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Here is an explanation of how Twitter list works and how to use it.

visualization of job growth and job loss since 2004 in the US

Do you trust technology? I think both are related, refusing to use technology because of lacking of tech-capability and unknowing benefits we encounter from them. What do you think?

While blogging has many benefits, there are some potential challenges and barriers that come with using this tool with students. It is important that teachers fully understand these before beginning to blog with their students.

How-to Twitter handout from EdNET 2009 'All a 'Twit about Twitter' Roundtable discussion

How-to handout from EdNET 2009 'All a 'Twit about Twitter' Roundtable discussion

Money alone is not enough to improve a country's education system. But without adequate funding for school buildings, technical equipment, teaching materials and teacher training, education reform is doomed to failure from the very outset. The Peruvian Government is well aware of this: for its planned reform of the education system, it has put a new distribution key for budgetary funds at the top of the agenda.

A chart that compares blogs, wikis and google docs.

Cool way to print class materials and distribute the cost.

MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we'll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.

They were all continually trying to figure out where we are, where we might be going, and the possible downsides and dangers of new technologies so we can use the new technologies to serve human purposes.

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.

This wiki is dedicated to the integration of cellular technology into the classroom curriculum: Cell Phones (CP), Short Message Services (SMS), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and Direct Inward Dialing (DID). It was created for the ISTE National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2009, in Washington, D.C. Please contact me if you have something I should share. Mail to: wardc@lake.k12.fl.us

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.

This morning President Obama gave what I would call his 'We're-Going-to-the-Moon' speech at the 146th Annual Meeting of National Academy of the Sciences. Earlier today I wrote a post, Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity for Our Children, on a comment by Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan about the need to challenge the educational status quo. After listening to President Obama's speech, I realized it was a Part 2 to my earlier post so I retitled the post 'We're-Going-to-the-Moon:' Part 1 and titled this post Part 2. Please listen to the entire speech and read the full text, but here I quote the President's comments on STEM education.