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As educators, we could stand to do some of this with students. I wonder what this would look like in the classroom? I wonder what it would look like from an administrator towards an educator?

Ed Shepherd, a middle school administrator in Virginia and valuable member of my personal learning network, recently posted a call for definitions of collaboration. In this case, I decided to forget my affinity for 140 characters and bring it to my blog. So, what is collaboration?

** good to share with PLC Copyright for Kids: A Three Part Lesson One of the most challenging aspects of my job is teaching copyright to elementary school kids. They honestly just don't get the idea that they can't take others' work and then claim it as their own. It's widely known that the problem lies with 20th Century teaching in a 21st Century environment: When finding information is no longer a challenge in the age of the Internet, why do we continue to assign research projects that register way-low on Bloom's taxonomy (Remember, Understand)? We need to cater our projects to the higher levels, like analyze, evaluate and create. So if I'm going to walk the walk, I need to create a project that helps students to evaluate, analyze and synthesize information and ideas about COPYRIGHT.

While providing great content is critical if you want to establish a loyal audience, it is only one of a variety of ingredients. Other factors come into play; most importantly, your visitors need to see that you've made every effort to accommodate their needs; that you've put much thought into their experience on your site. To create a blog that stands out from the others, use this list of useful WordPress plugins to show your readers that you have made the effort, and you'll be rewarded with return visitors and growth. So what do your visitors really want?

A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW WEB2.0 LETS US BE PRODUCERS AND NOT JUST CONSUMERS. Audiolife not only lets you create an online store to sell CDs and digital downloads, but it will actually manufacture the CDs for you, on-demand, as customers buy them. The up-front cost? Nothing. Zero dollars and zero cents. On-demand CD creation from Audiolife. (Credit: Audiolife) This is a big deal. As any self-financed musician knows, CD manufacturing is a big investment. Print runs for CDs with a jewel case and nice color insert generally start at 1,000 for close to $1,000, though you can get away with spending a few hundred bucks for a short run, if you're willing to pay quite a bit more per disc. This is all well and good, if you sell all of the CDs you print. If not, you're left with some expensive drink coasters.

The Collins Writing Program utilizes a "five types of writing" approach and is backed by several studies for its effectiveness.

Fliggo allows you to create your own video sharing website in seconds. It makes the process very easy by taking care of the technical part. All you have to do is select a title and address for your site, fill out description, choose site template, upload videos and invite friends. You can build a simple private site to share videos with friends, a video blog or a full-featured community video site like YouTube, where other users can upload videos, leave comments etc.

How to use Google Earth more effectively. Nov 26th 2008 4 Comments respond trackback Google Earth is a fantastic, FREE, tool for teaching and learning. There are many, many different ways of using it. It's almost as if the whole world is a canvas!

Free industry quality movies are pretty scarce but free music can be found in many places. So, enter what in my opinion are the best sites to download free music. Not the torrent or limewire kind; the I-take-it-without-paying-so-it's free, but music relea

Similiar to Diigo or Clipmarks as a research-oriented, annotable social-bookmarking service; unique in that it has you create topical "trails" of webpages to save and share.

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations. ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.

Virtual sticky notes...

Definitely an intriguing idea. I signed up for it, but it's causing a javascript error and so the page is not functioning for me.

A recent Pew Internet Internet Poll (pdf) conducted via interviews amongst over 900 parent-child pairs in the United States had some interesting findings when it comes to social media usage and content generation. One of them was an extension of previously known data, as in 2004 19% of teens were engaged in blogging, whereas now that number is up to 28%.

Visual search engine. Watch the video to see how it works.

"There is very convincing evidence that if children are not cared for in the early years, it may be too late. This is because of the effects on nourishment, and in turn, on the cognitive capabilities of children."

Service to monitor your DNS (Domain Name Server) servers. Checks and reports your DNS server for its uptime performance.

This is a no need to get software put on school computers alternative to JING. Will use it with a kid project on how to

The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave's best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here's how to manage a group project in Wave.

Many of the underlying standards that define modern e-mail technology were originally developed in the 1980s. Almost 30 years after the birth of SMTP, e-mail is still the dominant Internet communication medium despite its significant limitations and increasingly anachronistic design. Supplementary services like instant messaging and microblogging have emerged to fill in some of the gaps, but virtually no attempts have been made to build a holistic replacement for e-mail. Our most important day-to-day messaging infrastructure remains intractably mired in antiquity