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Educator created lessons and activities. Rich with movies, images and podcasts Special collections on a range of topics

Steve Hargadon created this Ning - it's a space where teachers get together and share wisdom, resources and conversation. It currently has over 40,000 educators subscribed. A terrific resource for extending your learning!

Weebly is a site creation tool that allows non-technical people to create their own basic blog and websites for free. Weebly for educators allows you to have your own blog and class site and also lets you manage your students' portfolio sites. There is a pro edition ($40 year) that opens up some other features like selected password protected pages, audio player, increased file size limit, embedded documents and a file uploader for your site. Weebly comes with 10 student site spaces and additional spaces are reasonably priced.

Here is the link to my blog and class site: http://graphcomm.weebly.com

Diigo is the best of the lot in my opinion! Not only are you bookmarking, you're creating a community of people interested in the same subject. Text on a site can be highlighted, annotated and discussed using Diigo. It's a perfect way for students to discuss a site's content and for them to share their web with you. Here is the link for creating a free Diigo user account: https://secure.diigo.com/sign-up

This is another Diigo group you must join - just a terrific source for what's new in education technology tools.

Google Wave is fairly new and it has just come out of beta testing and is now open to everyone with a Google account. The web app is part chat, part email with a whole lot of collaborative possibilities for education. How it is going to be used is still being determined at this point. It's fun to use!

This is the home site for TechBootcamp 2 - these sessions were presented at PACTEC 2010 in Lancaster, PA and dealt with helping educators to build professional learning networks.

Jennifer Dorman's wonderful wiki that is full of Diigo resources. Jennifer works in the Central Bucks school district and is a Pennsylvania Keystone Technology Integrator and a terrific person to follow on Twitter. You can find her @cliotech

Dr. Helen Barrett's site on using Google Apps for ePortfolios. Dr. Barrett offers a good plan of action for implementing an ePortfolio project at your school.