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Academia.edu helps academics answer the question 'Who's researching what?': * You can find people with similar research interests to you * You can keep track of the latest developments in your research area - the latest papers, talks, blog posts and status updates * You can create an easy-to-maintain academic webpage, listing your research interests and any papers you have written.

Academia.edu helps academics answer the question 'Who's researching what?': * You can find people with similar research interests to you * You can keep track of the latest developments in your research area - the latest papers, talks, blog posts and status updates * You can create an easy-to-maintain academic webpage, listing your research interests and any papers you have written.

Currently there are close to 30 different presentations exploring Interesting Ways to use a whole variety of different types of technology in the classroom.

That's right! Voxopop talkgroups let you discuss your interests and passions with people from all over the world, using your real voice. It's a whole new way to talk online. Find talkgroups to join, or start your own and spread the word. Great for families & friends, interest groups, website owners, bloggers, podcasters and teachers. Start talking, it's FREE!

Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email. * Stay up to date Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. * Share with your friends Use Google Reader's built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family. * Use it anywhere, for free Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email. * Stay up to date Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. * Share with your friends Use Google Reader's built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family. * Use it anywhere, for free Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. A web-based version of WorldWide Telescope is also now available. This version enables seamless, guided explorations of the universe from within a web browser on PC and Intel Mac OS X by using the power of Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. A web-based version of WorldWide Telescope is also now available. This version enables seamless, guided explorations of the universe from within a web browser on PC and Intel Mac OS X by using the power of Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.

"Moreofit is the first (and best) website similarity search engine. Give moreofit a website you're interested in, and it'll suggest to you alternative highly related and popular websites to explore. why? Sometimes it's hard to know what to search for, and sometimes search just doesn't cut through the clutter. If you've already found a site you love, just tell moreofit, and it will show you similar and alternative websites. how does it work? moreofit takes over 130,000,000 instances of people manually organizing and describing websites and combines this with sophisticated matching and clustering technology. In short, it's magic. "

Enquiring Minds is * a response to the challenges schools face in the task of preparing children for a future characterized by rapid social, technological and cultural change * a distinctive approach to teaching and learning that takes seriously the knowledge, ideas interests and skills that students bring into schools

Shows you how Google search rankings correlate with conversions and revenue for keywords purchased - interesting source of statistical data.

Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. [Over 20000 members.]

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

An example of a class blog, with a particularly interesting section on how to make worm farms.

Welcome to the AVALON project website, your route into virtual worlds for language education! The information presented in this website (click on the right-hand menu for specific topics) is addressed to anyone interested in virtual worlds for educational purposes and in particular to: * Language teachers * Language learners * Teacher trainers * Learning technologists * Decision makers in the field of education The AVALON website provides you with access to: * Information about the use of virtual worlds for language education * Information on how to Get Started in the virtual world of Second Life® * An Online Community of educational experts and language teaching practitioners who are using virtual worlds for language education * Guidelines for teaching in virtual worlds * Resources for Teachers * Resources for Teacher Trainers * Resources for learning technologists * Tested Course Scenarios for use in virtual world environments * An Open-source archive with selected 2D and 3D content from the project

Will be giving a workshop in assessing online discussions soon and this page has some interesting comments on this topic.