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Centralized location for using all sorts of collaborative social media tools.

Site to view the presentation on March 31st 2009. Presentation sponsored by Tech & Learning

While K-12 district administrators are "overwhelmingly positive" about the value of Web 2.0 in schools, the use of Web 2.0 tools in actual learning environments is "quite limited," according to the results of a new study from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for district technology leaders.

This looks like a great list of websites for teaching and learning, organized into Organizing and Managing, Content Collaboration, Curriculum Sharing, Media Sharing, Virtual Environments, and Social Networking and Communication.

cipals and teachers. Our goal is to provide social networking for you and your 21st century learning students. We respect student privacy and as such only you and your students can view your network and posts. Give your students the skills they need to survive in today's technological world!

The "professor versus laptop (or other wireless access device)" issue is a false construct if we view technology-mediated learning as a social system offering many ways to alter one component and thus change the whole system. Rather than seeing distraction as a challenge, educators can see it as an opportunity to reflect upon and change the design of their entire instructional approach. Creative and innovative educators can use technology innovations to help reform teaching, similar to the way Guttenberg's press helped bring about scientific revolution and modern authorship.

Cleverbot learns from real people - things it says may seem inappropriate - use with discretion, and at YOUR OWN RISK

Just type in a conversation starter ... and wa-la you can have a conversation with a human-like computer!

Experimenting with tech tools to enhance language learning

This is a new page  of the Directory showing SOCIAL tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classrooms. (The rest of the Directory also provides useful tools)

Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo

Great information that will help both educators and students figure out how to use Diigo in the classroom.