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Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics. This is the newest installment of the Did You Know? video series from Erik Qualman.

This article speaks of the importance of teaching our students to be powerful researchers, not simply passive consumers. I like the ideas listed in the "Get Started" section: * Create the researcher role as a student assignment. * Show students different search engines. * Build a search engine for your classroom [such as a Google Custom Search Engine page].

This is a great collection of ideas for how to meaningfully integrate the use of a wiki in your classroom.

The Museum Box site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. The project was inspired by anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson who carried a museum box with him to display artifacts of the realities of slavery.