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SOPHIA creates a vibrant learning community that empowers students to learn in their own way, helps teachers to innovate, and provides an opportunity to achieve an affordable college degree. We are surrounding the traditional classroom with a worldwide classroom that connects people who want to learn with people willing to teach. SOPHIA is a first-of-its-kind social education platform created to reach 21st century students: digital natives who grew up with Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube in a highly interactive and personalized digital world. We believe that a social learning experience, one that encourages exploratory and cooperative learning, is an opportunity to make higher education more affordable. At SOPHIA, we are putting students on a path to a lower cost college degree. Thanks to WYATT from Tuesday's ED554

200+ articles and resources about Twitter for Learning

World clouds have become very popular. Thanks to the Wordle javascript (www.wordle.net) anyone can make a beautiful picture with words. There are however some drawbacks, such as the Wordle picture can not be saved (directly) and because of copyright modifications or alterations of the Wordle application is out of the question. Word clouds are playful and it is very attractive way to show text. Here we offer yet another application to the list of our creativity tools: Wordaizer. This new application offer the possibility to tune, shape, create, print and save any word cloud that you can think of.

Wix.com lets you create a free Flash website without the need to code. With a stunning drag & drop interface Wix lets your work flow naturally and eliminates any obstacles that stand between you and beautiful website creation. Artists, photographers, entrepreneurs and small business owners in a variety of industries love Wix for its smooth ease-of-use and brilliant collection of quality web design. To learn how to make a website, just sign up with your e-mail account and you're ready to go.

This is our transcript from the Backchannel discussion we had on June 5

The Three C's of Social Networking: Consumption, Curation, Creation

Interesting blog with many resources for ESOL teachers.

A great list of skills for what is needed in today's classroom.

Twitter is intertwined with just about every aspect of the daily life of students, teachers, and everyone else online. That's why I thought this new infographic by Masters Degree Online makes some interesting points. If you can overlook the spelling errors, you should take a moment to learn a bit more about the relationship between Twitter and grades.

Thanks to Kristen Freudiger for sharing this...too cool!

"Social Media Revolution 2010 "

thanks to @@kac53860 for sharing this link

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.

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"Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)"