A free website that offers a clever way for students to create colourful pages online for both public or private access.
Highly recommended by Byron ;)
"Bringing Social Media and Web 2.0 into the Classroom
Brett McLennan and Christine Evely, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
January 2010, Online Professional Learning Program for Teachers
Web 2.0 and social media tools are becoming increasingly important tools to assist teachers in providing key learning for today's students. This session examined social media trends and provided participants with an understanding of the impact social media tools have both inside and outside the classroom. The session focussed on classroom strategies for both integrating the use of social media into the curriculum and linking it to traditional forms of classroom practice."
"Class Blogs - Teachers and students can create blogs to help facilitate classroom learning or the blog can be an extension of the classroom conversation."
turns words into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.