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Blogs are becoming more and more commonplace for educational use as alternatives to Learning Management Systems (LMS) or for the use of teaching aides in the classroom. With Class Blogs, teachers can create unlimited free blogs for bibliographies, assignments, e-learning, learninglogs, or student blogs for their students. If you would like to try out the service, subscribe to the mailing list below. When we are ready, you will be sent an invitation code to try out the service and you will also be able to send out invitations to friends and colleagues as well.

A general education blog about different strategies that can be used for students. Also includes many useful links to education websites.

On the surface, Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. People vote by sending text messages (or using Twitter) to options displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time. Advanced uses include texting comments to a presentation, texting questions to a presenter, web voting, and SMS interactivity in print, radio, and TV.

Many teachers use publishing as a way to display student work, but not many let the students have control of the publishing process. This process, which involves acquisitions, editing, design, production, and marketing, allows every student to participate

Times used to be simpler: a man was a gentleman, a woman was a lady. But today? Today the kind of questions we face include "Is it okay if I ignore a 'friend request' on Facebook?", "Is it impolite to put my cell phone on the table in the restaurant?" or "How long can I use the free WiFi in the café without ordering anything?". The digital lifestyle is changing our lives and our behavior. So who can we turn to for advice on questions concerning "Etiquette 2.0"?

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This is an interesting posting about teacher challenges with regard to technology use in the classroom.

Dr. Scott McLeod wrote about effective school technology leadership and the challenges teachers face with regard to use of technology in classroom

This course explores collaborative and emergent pedagogies, tools, and theory related to the use of social networks in learning environments. Participants gain hands-on experience with a variety social networking tools, create their own personal learning networks, and have an opportunity to develop a MOOC-inspired course for their learners.

"To be your trusted source of high quality online training and real-time video updates to the websites, mobile apps and online tools you use most."

"Education 2.0: Social networking for your class Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged."

Reminder Guru is a free service that you can use to have reminders sent to you through email, text message, or phone call. Creating reminders in Reminder Guru is very quick and easy. After you have registered on the service, simply fill in the reminder form with a message for yourself, choose a reminder date, then specify how you want the reminder delivered to you. If there are tasks that you need to be reminded of daily, weekly, or monthly, you can set reminders to automatically repeat at the same time every day or week.

CORE Education About this original series A collection of videos produced by CORE Education Ltd, New Zealand and used across the CORE websites. Go to http://edtalks.org to view EDtalks, our collection of nearly 300 videos for educators. # Episodes 584 episodes