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Here's how to avoid three of the new Facebook's potential privacy concerns.

Totally agree with this list- inspiring educators

My feeling about this is quite clear... the learning is in transparency so I advocate not befriending students. Rather create a page or a group and interact transparently with the students there.

What are some of the key requirements for successfully integrating technology in your classroom? Not surprisingly, one requirement is adequate and effective professional development.

OH so essential!! I have a scar on my hand from falling becasue I texted and walked...

"I have been asked by a few different people to boil down the "essence" of teaching with technology, whatever that means. I doubt this is what they meant, but this is what they got, and I share it humbly with you."

"The Free Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker "

"The situation: You've just been given your first 15-page college research paper assignment. Your professor wants you to use books and scholarly journals in writing your paper, and doesn't want you to rely solely on Google and Wikipedia to do the research. What do you do? You could call your parents or ask advice from a friend. But a far better idea would be to follow these 10 best tips, offered by visiting blogger Cheryl LaGuardia, research librarian at Harvard University's Widener Library"

"Test their knowledge with an online quiz The perfect tool for the classroom, colleagues or just for fun. Create quick and fun quizzes to test their knowledge."

Popplet is one of my favorite web 2.0 tools , it is dedicated to having a creative work space for hundreds of ideas, combining sticky notes , a breeze mind map , presenter and a multimedia tool, all in just one platform that can present visual ideas in a multiple work spaces. It is an easy tool that even a kid can use it! . popplet is similar to various tools like stickynote and mind maps ones

"Educator-created tutorials on how to use technology in the classroom to engage and empower learners. Get Learning Suite - over 20 of our most popular software, tools and teacher resources in one easy download. "

"This solution needs the student to configure their calendar for SMS notifications and not all mobile operators are supported, but I will show how to make this work and you can decide if its worth the effort."

The Interesting Ways series of resources continue to grow as the community add ideas from the classroom. Below is one of the most popular with over 70 ideas shared by teachers for using Google Forms in a range of different ways.

"Here are tutorials our team has created to help show nonprofits, cause organizations, businesses and individuals how to effectively use social media, divided by subject area."

Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.

Enter some text or a URL in a spreadsheet and a QR code will be automatically created - all with the help of a little formula that you'll learn about in this tip of the week.

"One disadvantage of tablet teaching was that listening skills could be under developed." Very funny. This is like saying that using a pen could diminish listening skills.

"The current system of measuring scholarly influence doesn't reflect the way many researchers work in an environment driven more and more by the social Web. Research that used to take months or years to reach readers can now find them almost instantly via blogs and Twitter."

The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena. Browse the OSP simulations or learn more about our tools and curriculum pieces below.