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If It Was My Home is a simple site that allows you to quickly compare the current size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to your city, county, state, or country. Uses standard Google Maps interface.

This blog is done by a friend of mine. He has some great ideas for integrating technology in the classroom, and most of his entries are "good" reads. I have had the privilege to work on projects with him and this is where he highlights his ideas. Enjoy!

This is my updated page, with all current assignments posted and viewable. Remember as a tip that the COMET 1's and 2's said the most important thing you can do regarding your portfolio page is to stay on top of it throughout the program and not wait until the end!

This article reinforces the importance of creating structure when using social media in the classroom. "... the use of social media in school can't be left to chance; it needs to be mediated." I think this article makes great points about integrating SM into the classroom and its role in empowering our students.

This is such an important topic, Christine. As we begin to bring the social media tools that our students use on an everyday basis into the classroom it is so important that we create that same "structure" and "guidance" that we do with all of the other tools and materials that we use. They need and expect this from us in this rapidly changing era of technology.

Pew Research indicates poor and drop outs trend towards cell phones for information. (No surprise).  

What are instructional design considerations to keep in mind when desiging mobile learning for pay-as-you-go learning populations?  What are accessible m-learning activities for these learners?

Clearly, designers should strive to create resources that are as easy to access and use on a cell phone platform as they are on a laptop if they hope to reach these populations. Regarding the high school dropouts: I'm inclined to think there is more going on here than just money issues. There might be a perception that cell phones are "cool" while using a laptop is nerdy and bookish.

Learn more about Twitter-talk here. Wondering about the @, #, and retweeting? This page explains it in an entertaining way. It's called Twitter for Dummies part 4. There are other parts as well.

According to Google, this resource is so easy to use that kids can create their own Apps, though limited to Google's Android OS. Google borrowed some code from a teacher education program at MIT as their building blocks. They hope young people (and teachers) will be inspired to become serious App creators. Critics say it will only add to the hundreds of low-quality, useless Apps that are already out there. What do you think?

Augmented Reality examples - both books and discussion of mobile device-based AR. RWW.

ISTE description of Soloway/Norris preso on Mobile Learning.

List of educational Facebook applications.

Online Schools is education made fun. We're a bunch of guys who spend our free time trying to come up with informative and engaging informational graphics. Great source for aesthetically pleasing, student friendly display of facts and concepts. Brainstorm: Would this make sense in a Prezi? PPT with sliding transitions? Or?

Middle School teacher experience and tips for using Facebook in the classroom.

Examples of Twitter use in SDSU classrooms

I'm not sure if CLRN is living up to its potential, but this website has links to many electronic resources, electronic textbooks, media reviews, and other information for educators. It is worth checking out!

Kelly, this looks very interesting. There are a few resources in the Visual and Performing Arts section that I think I could use. I'm still not clear on whether this is a free or pay-as-you go resource but I am going to sign up for their "trial account".

Free stock photo search engine.  Good place to start for images.

Tons of information from emerging technologies to trends in education! This is definitely one worth subscribing to!

This is an awesome site. I got three cool resources right off the bat that I bookmarked for coming up teaching year.

Enter in words, click spell and this site generates your word with pictures from flickr. What a fun and creative way to use flickr and pictures.

Find flashcards to study or create your own flashcards. Study flashcards or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.

Even stuffy ivy league universities are seeing the value of adding social media classes to their MBA programs to encourage new business models. Part of this is a reaction to some embarrassing errors made by major corporations: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html

Thanks for posting this Cathy! Ken and I were having a difficult time finding images that were free to use in education. We did not want to find ourselves using materials without permission. Thanks for the post!

Good glossary for online and social media learner newbies. Clear explanations, further links and resources. Terms covered: Avatar Blog Cloud Computing Personal Learning Network (PLN) RSS Social Bookmarking  Social Networking Tag Web 2.0 Wiki

Just the perfect site to help me with the glossary we want to include in our Moodle training for teachers manual! It's funny the way these terms float around out there, but most people have only the haziest idea what they actually mean! I know for a fact that our teacher-learners will benefit from a concise definition of such things as "wiki", "blog", "RSS" and others. And framing these terms within the educational context makes the definitions even more meaningful.