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News editors and journalists don't give our wonderful students enough credit and enough accolades! We spend hours telling students how much they are valued and appreciated in schools, then they go into the 'real world' where they are portrayed so poorly by mass media.

While most districts are still tackling Web-based collaboration tools from pedagogical and security perspectives, a large number of teachers are already out there using these tools to supplement instruction, engage learners, and encourage their students to become producers of information, as well as consumers of it. In other words, they're experimenting. And here are some of the free tools they're using to do it.

Glogster edu the best edtool in education #edtech20 http://deenakelly.edu.glogster.com/lucian-duma/

#edtools of the day #schoox your social and #curation edutainment network . For more #edtools https://twitter.com/#!/web20education

gr8 #edtech20 stiky note /websites who can be used free on-line in your projects or in your classroom part 1 https://twitter.com/#!/web20education

 Happy #EuropeDay 2011 teachers around the European Union 

Such chaos hits home for Nova Spivack. Before he started his own company, Radar Networks, the 39-year-old entrepreneur and grandson of late management guru Peter F. Drucker, had so many virtual folders and bookmarks, he'd routinely lose track of important messages and links. Since then, he has watched social news and bookmarking services such as Digg and Delicious (the latter sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million) garner avid followings for helping people find and store new information.

free and open-source web service - gives tchrs & kids forums, blogs, comments, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, rss, microblogging, widgets, and video commenting - plus curricular materials.

In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear,