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Visualize your social bookmarks and clipmarks

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

Producteev is a new generation Task Management web application that drastically simplifies the way you work with your team. Connect with your colleagues, Follow their activity status and news feed in real time, Manage your Projects in a fully customizable drag-and-drop dashboard, Collaborate with your team thanks to intuitive social features, Share and Comment on files.

sPaste is a tool to help you quickly and securely send small snippets of data around the web. We give you options and advice, you decide how much security you need. Simply give us the text you wish to send, some info to secure it, and we'll give you a secure URL which you can provide who ever you wish to send the data to.

A chat with professionals from Skype. We debunk some of the common misconceptions and fears about using Skype in the K12 environment. Hopefully this chat will help allay some of the Tech Director and Administrators' fears from allowing Skype usage on K12 district networks.

This is a terrific list of online applications.

If you are a Twitter user this blog post is a MUST read!

"New media allow for a degree of freedom and autonomy for youth that is less apparent in classroom setting. Youth respect one another's authority online, and they are often more motivated to learn from peers than from adults. Their efforts are also largely self-directed, and the outcome emerges through exploration, in contrast to classroom learning that is oriented toward set, predefined goals."

This is a great blog post to use to frame a discussion about the educational applications for Wikipedia and the importance of teaching media literacy.

Key points: -There is a generation gap in how youth and adults view the value of online activity. -Youth are navigating complex social and technical worlds by participating online. -Young people are motivated to learn from their peers online. (this is a key finding in the study and very relevant to educators) -Most youth are not taking full advantage of the learning opportunities of the Internet. (another finding that could impact the way teachers engage students in online learning) "The research demonstrates that, although many young people are developing a broad range of sophisticated new literacy and technical skills, they are also facing new challenges in how to manage their visibility and social relationships online."