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This app is designed to help students with Asperger's in a variety of ways. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who has worked with students with Asperger's if they think this kind of thing is helpful.

LearningSpace, a new tool from ePals that is also COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) compliant, provides K-12 appropriate selective access to the applications within a protected, customizable social learning environment. Schools and districts can customize the rules and policies that determine which groups, classes and projects have access to third-party applications.

Thought this may be of interest to those in the research team looking at PD and social media.

This article describes a new early detection method that uses eye-tracking technologies to gauge babies' social engagement skills and reliably measure their risk of developing autism.

Following up on Chris's comment about how social media is allowing students to create a society. Have a look. The work of this graduate class in anthropology is fascinating.

Social Network for teachers in schools? An interesting approach to learning communities. I'm interested to see how schools are using this tool. 

Talks about systematic change to education via technology and social media. Gives some good examples of two initiatives in schools. I think it's pretty relevant to what we talked about in class yesterday.

Edmodo And Common Sense Media Partner (the authors of the 0-8 report some of us read for Joe Blatt's class this week) to offer free teaching tools based on Dr. Howard Gardner's work at HGSE. The partnership provides teachers with a set of student activities based on Common Sense Media's free K-12 curriculum, "Digital Literacy and Citizenship in a Connected Culture," for the Edmodo platform. The curriculum introduces the basics of using social networks and other digital technologies safely, responsibly and respectfully and is based on the work of Dr. Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

eMentoring is a more powerful means of online professional development than presentations and, if done well, can use social media as an asset

A look at how teachers are building the community-centered approach to learning through social media.

This is a Slashdot article that points to a research paper (unfinished) that analyzes which elements are most important in the success/failure of a game. The abstract and conclusion sections of the article are succinct and accessible. The results are quite telling. One wonders if the results are consistent across game genres/audiences/distribution methods.

Ning trying to spread it's wings. Let's users create their own social networks-mini facebooks-if you will. Ning is slowly becoming popular in classrooms and institutions of higher learning

Sillicon Valley (Social) entrepreneurs hosting developer garage in Uganda

Imagine being a little middle-school basketball player, and getting a real email message from SHAQ. Thats what social networks are doing to allow novice teachers the ability to receive their most pressing questions answered by masters in their field.

The textbook publishers are working hard to stay relevant

The follow up book to "Groundswell" is being offered as a free download through Amazon until tomorrow. I thought those of you in this class may have an interest.