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The central repository for all the NECC happenings.

Screencast of how to use Plurk by LizBDavis

McTeach created this "to help us through our twitter withdrawals until such time, if ever, we can overcome our addiction or Twitter gets itself all better!"

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.

An Interactive Online Paragraph Writing Tutorial Paragraph Punch takes users through the steps of writing a basic paragraph.

Writing with Writers units are appropriate for students in grades 9-12. Follow the following links for specific guides for each unit: Biography Writing; Descriptive Writing; Myths; Poetrywith Karla Kuskin; News; Speech; Book Review

Writing Prompts/Journal Topics

Digital citizenship can be described as knowing how to behave appropriately and responsibly with regard to technology use.

A blog about new tools for digital and online learning. One person's journey and perspective.

Tools to help schools students learn about Australia Day. 'The Big Australia Day Book' is linked here.

Many members of JISC Emerge community are active in exploiting the potential of various Web 2.0 technologies and approaches. But what if the Web 2.0 sceptics are right? What if Web 2.0 services aren't sustainable? What if the social aspect of social networking tools are too intrusive? How should we go about developing a sustainable approach to use of Web 2.0?

"In the context of a growing emphasis on eLearning, most commonly facilitated by enterprise-scale Learning Management System and a range of institutionally managed and supported communication and collaboration software tools, and in an environment of increasing emphasis on intellectual property rights management and quality assurance, how do universities (and other educational institutions) respond to the use of free, open-access tools in common use by their students? What are the potential educational uses of such tools? What are the current practices of use of these tools within educational institutions? What are the issues, risks and hidden costs? What are the advantages and benefits?"