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Good personal collection"Over the past academic year, my students and I have been experimenting with the use of a number of web based applications (often known as Web 2.0 tools). My aim has been to enhance our schemes of work by providing our students with new and exciting learning opportunities."

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The purpose of this forum is to discuss how to encourage faculty members to expand their range of instructional strategies and enhance them via the creative use of educational technology.

I thought this post did a good job explaining what Twitter is and how it can be used to build a Personal Learning Network.

Here's my list of essential videos to introduce teachers to Read/Write Web

Water for Schools is harnessing the passion and talents of students to raise awareness and funds for freshwater projects at schools in developing nations. It takes just 4 schools, raising $5,000 each to give water to 1 school in need.

There is a great service learning opportunity here. The founder was profiled in the NYTimes today by Kristof http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12kristof.html?ref=opinion

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These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology.

There are a lot of free podcasts that have been created with the teacher and tech nut in mind. Most of these podcasts are available free through iTunes. (If you don't have iTunes, you can download it for free at Apple.com.) Here are 20 iTunes feeds that would be of interest to tech-savvy teachers:

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Members of an internet safety task force on July 8 suggested several ways to improve cyber safety for children, focusing on three key areas in particular: education before a child gets on the internet, control while the child is online, and having set procedures if problems arise.

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents. The PBS Digital Learning Library content will be easily searchable, tagged and correlated to state education standards.

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents. The PBS Digital Learning Library content will be easily searchable, tagged and correlated to state education standards.

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50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story