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Interesting post about Facebook and the whole sociology surrounding it.

An argument for students and teachers to be "facebook friends" and why use twitter to check on people

Just learned of this collaborative photo and video site. The site encourages collaboratively building a video and allows for adding music and special effects. It is a free stie. Videos can be shared through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and also emailed. 

"Facebook" for the classroom

This is a great resource guide for using the variety of tools pertinent to Google suite. Download the guide for reference. It is up-to-date for the Google suite as of 2012. This guide is on the blog Free Tech 4 Teachers, a fantastic blog with lots of updates relevant to teaching. 

A tool for downloading videos to use in the classroom. If YouTube is blocked,this site can help with downloading the video and having a copy to play in school.

You can check out this search engine and see what you think. I saw it demonstrated at EdCamp Boston. 

A simple site for building wikis. See Byrne's review on Free Technology for Teachers for a rview.

This is a complete e-book with information on skills teachers and students need for the 21st Century.