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This is site where teachers can find books students will find interesting in required subjects. It's also possible to host video conferences with the authors through this resource.

Blog about technolgy, first blog deals exclusively with our author, Cuban.

I thought the blog you posted here was full of well intentioned, relevant posts. It is great to have a resource from a teacher's perspective that is out and dealing with technology. The growing pains of others can be the building blocks for the rest of us. Thanks for sharing.

I agree that this blog is a useful resource that can be used efficiently in my own future classroom because it contains relevant blog posts about using technology in the classroom. I feel that this resource is geared towards teacher use because the blog is about using technology in the classroom, which is generally, up to the teacher to decide and when how to do that. Great technology resource! Thanks for sharing.

This site shows you how to create podcasts for your classroom. Some suggestions this site gives for using podcasts are: weekly classroom news broadcast, document a field trip and, record a class discusson.

I think resource has great potential for use in a classroom. I would probably use it myself, as a teacher, to learn how to record my English class discussions, or to do posts on different authors or other topics and send them out to my students. It could also be a great tool to use for students, helping them consider taking a different angle on the typical project or presentation. Apple gives another great how-to on creating and using podcasts here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html. We should consider multiple forms of expression, not just text, when using digital technology with students; listening can be so useful!

Podcasts are great ways to record classroom lectures in college. I would think it would be useful for staff and students. However, I have never listened to a podcast myself, so I don't know how well they meet the needs of a student. I'm also wondering if because of more availability of video recordings of classrooms that podcasts are diminishing.

Tips from an educator on how to use web 2.0 tools in the classroom to help meet the needs of students..

This is a great resource for educators learning how technology is being integrated into the classroom. The author of this blog is a high school teacher who integrates Google Apps and cloud-based applications in their classroom. The site is updated every so often providing tips, resources, and tools that are working well in the class.