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"LEARNING TOOLS DIRECTORY 2010 More Collaboration Tools TOOLS: A-K | Tools L - Z These are further stand-alone tools suitable for individuals to work and learn more effectively with others - as well as on their own. Key: B=Social bookmarking and web clipping tools C=Calendar/event scheduling tools M=Mind mapping tools N=note taking/sharing/annotation/whiteboarding tools R=research tools O=Other collaboration tools Free tools are shaded grey = a Top 100 Tool, click on the star for more info"

This is the interactive Edgalaxy Teaching Ideas Mind Map. You can zoom and scroll around the map to find exactly what you are after. Remember to click on the the little page icon for a description of the task and the little arrow will take you to the link.

On my recent trip to Shanghai China for the Learning 2.011 conference I was struck but so much that the experience will likely feed my thinking for the rest of my life. The conference is a bringing together of international school teachers, led by some of the most stellar educational minds of our time. The cohort leaders at this events lead with kindness, expertise and amazing resumes in the forms of blogs, podcasts, books and proven thought leadership in multiple realms. It was in this rarified company that I was given time and opportunity to go out and explore China as a pedestrian learner.

About Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom. The problem with traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom environment is concerns over privacy of the students. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers also have the ability to send, alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component built by allowing at the teachers discretion to post any item to a public timeline at the teacher's discretion.

VoiceThread Mobile for Apple® iDevices VoiceThread bridges the gap between real-time discussions and static multi-media slideshows, making it the platform for on-demand teaching, learning, training, and collaborating. We are working with the lofty goal of true accessibility so that any "door" used to access VoiceThread is equally effective for your means of participation. "We want to serve the needs of a person with dyslexia or ADHD, an outdoor classroom with mobile devices, a user in the developing world without high-speed internet, a kindergartner, or an elderly lifelong learner." (Read more) With that goal in mind, we'll be releasing a Mobile App this fall for the iPad®/iPhone®/iPod touch® that will provide the same experience of creating and collaborating around your content on your Mobile device that you would experience in the web-based application... and we're pretty excited about that! Take a look, and tell us what you think.

This infographic points out several excellent items to keep in mind when designing a website.

"Comparing the Costs of an iPad Classroom to the Traditional"

Excellent video about Technology, Really thoughtful and entertaining.

"America's teaching corps is made up of three groups with distinct attitudes about their profession, which has implications for policymakers."

Great visual designed by Sylvia Duckworth comparing folks set in their ways and those looking to learn on a regular basis.

This is a great article to start those discussions with preservice and current teaches looking to learn how technology can be integrated successfully.