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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.

This is Christine DiPaulo's career portfolio site created using Google sites. A good sample of a professional career.

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.

This is a student model site used at CAT Pickering for helping our students see what a base portfolio site should look like. The components represent a student's work over a four year time span.

Charlot Barker's career portfolio. Charlot is the director of IT at the Chester County Intermediate Unit.

LiveBinders allows you to present a number of pages in one browser window. Easy interface allows you to create subject binders that you can share by making public. Again, multiple site links given with one URL. Linking sites to your binder with the toolbar applet that works with Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. I created a Live Binder for the PACTEC TechBootCamp group here: http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=18125

start.io is a basic bookmarking site - allows the user to share a group of sites quickly with one short URL. An applet exists for Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. My start.io page can be found at http://start.io/altucker

Great site listing over 100 sources for using Twitter in the classroom.