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"I've been doing a few presentations on building your own personal learning network (PLN) and wanted to demonstrated the power of a PLN in action. My focus on PLNs was for two main reasons: 1. If our aim is to use online tools with our students we first need to be using these tools for our own learning to appreciate how they benefit our learning and to ensure we use them effectively with our students 2. Ability to receive and give advice in our normal f2f interactions is mostly limited. Personal learning networks greatly enhance our ability to get assistance, increase our learning, reflection and innovation. "

The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

Our next generation of teaching and learning software has been designed by teachers for teachers, creating our very first user-generated solution - and we couldn't wait to share it with you… Activsoftware Inspire Edition delivers amazing functionality and exciting new features; making learning journeys more fun than ever before. Available exclusively to Promethean Planet members, our tailored preview specifically invites feedback, offering you the opportunity to shape the future of the de facto educational platform of tomorrow.

"I stumbled across Classroom 2.0 after reading an interesting article in the Village Voice on innovating learning efforts in the New York City Public Schools. These schools, instead of keeping kids out of social networking spaces and prohibiting the use of cell phones, were teaching kids how to use technology in an effective and relevant way."

blog post about why nings are a good thing in schools

A global event, now in its 4th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research. LEARN MORE: http://tinyurl.com/2f96u6s

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Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.

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Classroom strategies backed by research and ongoing teacher development are helping to narrow the achievement gap at this Title I school. See the infographic below for more details.

Neurologist and teacher Judy Willis will be presenting a 4-part series on how young brains develop neurologically.

An effective classroom-based program of differentiated instruction, called Reteach and Enrich, kicked off eight straight years of success at Mesquite Elementary.