Useful resource for using social media in schools. Will be helpful in developing policies and processes.

Shares some resources and ideas for starting out with iPads in your class

Diagram that shows types of online relationships from exposure to collaboration.

This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation.

Presentation slides from George Siemens on Connectivism

Very interesting read. Think of it in the context of eudcation, and it presents challenges and opportunities.

" The second Horizon Report for the K-12 sector describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a research project that seeks to 1 identify and describe emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education. This report was produced in partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and was made possible via a grant from HP."

This presents an interesting collection of Apple artefacts and promotional material since 1976.

This could be interesting for an analysis of Apple and computing.

oday, we are listing The Five Best Online Diagramming Tools. These would be very helpful for you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you.

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds with hyperlinks and embed them in your web page

Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources and a New York Times Best-selling author. He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education? (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN's Principal Voices. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts and education. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

Prezi about student portfolios by Dean Shareski

Prezi about Twitter by Dean Shareski

The following tips, tools, and resources can assist any teacher with the basics about social media and ways to share that information with students.

A clever slideshow that could provide a starting point/friendly invitation for teachers with web 2.0

Multimedia timeline tool

Free web 2.0 tool for creating and sharing timelines

When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them. Students from The Elisabeth Morrow School Tech Club contributed machinima created in Quest Atlantis. Marianne Malmstrom (aka Knowclue) worked remotely with the students of Suffern to create machinima of their avatars. Original music, "Harpsicord" was created by a former Suffern Middle School student, Larry Bordowitz. All editing was done by Peggy Sheehy and Marianne Malmstrom.

The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.

These are some powerful videos that could be used to support professional learning.