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Ron Peck (@Ron_Peck on Twitter) teaches social studies at North Valley High School in Medford, OR. A self-proclaimed history and tech geek, he's the co-creator and co-moderator of #SSChat and #APChat on Twitter. Visit his blog at http://historygeek29.blogspot.com/. How many times have you thought to yourself, "In what way can I spice up this unit and make it student-centered?"

A link for how-to videos regarding Web 2.0 How to blog, social network, podcast, wiki, etc.

Power my Learning is a website dedicated to providing Teachers, Studenst and Parents with additional tech resources in all subjects and grade levels. You can watch videos, click on your grade level or subject area and find activities and games, and even read teacher blogs.

This article includes a link to a blog started by one of this teacher's students on "educating the educators" about social media.

Larry Cuban's blog on Las Montanas High School- Laptops in the classroom

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Blog offers ideas on how you can integrate technology using devices you may already in a creative way to make up for the lack of classroom resources.

A great resource for teachers, parents and students via Shelly Terrell @ Ed Tech Crew on Diigo. Check out "Clean-up Your Digital Footprint" on the right sidebar, and "Facebook for Educators and Community Leaders" handbook in the blog section.

Calling all teacher-leaders -- you know who you are! This is a great article for any of us to read because as we learn more about integrating technology in our classes, we can help not only our students, but also other teachers, our schools, and communities stay relevant in the 21st century. 

A great post that reminds readers about the transcendence of narrative writing across genres (and across subjects!) The teacher uses historical and science fiction as inspiration for her ELA students' writing projects, but ideas, such as the "What if . . ." digital presentation project she mentions from Larry Ferlazzo could be used in almost any subject. The author's ideas for having students prove their informational research are also very helpful. I loved reading the post, too. Her, "Nobody puts baby in a corner," quote made me laugh out loud.

A new survey of early childhood educators shows they think technology can play a positive role in children's learning. But they need support in order to make use of new tools in their classrooms. We are on the cusp of tremendous changes in early childhood education as technology introduces new opportunities for learning and teaching.

Smart, Take-it or Leave-It, or I Don't Care" - blog entry about VARK learning styles and how technology can be used in all areas.

Be creative, help people and make dreams come true with engineering. Play games, watch full episodes and video clips, design new inventions and share them in this social community. Try engineering and science activities or compete in contests on DESIGN SQUAD NATION's educational website for kids. Read a blog from real engineers.

Voki is a free service that lets you create customized avatars and add voice to your Voki avatars. You can post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile.

What is Voki? Voki is a FREE service that lets you: Create customized avatars. Add voice to your Voki avatars. Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile. Take advantage of Voki's learning resources. What is Voki Classroom? A classroom management system for Voki Students do not need to sign up!

Character creation for education - create a digital lesson for your students - set up a digital classroom

A plainspoken, non-technical overview of basic HTML tags bloggers may find useful for making tweaks to their content and why they might want to do so. Also includes links to additional HTML resources for those who want more.

science buddies offers science project ideas, blogs, teacher help, lesson plans and careers, and much more. Every science teacher can usable content at this site.

Blog site with 48 posts on Connectivism.

Never too early to learn about SEO. This site is about increasing traffic to your blog or web site.

Why learn Dreamweaver when WP can build more than a blog?

TwitterPad is an automatic RSS-to-page/post plugin to collect to your blog Tweets to that have identical hashtags.