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Middle School Teacher: A great mix of personal thoughts, ideas about education reform and practical tipsBetty's Blog: She's level-headed and yet passionate and full of both personal and practical wisdomCornerstone: Tons of practical ideas with a slightly cutesy perspectiveIt's Not All Flowers and Sausages: A blog filled with wit and humor, but often containing some sharp analysis of the systemBrazen Teacher: I connect well with this blog, because the author is as anti-standardization as I am, but she explains it in a much more creative style&nbsp;Science Teacher: One of the smartest bloggers around, a scientist with the soul of a poetCal Teacher Blog: Mr. Bibo is a man with wisdom, conviction and practical ideas. The blog has some real thought-provoking postsClif's Notes: If I needed one blog to keep me up to date on technology, it would be this. &nbsp;It's like having a tech guru on my laptop all the timeReach for More / Aspira a Mas: One of the few teaching blogs out there with a Latina perspectiveThe Power of Educational Technology: A little less practical than Clif's Notes, but constantly thought-provokingThe Doc is In: He seems to blog about everything, but with a distinct mix of both authority and humilityCountdown to Teachhub: I wish I had this site when I was first starting out. &nbsp;I felt like i constantly needed some practical tips and this site offers them. One of my favorite features is the YouTube writing prompts.&nbsp;In the Trenches: It's the kind of blog that I read when teaching feels a little lonely.

There is a temptation with using a tool like the wiki for teachers to simply introduce the tool and ask the students to use it, and then watch to see what happens. That usually occurs because teachers themselves are unfamiliar with the actual potential of the tool to the process of teaching and learning. While knowledge around this is still growing, we do know from teaching in general that students respond poorly to badly designed assignments with no real purpose articulated as to their connection with the learning outcomes or direct benefit to the student's overall learning experience.

Kindergarten: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=51141 Grade one: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 Grade Two: http://2mgems.blogspot.com/ Grade Four: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=94924 Grade Five: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=88116 Teacher Blogs: http://chalkdust101.wordpress.com/ More Class Blogs: http://lipskymatthews.blogspot.com/ and http://wwwmrshumphreys3d.blogspot.com/ and http://upperhouse.edublogs.org/

For Special Consideration - Especially for Teachers of Young Learners Flickr Storm: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ Read The Words (it reads the words...): http://www.readthewords.com/ Simplybox (organize web resources): http://simplybox.com/main example: URL: http://simplybox.com/embedded/?cid=21851) LetterPop (simple newsletter templates and tools): http://letterpop.com Moourl (url shortener): http://moourl.com Bubbleshare (image manipulation and more): http://www.bubbleshare.com/vozMe (embed spoken word - directions perhaps for non-readers in blogs etc.): http://vozme.comVocaroo (embed spoken word - directions perhaps for non-readers): http://vocaroo.com/File dropper (File Sharing and storage): http://www.filedropper.com/TinyPaste (share snippets of text via link): http://tinypaste.com/Good applications Gail. You have several of mine but some that I would like to add would be:1) Wordle - http://wordle.net - Effective and fun way to create word clouds, for introducing new topics and subjects, reviewing information, or just designing your world with words.2) Joggle - http://beta.joggle.com/ - Excellent tool for creating slide shows for student project presentations, for teaching multimedia lessons in class, or online presentations. You can embed movies straight onto your website. It is free and joggle hosts your movies.AND MY NUMBER ONE (For today anyway) - Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/ - Snap a picture of your screen, Record video of onscreen action, and share instantly over the web, IM, email, or embed straight onto your own website. THIS IS SO COOL! Jing is free and allows you to record screencasts, with audio, and save the files as a swf, or if you pay for the pro version, mp4 files. Jing also has automatic uploading capabilities with Screencast.com (So I guess I am recommending screencast.com too!) I am using jing to record lectures and upload to my website. This is very cool!

The Waldorf School that we are looking at seems to look at kids as individuals and treats the curriculum as a journey not a deliverable. Sure, the rhetoric gets a bit crunchy at times, even for me, but I can’t deny that it has a strong appeal for me, especially in the context of the conversations I’ve been having the last seven years. But here’s is the irony: the school uses very little technology. That undoubtedly will play into any decision we make, but it’s not a deal breaker for me. My kids have lots of access at home, and I know they’ll love having me mentor them if it comes to that. (Really. I mean it.)

If I borrow movies from a public library can I use them legally for entertainment in a school? No, not if the school itself doesn't have a license. A public library cannot pass on copyright compliance to anyone, nor can anyone else except Movie Licensing USA or the studios themselves do so. If you borrow movies from a public library for student entertainment, such as After School programs in an unlicensed school, you are not only violating copyright law but you are also involving the public library in non-compliance.

If I borrow movies from a public library can I use them legally for entertainment in a school? No, not if the school itself doesn't have a license. A public library cannot pass on copyright compliance to anyone, nor can anyone else except Movie Licensing USA or the studios themselves do so. If you borrow movies from a public library for student entertainment, such as After School programs in an unlicensed school, you are not only violating copyright law but you are also involving the public library in non-compliance.

he way Brainify tries to set itself apart, however, is in its exclusivity, Mr. Goldberg said. Unlike general-interest sites like Delicious, Diigo.com, and Ma.gnolia.com, Brainify restricts membership to those with college e-mail addresses. And rather than link to fried-chicken recipes or the latest YouTube hit, users are likelier to bookmark animated illustrations of particle physics or explications of John Donne’s poetry.

“To artificially limit the size of the community, it artificially limits the use of the product,” said Mr. Scheinfeldt, who is also a history professor at George Mason.

Limiting access to those with college e-mail accounts could create a “walled garden,” excluding those not traditionally considered to be part of academe, said Melanie McBride, a new-media consultant who teaches part time at Centennial College, in Toronto.