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"Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?"

The article is a great example of the debate surrounding the use of social networking in schools.

Article discusses the controversy pertaining to whether schools should ban social networking sites or teach students how to use the sites appropriately.

Another good summary of Skype recording tools

An article by Nancy Willard in Education World that outlines the 6 key components that schools should have when addressing the issue of internet safety.

A website that has creative commons photographs indexed like an encyclopedia.

Another Web 2.0 tool! This site is much like a bulletin board, where you can post Post-it-like notes. Joyce Valenza blogged about it, suggesting you could use it for backchannel feedback in class. It could also be used for collaborative note taking, gathering feedback, having discussions, etc.

Lots of great tech tips. A good site to syndicate in Google Reader!

An article concerning blogging and teachers, which I may use for Week 5 discussion.

Awesome MIT press article on adult perceptions of the internet and social media vs. those of students, and the power relationships entailed therein.

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

We all know Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing. But here is the intresting part, we know a lot about Google and about their products and services, In the screenshot let me show you what according to some intresting Twitter users Google is all about.

Google recently tested a new interface for search results. The test didn't include any new feature and Google even loaded the standard search results page to display the results. An important notable change is the new format was that Google didn't load a new page to display the results and browsers didn't send proper referrals when clicking on search results.

AppLocker provides a comfortable way to block software programs from being executed on a target system. If you need to prevent an application from running accidentally or would like to disable an application you can't uninstall, AppLocker provides a simple interface to do so.

It's simple with the new "AwesomeBar" this is a completely revamped URL bar in firefox 3. it lets you use the URL field of your browser to do a keyword search of your history and bookmarks. No longer do you have to know the domain of the page you're looking for - the AwesomeBar will match what you're typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by "frecency" (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).