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James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.

Technology and teaching - two words that seem to fit together perfectly today for most teachers and learners. So much so that a slew of new blogs have come on board to talk about education technology - or, edTech. This list of the 50 best education technology blogs are not inclusive, as there are so many new blogs available; however, if you look at links provided by many of these blogs to other edTech blogs, you may learn about even more blog that you aren't reading yet.

This is a new page  of the Directory showing SOCIAL tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classrooms. (The rest of the Directory also provides useful tools)

Mobile technology has shown tremendous growth in recent years and now rivals other outlets as one of the most powerful forms of mass media. While mobile phones will not be the death of print, television or the Internet, it has proven to be a huge and unique new platform for delivering content. ====== Fantastic resource about mobile phones and telephone technology.

This article discusses how internet played main role in the January revolution of Egyptian, and how RAND foundation report expected what happened, this report was published in 2003 and discussed the relation between technology and non-democratic regimes in Middle East and North Africa.

***Note you will need your CSU logon to access full article*** This article discusses the need for social media policies in organisations and more importantly having organisations accept the fact that social media is being used daily and here to stay. Scott (2010) suggests the development of a new role titled social media administrator, a position that oversees the development of social media policies and the education of users' approach to using social media in the workforce.

***Note you will need your CSU logon to access full article*** O'Brien discusses the development of social media policies in local government offices, the casualisation of social media use is discussed and the fact that social media is everywhere and used by almost everyone warrants the need for policies and protocols that inform users of their rights and responsibilities. Instead of restricting social media use, O'Brien advocates that educating and informing users through guidelines is far more proactive and the way forward for web 2.0 technologies.

Whether you think email communication is good or bad, it's here to stay, and how you compose an email speaks to your professionalism, reliability, and personal image. So here are some tips on how to manage this vital tool.

Education 2.0: Social networking for your class. Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged.