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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.

The Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach.

Written by Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson\nFeatures internet resources, pathfinders, webquests, teacher tools, examples of content rich websites, collaborative online projects,\nlibrary & classroom websites

Free Technology for Teachers: (Richard Byrne)

21st Century Educator

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.

Despite their spectacular growth in both daily life and mainstream education, little research to date has been conducted concerning the use of social networking sites in foreign language learning. The aim of this study, therefore, is to examine the use of such sites to learn a foreign language. Using an auto-ethnographic approach that included self-aware participation, learner diaries and peer debriefing, we investigated the social networking site Livemocha to study Korean from our perspectives as native speakers and experienced teachers of English. Specifically, we focused our questions on aspects of socio-collaborative principles and practice. Results of a grounded, thematic analysis indicate that the site had number of counter-productive pedagogical impediments to language learning that included, for example, flaws in site design. We conclude our paper with suggestions for improved foreign language learning through social networking sites.

Create a free website\nIncludes Weebly for Education - a special version of Weebly for teachers and schools

How to set up a mock Facebook page about a character (eg. famous person in history)

'How to' tutorials for educators include:\nanimoto\nblogging\ndelicious\ndiscovery streaming\nemail tips\nfree multimedia\ngoogle applications\ngrants and contests\nprezi\nquizlet\nreadwritethink.org\nscreencasting\nvoicethread\nweb 2.0\nweblinks elementary\nweblinks hig

Educators that are not using Facebook often use the arguments that they are concerned for their: Privacy & Time.