/ Voicethread-- http://voicethread.com - example: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b1240008.i667294 -- create space to display or share student work across classrooms, across school/district, and/or with larger school community Create interactive "Bulletin Boards" that highlight levels of work/performance Interactive work gallery/critiques Gallery of VoiceThread in education projects - http://voicethread.com/about/library/"

Twitter Hashtag: #W2TW12 Full Session Description This Classroom Instruction That Works "Cool Tools" session focuses on how we can integrate Web 2.0 tools with research-based effective instructional practices identified by Marzano's meta-research. Come explore tools that support effective instruction while making learning fun and engaging for all students.

5 favorite teacher tools on YouTube.

I gasped. "What about Ethics? Character? Kindness?", I wonder. I continue to wonder (now with my TEACHER LENS),  "I've never heard of a school based PD about Minecraft servers, or world bucket". Come to think of it, I've never heard of a mandatory in-service, PD session about any social gaming , or media tool or strategy. 

This is a great idea but the site itself gave me an instant headache because of the color combination, could it be toned down?

Great post on the value of "openness" and using Twitter for professional learning.