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"Collect ideas, discuss and vote. That's how tricider works. Your team will make decisions faster without meetings or calls. Innovative solutions arise because everyone can contribute ideas and vote. Whether with friends or clients: taking advantage of all the opinions and ideas to find the best solution has never been easier."

Storify of a Twitter discussion on different platforms to enable learning - linked with BYOD

This is a really interesting QR code maker that enables you to add as much text as you wish in the note. A mobile page is then created and a QR code generated to which can be added an optional disqus discussion and a range of 'Like' buttons.

Superb tool.

"Sound Infusion is a unique learning tool that incorporates music and culture from all over the world. It is a free, online, interactive learning experience that blends music making and cultural awareness. Students can create their own songs from hundreds of different samples, save, share and discuss their work online with their classmates as well as students from other schools"

"Simple image collaboration and markup tool. Share, annotate and discuss images. "

via @rmbyrne

"I've just been browsing a report recently published by Ofcom titled "Children and parents: Media use and attitudes report." [PDF]. Much of my work in schools and with teachers involves discussions about the sorts of skills and dispositions young people need to be considered 'literate' in an increasingly digital world. The research carried out by Ofcom reveals some useful data to help inform how schools think about a response, including…"

Wide range of downloadable posters illustrating environmental data - useful when discussing pollution, distribution of resources, 'green' issues etc.

The American Federation of Teachers' new online community Share My Lesson offers teachers free access to the resources and knowledge of their peers across the country. Featured are nearly 260,000 teaching resources, a monthly resource calendar, free games and activities mapped to the Common Core and discussion forums. Teaching resources are divided by grade, subject and rating and include activities, puzzles, games, lesson plans, posters, assessments and more. 

The mission of Google Plus Daily is to deliver timely and quality news and content. We are your daily source for everything Google+. Together with our community, "Google+ Updates" (which has over 22,000 members), we want to be your first-choice for quality discussions, in-depth content and Google+ updates as they happen.

"NBN chief Mike Quigley wants an open debate on future options for the NBN. Recent developments in wireless technology mean there is a great deal more to be discussed about how the NBN connects to individual homes and businesses, writes Alan Kohler."

Moot (Beta) is a very interesting project in my eyes because there's a bit of tension in its design philosophy: it wants to take a step back into the past and recover the lost relevance of meaningful discussion (which they claim have died with social media) while incorporating features of the future (clean and responsive interface).

The mentality spurring the Discourse team is the desire to "raise the standard of discussion on the web through better forum software." Core to their actions is the belief that forums are an integral aspect of proper web communities, yet most forum designs are stuck in the 1990s. With Discourse, they want to make forum hosting easy, flexible, and appealing to the 21st Century.

Thorough discussion of the flipped classroom together with an exploration of how to implement it.

James May and his crack team of scientists, mathematicians, comedians react to whatever is in the news, trending online or being discussed at the water cooler. Providing leftfield insights, sideways interpretations, bizarre facts and hilarious animation, this channel is a mix of science, technology, history and current affairs.

"GeoGuesser makes students to use their eyes and become more observant of what is around them. They have to find the indicators (evidence) to guess where they are (virtually).They could discuss their ideas with fellow students. When going through GeoGuesser they learn about geography, how places look different in terms of plants, soils, colours and the architecture of different places of the world. 

"In this Podcast, Mike catches up with Lee Webster to discuss how you can use Google plus with your students"

"Classrooms using GroupTweet are realizing this is the perfect tool to setup a Group Twitter Account. No more messing with hashtags and having to instruct each student to setup their own hashtag searches or follow every other student in order to follow the conversation. With GroupTweet, your classroom will now have a single Twitter account that can be updated by all the students as well as instructors. It's a great way to organize and archive your classroom discussion under a single Twitter timeline."

 A great thought provoking poster that all 12YO+ should discuss with teachers, parents an peers.

A look at Tricider - a  tool that allows users to collect ideas, spark discussion and vote on any topic they want

This would be a great discussion starter for environmental change.