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Some good writing and grammar tips.

For many book lovers, it's hard to resist adding new volumes to a personal library, especially if they're at a bargain. These resources and tips can help you get a head start on everything from deciding what to buy to organizing what you already have.

Tips on how to run your own unconference.

So can you please share with us: * Why you blog? How does it benefit you or your work? * How you use blogging with your students and how it has helped them (if applicable) * Examples of class and/or student blogs for them to check out * What are your 3 most important tips for educators, new to blogging, who would like to blog with their students?

Whether you love or loathe technology the reality is that it's going to play a big role in the future of libraries and educational facilities all over the world. Mobile technology has been at the center of a lot of discussion lately in research and library facilities, with schools like ACU choosing to distribute iPhones to new students for educational purposes. While the long term value of the iPhone as an educational tool is still up for debate, there are a number of ways librarians and researchers can begin using the technology to help them find information, catalogue their collections and much more. Here are a few ideas and tips to get you started on using the iPhone for more than just calls.

Each day seems to produce a new hack, tool or tip for better Gmail use. In this post, I want to highlight only the very best, hand-picked from hundreds of resources. This is not another resource list you'll bookmark and never look at again. These tips, monster resources and tools will change the way you use Gmail.

Another blogging challenge which lets you win 12 months free edublogs supporter subscription. Just blog and share your tips.

Great list of Twitter tips for teachers trying to get started on Twitter.  Also, easily customizable to teach our students about Tweeting.

Create word clouds with just about anything. (Tip from Tammy Worcester) paste in free answers from Google forms surveys. (Tip from me - paste into MS word first and turn it all into lowercase.)

7 video tips from great educators regarding the use of "New Media" in the classrooms. 

iLife is heading out to folks as we speak. This is a nice post showing some cool things to do with it right away.

We dived right into the new suite and came up with 20 tips and tricks that we hope will help you enjoy all the features the new iLife '09 has to offer.

tips and research about how to prepare students for conference presentations. how it connects to student voice. how to get the most out of the experience for students. special notes about "student panels"

This collection of tips was transcribed from a seminar given in Seattle by Edward Tufte

Wiki tips from Louise Maine, educator in Pennsylvania.