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This journal encourages students to review and consolidate learning, evaluate performance, and plan future learning based on past learning experience.

blog, the contraction of the term "weblog," is a type of Web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts arranged in reverse chronological order.

Excerpts from Student Learning Journals 

Top 50 Blogs for e-Learning Tools and Tips

Top 50 Blogs for e-Learning Tools and Tips

25 Excellent Social Media Sites for Teachers

Yes, we hardly master a technological tool that another version of it or another one is already in the market!! oufffff. Can you keep up with the pace??? You have to be both a marathon runner and sprinter at the same time What should  teachers do then to be able to follow the pace. The teachers who are themselves geeks are finding it so tiring, let alone those teachers who are reluctant to adapt to the new IT era.  How prepared are our educators? This is a legitimate question. A post by Andrew Marcinek describes this situation and suggests that teachers (and students) should be allowed to adapt to new tech at their own pace:

echnology now is everywhere. We don’t know where it will take us as teachers, but also as citizens of the world. It will surely help us build connections and provide new information even more faster; it will save us a lot of time searching for what we want. We cannot and should not miss the benefits. But we must also bear in mind that human beings are born to engage in real face-to-face warm interactions. Without this very characteristic which is exclusively human nothing can be gained!!!

Remember that it is NOT about the tools we use with our students, but the skills we are exposing them to and want them to get proficient in.

With Quia, you'll be able to create your own online quizzes and educational games to help you study your materials in a more interactive fashion.

Teachertube is a great place to find instructional videos on just about everything. You can learn about the formation of mountains, world history and economics on this useful educational site.

In the video to the left teachers give a vision of 21st Century teachers. They are teachers who use Web 2.0 tools to facilitate social and collaborative learning.stress the importance of a global community and a community of learninguse interactive multimedia to engage studentsstress the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills in their studentshave their students construct their own knowledgehave students connect, communicate and create through multimedia projects using wikis, blogs, social media toolsuse differentiated instruction for different learning styleshave their students interact with others locally and globallyencourage students to be comfortable with uncertainty and nurture global confidenceprepare their students for the future not the past