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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)

A collection of web 2.0 resources and tools aligned to ISTE NETS to engage and motivate student and teaching learning.\n*Fantastic lists of online tools available*

Twitter As A Professional Development Tool: http://bit.ly/e3h4UY

Most of the research on the implementation of electronic portfolios has been in higher eduction. Most of the customized e-portfolio tools, both commercial and open source, have been created in and for higher education, whereas the paper-based portfolio process itself began in K-12 schools. Over the last eight years, there has been a decline in the use of paper portfolios in schools, perhaps due to the dominance of high stakes standardized testing, even though the integration of technology has boomed. Perhaps more K-12 schools will again consider the use of ePortfolios, but adapted for the different culture of elementary and secondary schooling, and focusing on formative, classroom-based assessment for learning, which prior research has shown to be the best way to improve student achievement (Black & Wiliam, 1998).

Which tools do you use in your library or school?: feedback from our tech survey http://bit.ly/i67oHm

Welcome to the world of Diigo, one of the leading Top 10 research tools. Diigo is a cloud based information management system that helps you organize relevant facts you find online. With Diigo you can keep track of those favorite websites and revisit them from any computer at any time. Diigo is a great way to improve your online productivity and is widely used by educators.

Delicious is slowly being phased out. There's a ton of competitors out there licking their lips to get their hands on your bookmarks. This means each one is building their very own Delicious Bookmark Importer tool to make it easy as pie to move your content onto their system. But which one should you choose? Let's take a look at each option to find out:

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

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.

A list of different ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into the classroom or learning space. Simple, quick. easy to look at ideas.

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.

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

Free Technology for Teachers: (Richard Byrne)

Nice Collection Of Web 2.0 Rubrics: http://bit.ly/g59RqQ

Edmodo user guide

Good overview of Diigo

Great interactive site for digital literacy.