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A post tjhat offers information for you to check out different types of class blogs to get ideas for your own class blog. You could also use this list to make connections with classes in other countries.

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Openness proponents contend that distance education often isolates students behind password-protected gates. By unlatching those barriers, professors like Mr. Couros are inventing a way of learning online that feels less like a digital copy of face-to-face classes and more like the open, social, connected Web of blogs, wikis, and Twitter. It can expose students to a far broader network than they would encounter discussing their lessons with a small group of graduate students.

Google Doc templates for science and math teaching.  Aimed at secondary school, there may be examples that can be reworked for other levels.

Stephen Heppell provides these eminently sensible guidelines for teachers wanting to use Facebook in conjunction with students.

The study reports an analysis of 85 lesson logs in which teachers recorded their use of space, digital technology, and student outcomes in relation to student engagement and learning.

As the topic for this week's OZ/NZ Flashmeeting was podcasting, I invited Mark Pentleton

Welcome to Jeff Utecht's wiki handouts!

Ning for engaging American students in learning about the reform during the 1800s through a facebook style network with key characters from this era.

Today's Meet is an alternative chat room like space where you can quickly setup and invite others to join to collaborate, make comments and suggestions and reflect on meetings presentations etc. As the Today's Meet folks say: Using Twitter at social media conferences has become a great way to do just that. But Twitter isn't appropriate for every situation. * Your audience isn't on Twitter. * You don't want the discussion to be public. * You need to see only relevant updates"