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If you are a teacher and want to keep your finger on the pulse of whats going on globally in education or even locally. Get tweeting. This blog posts explains twitter for educators and why its import to develop a Personal learning network

A website where you can sign up on twitter to communicate with other teachers in a specific area you might be interested in. 

What to start tweeting? This is a great article for beginners.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about thinking. More specifically, I have been thinking hard about the absence of thought in education. The absence of thought in students, teachers, administrators and policy-makers. This year's political discourse is a wider-world reminder of the ubiquitous lack of thought on the part of otherwise educated adults. We know more but are oddly - increasingly? - thoughtless. Why? Thinking, in the sense in which I am interested, is not mere mental work (or idle mental noodling). There is certainly lots of that going on everywhere. Thinking in the educational sense is not about doing one's work. Little thought need go into a typical course pacing guide or by a student in filling in a Venn diagram. Those are mental tasks. Such work cannot by itself yield a truly thinking person.

For those that are thinking of jumping on the band wagon

Wow soooo many games sooo many sites. Should be something here for your classroom.

What a great idea for learning about our democracy unit civics and citizenship unit

a test url for sit team

Digital storytelling comes in many forms. Digital storytelling could refer to creating podcasts, creating videos, or creating multimedia ebooks to name of few of its forms. If you're considering developing your first digital storytelling project for your class, here some resources that can help you get started.