Plurkadian Learning Network

great resources and pictures of fish and oceans.

a great feature to use with Plurk, the best social miniblogging site on the web.

I haven't used this in some time. It's really cool.

"Weed the Garden if you want to keep it looking good. If your links are dead, your article loses some of its meaning. "

a DIY on blog maintenance

"Positive Communication - School, Home, Community"

"teachers were K-6 teachers recognized first at the state level and later at the national level based on an extensive application process evaluated by prominent mathematicians, scientists, mathematics/science educators, and past awardees. "

These data visualizations that relate to earthquakes is quite useful for teachers; it's also very intriguing to know what's happening with your PLN around Earth.

question: basic principles, the essence of education; of teaching and leanring.

"The Google Docs team is celebrating the holidays in big ways this year. With nine launches in the last two weeks - and a gallery full of festive templates - there will be no shortage of cheer!"

try these template when you use Google Docs

"Never a Year Like '09″, the 2009 year in review animated video by JibJab. Check out the JibJab blog for a "Behind the Scenes" look at how the video was made.

"Lock Your Doors" WORDLE from a blog post on ethics in social networks; how to counter spammers, phishers and thieves. -n2teaching 0 minutes ago"

"Many of my Professional Learning Network, including me, have recently experienced troubles with our various interactive social networks, including blog comments and Twitter. There is also the less obvious, yet serious problem: thieves that steal your postings without attributing the work to you."

I'm hoping you will share your experiences with this. What happened? How did you solve the problem? We want to look at innovative solutions.

"there isn't one mention of technology or the sort. Why you ask? Because the reality is that in order to swim, you have to have water." a snapshot of schools today

"Welcome to this week's call for sentences, which will be collected right here in the comments section of this post. For this week only, the comments on my blog will be moderated so the sentences will be kept secret until I collate and publish them this coming Sunday, December (holy moly it's December!) 6th."

If you have never contributed to the "Day in a Sentence" project, start this week;D

a very nice plurk theme for winter

a new educational blog, written by a classroom teacher; will be good to follow

"This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. "

expose' of Dole Food Co, with an emphasis on workers in Nicauragua and DDT poisoning

American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008 very cool graphic; we need to socialize more, IMHO