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What it is: Me On the Web is a new tool from Google.  Announced just today, Me On the Web is part of the Google Dashboard that allows you to set up custom Google Alerts for your name in news articles.  This was always possible with Google Alerts but now those alerts are coupled with tips and resources for helping students manage their online identities.  Now everything can be tracked from one central location instead of scattered around in different places.  Me On the Web is easy to set up, just visit your Google Dashboard to get started. How to integrate Me on the Web into the classroom: There was a day when you could get away with not knowing and following your digital identity, that day is no more.  We all carry digital footprints, and now more than ever it is vital for us (and our students) to know how to manage those digital footprints.  Teaching students about their digital identity is the first step, Google's Me on the Web takes that a step further by helping students manage their online identities through Google Alerts and helpful tips.  Students must have an account with Google to fully utilize the Me on the Web features.  After students have their account set up, they can create a set of Google Alerts related to them.  This could be their name, email address, a sports team that they play on, the name of the school they attend, etc.  Students will quickly see just how big a memory the Internet has and get a first hand look at their digital footprint and learn some strategies to take care of it.

Management and pedagogy of iPads in schools

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.

Steps to creating a class blog. From initial set up to managing and monitoring and includes aspects of assessment.

Another way to aggregate feeds, manage online learning from news, blogs and magazines

great article on managing learning in a 1:1 classroom.

Classroom review games and class management tools

An interesting article about a small k12 school in Scotland who went from a 24 mac school, to a 1:1 iPad school. Shares some information about how they are managing the iPads, their approach to using them and some of the school's thoughts on their use. Worth a read. 

Risk Management Tips for Teachers Using YouTube. 

This video shares a method on how to most effectively sort student's voice recordings from iPod Touches, iPhones or iPads..

A blog entry that each school should read before handing over iPod Touches to students/teachers. has the Do's & Don'ts of iPod touches in the classroom, very comprehensive list...

Great collection of video tutorials related to SMART Notebook/SMARTBoards - Tutorials are windows-based, but skills taught are easily transferable to the mac. 

Tikatok is an online creative community whose mission is to turn kids into published authors. Students can use their own illustrations and publish their book, even order real paperback and hardcover books.

An email received from Tikatok regarding postage to Australia. Not bad makes book about $20-$25 dollars Hi Kristy, Thanks for the email. Postage should be about $16-25 I believe. Thanks, Katie __________________ Katie Cowan Porro Senior Account Manager, Education Market Tikatok, LLC (p) 774-218-8472 (f) 774-961-3539 katie@tikatok.com www.tikatok.com

Great teaching tools