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The holiday season is a time for giving. We exchange gifts with our friends. We contribute to our favorite charities. We give money directly to poor people on the street. How can you make the most impact per dollar with your giving for this holiday season?

I quite like this article on assessing learning without tests - gives some good alternatives. 

As the title suggests, this blog entry gives three registration-free tools for collaboration with some features and benefits for each tool. Has anyone used any of these before?

This is a wonderful writing tool and useful for teachers as a plagiarism checker. Its free, give it a try.

I was just wondering which google apps people are making use of in their classrooms or for professional/personal use. A couple of questions I am thinking about at the moment are: 1. Should we be giving students experience with public access tools such as these so that they can take the skills they learn with them rather than the skills they learn specific to Myclasses/myinternet? 2. With myclasses etc perhaps being phased out/modified/replaced at some stage is this a viable alternative that could be used instead?

A blog entry about a great new tool for concise digital story telling using google (search/maps/images/books etc). Very easy to do, this blog entry gives some ideas on how to use it with your class.

"CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. Simple sharing * Anything you paint will show up for all other users in the room in real time. * One click to save a sketch as an image for embedding on forums, blogs, etc. Zero hassle * Runs in all common browsers without plugins or installation. * Free and without registration. Now with Google Maps support! * Use google maps as the background for your sketches to show directions or share trips."

a blog post explaining a new feature within the Google search engine - the ability to filter results by reading level! This post defines how to do this and gives lots of examples.

An excellent presentation on wikis & writing and how they can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. Also shares some meaningful stats regarding language development, explains and gives examples on web 1.0 & 2.0 tools and social media.

Some great uses for wallwisher in the classroom - give it a go! 

Some fantastic tips on what to blog about, also touches on classroom management of student blogs (re: posting, comments etc) in the comments section...some schools starting as early as year 1 with services such as kidblog

Its a nice post with some good ideas about blogging with kids. Nice find Sam.

There are some great ideas on this to give meaning to blogging for students. They could be transferred to wikis too.