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Interesting platform for promoting and organizing student/community opinions.

WOW! School sponsored community wi-fi and the data to show it's improving test scores. Great ideas

Four great articles have come to light lately that point to research being done and what many of us in the Ed Tech community have been saying for a long time might just be on the horizon. That is that this technology stuff can improve education.

Great resource for developing district policy on "ECD" Electronic Communication Devices, the all encompassing term for cellphones

collect, reflect on and share your achievements and development online, in a space you control create online communities and social network through Groups, Blogs and Forums

The new library mission statement: "Take the world of data, combine it with the people in this community and create value."

Great piece on the nature of a post-Gutenberg society and the role of librarian as "a passionate raconteur of information".

"Here are 10 ideas that will help any teacher use the vast resources of NYTimes.com to show students the connections between any type of literature and life."

"The intent of this project wiki is to address: How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action?"

TED Talks sorted by subject area.

As New Slate teachers are looking to integrate technology into classroom practice, this Ning is the most robust and helpful community I have found for English teachers and elementary teachers of literacy and literature. Award winning.

If we end up using Elluminate for virtual classrooms, maybe we'd be eligible for some additional benefits. This is something to check into. I've used Elluminate vClassroom and it's a very powerful tool.

A YouTube Channel that has math and science videos to help teach specific concepts.

Discover science and math around us every day.  Use pictures, video to engage students thinking about STEM

I like reading marketing blogs because they focus on communicating and building support for new ideas--sounds a lot like technology integration and education in general. Consider this revised quote from the bookmarked blog post: "The reason social media doesn't matter is because, upon further review, it doesn't exist beyond a label. While all the categorizing, classifying and departmentalizing was going on, that which was called social media simply settled into the center of [learning] and [instructional] strategy and behavior. Everything that we called social media is irrelevant and mislabed - there's a new way of doing [teaching] and [learning] for sure, but it's a behavior and focus on [student] involvement that's become a new norm - and that's all there is to it. We don't need social media tools, social media plans, social media agencies, or social media departments, we need [instructional] strategies and [practices] that are informed by a terribly heightened [learner] expectation."

"My desire to digitally document these "evidences" of her learning in elementary school are strongly influenced by H. Songhai's 2008 K-12 Online Conference presentation, "What Did You Do in School Yesterday, Today, and Three Years Ago," and my experiences last May with my son documented in the post, "Throwing away 6th grade - OR - The case for online portfolios."