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Well, yes and no - facebook is a platform that has a bias toward anonymity which lowers inhibitions, so this teacher probably never would have flirted in person with students, but did online.  Also facebook has limited expression - and it is documented.  If this happened in "real time" - nothing likely would have come of it.  I"m not excusing the teacher, but we need to guard ourselves against tech

This webquest has sequential details with lots of resources or links to articles. It also has a page for the teacher. However, one of the overall purposes is to teach people the importance of recycling. I find this ironic because one of the end goals is to print off a newsletter that students can give out to anyone involved, which is a waste of a lot of paper when there are so many other technologies that can do this without wasting paper.

This seems to be a better webquest because students have to COME UP WITH solutions rather than simply find solutions.

That is so funny! If the whole idea of the project is to recycle, they should have incorporated technology (like email) and save paper. In this case, the best thing to use would be technology.

Out of this list, very few would promote the goals most teachers have for students.  Most of the tools assume kids are already highly motivated learners.

Slideshare is a tool for sharing power point presentations. Looks interesting. 

kind of like Jing

Pay close attention to the caution the lead researcher uses.  The headline says "tech improves learning", the researchers know better.  More likely, the teachers were more willing to try new teaching strategies because they were going to have to learn the technology anyway. 

lets give this thing a try trying to link some different comments on here