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Jeff Dunn (2012.07.24) posted "a new list for 2012, featuring the very best tools available to Twittering teachers today" (¶1).

This 17 page guide provides "a detailed description of how each tool can be best used by teachers" (Edudemic, 2010.06.14, ¶2).

Ten Excellent Online Apps For the Innovative Teacher

This is one of many resource sites suggest on the Edublogger: http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/06/30/share-your-tips-for-creating-andor-finding-images-for-blog-posts/

"Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students.... Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection" (About Pics4Learning, 2008.09.03).

"'m at a small gathering of education journalists, policymakers and school leaders today, and in attendance is the Department of Education's Director of Education Technology, Karen Cator. Cator told me that teachers continue to thank her for outlining these important clarifications about schools blocking access to Web sites. For those who haven't seen the original article, which followed an article about surprising blocked Web sites, here it is again."

Online Games and Virtual Worlds for Global Education: Resource Packet for Teachers

ELT and the Crisis in Education: Digital Literacy

Have you ever tried this idea?

A site with great video for trainee teachers

This site contains resources for those who are just beginning and those who wish to explore in greater depth three important topics in higher education today, particularly as they are related to teacher preparation. The three topics of this website are: Multimedia Records of Practice to enable faculty to make public their typically invisible practice of teaching and to support their scholarship of teaching activities; Electronic Portfolios to enable faculty and students to reflect upon their learning or professional development or to support program or institutional assessment; and Digital Storytelling to enable faculty, students, and others to easily create digital stories with which they may share their reflections on their experiences in learning.

"Create a free classroom website or educational blog to keep students, parents, and others informed outside of class."

If you'd like to have your own educational website, here's how to get started for free. Please let us know if any of you has already tried it!

Thanks to Isabelle Jones for pointing out this new site for language teachers and teacher educators

Primary and Secondary Continuity in Foreign Language Teaching multi-national (European) educational endeavor: documents, forum, website under construction (2009.01.07) Project Description: http://www.pri-sec-co.eu/en/the-project/project-description.html

Introduces Diigo: lists suggestions for using Diigo in education from discussion with Clif Mims on why teachers and learners would, should could use Diigo, and diplays annotated screenshots showing how to activate and use Diigo functions

134 posts in Diigo facilitated/sponsored discussion (2008.07.30), several with interesting links

suite of conversations among educators and technology providers

Antoinette Spiegel's "curating niche to catalogue and share neat tech ideas, tips, techniques and favorite tech resources for teachers" (Home, para. 1, 2012.09.08).