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What a great idea! Collaborative novels, 140 characters at a time... this Plurk thing has potential.

This is an example of a Shelfari page that I created for my students who were working on independent author studies. After students wrote book reviews on their blogs, I added their titles to the shelf. by embedding the widget onto my blog, everyone could immediately see what others were reading.

This New Zealand site hosts interviews with educators who talk about learning and technology.

Slideshare presentation by Michelle Eckstein of Boulder, CO on how to provide enrichment opportunites using technology.

What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they're teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that they must b

The blog is general is great-- this post in particular talks about how to be a great blogger (especially for teachers).

Great post from a great edublogger! Thanks!

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.

A collection of technology tutorials for teachers.

Kind of funny... a negative review of Diigo on Mashable.com, wherein Diigo users used the highlighting/annotation tools unique to Diigo to comment about why the reviewer is wrong. But, of course, you would only see those highlighted portions and comments if you were using Diigo...

When people are unenthusiastic about social media and other Web 2.0 stuff it is tempting to be a bit sneery and say they don't "get it". Who can fail to see the benefits of publishing without publishers, and organising without organisations? The tools may take a little getting used to, but surely they are worth trying in pursuit of a better world? Maybe for you, but not necessarily for them. It could be people do get it and don't like what they see, because your world view isn't theirs. If they say We can't do that - and they mustn't do it either, it may be a reflection of organisational culture - or something deeper about the way thing work.