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Best practices for Internet literacy and critical thinking with students. David Warlick's notes on Howard Rheingold's session. Also visit Howard Rheingold's Critical Thinking wiki to view his video on "Crap Detection" and digital literacies at http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/

The Flat Classroom Conference 2011 will held February 25-27 in Beijing, China hosted by Beijing (BISS) International School. Registration is now OPEN!

Keep up with all of the new apps that come out.

The Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad may be a breeze to use and fun to have, but what about blind students?The federal government is stepping in after a few lawsuits regarding how unfair these new types of books are for visually impaired and blind students.

Actually, the iPad is compatible for blind and visually impaired users. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7801280/Apple-iPad-is-great-gadget-for-blind-people.html

Session notes from "The Role of Interactive Whiteboards in a 1-to-1 Environment "

Shakespeare Sonnet Videos and other resources

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.

"Pocket-sized multimedia pico projector" and compatible devices (IPOD, ITouch etc.)

Pico Pocket Projector.

From Crystal Grandison: I thought it would be fun to pick some of my favorite tweets from #ISTE10 and share them with you all. Many of them I felt were thought provoking as well as great quotes to show the extend of how well this social medium has been used.

Another site with links collected at the ISTE Conference.

For the third annual Summer of Content effort, Curriki is soliciting premium content for Grades 6-12 in science, technology, and math, and for content in ELL / ESL for all grades. Do you have an instructional unit (or units) you're proud of that you'd like to publish and get paid for? Interested in earning money this summer to develop a new unit that will be shared with a global audience? This year, the Summer of Content Awards will be granted to student-focused units which include support material for teachers. We are looking for activities, webquests, worksheets, quizzes, and games that will engage students and help make Curriki a destination for students as well as teachers. Apply by July 9, 2010.

Three days of presentations where anyone attending ISTE can sign up to present, held on-site in its own live audience area with a Promethean whiteboard, a microphone, and amplified sound. Coordinated by Steve Hargadon. You can also find handouts from all of the sessions here.

In Norwegian with sub-titles.

Machinima, video created using 3D virtual environments, was originally developed by gamers but is emerging as a promising classroom tool for developing the NETS.

"Mike - "Do not do workshops around hardware and software training. The research is clear if you train teachers how to do spreadsheets -- if you teach them how to analyze data - they go back and teach kids how to analyze data and do spreadsheets." Cyndi - "Get rid of the network nazi's -- people who are IT people with no background in curriculum or education have no business making curriculum decisions." (Those who have heard me speak know I agree with this.) Mike- Leadership is everything - 4 characteristics of places where successful things are happen"

The proliferation of micro-miniature cameras allows an unprecedented look into the world's educational institutions.