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Many of you will be pleased to know that the nominations are now open for the 2010 Edublogs awards.

"The Edublog Awards is a community based incentive started in 2004 that aims to: Promote and demonstrate the educational values of social media. Create a fabulous resource for educators to use for ideas on how social media is used in different contexts, with a range of different learners. Introduce us to new sites that we might not have found if not for the awards process."

"...how can such a brief medium have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?" "This guide answers these questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities."

Robin Good - Communication Designer and New Media Explorer - has compiled this great mind map of the top collaboration tools for 2011 that he updates ... weekly! Check out the other mind maps he's created from the list on the right-hand side.

"14 Ways K-12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza"

A Shakespeare play on Facebook? Yes! It's true! Beginning on April 26 at 4:00 p.m., you can be a part of Shakespeare's classic comedy as we present it in real time over three days. Connect with the characters on this page to see the play happen LIVE in your own Facebook news feed.* Click the "Like Us!" image to the right and, on the next page, click the "like" buttons next to the character images to be a part of the upcoming performance! Make sure to "like" them all to get the full theater-going experience.

Students quoted as using this to create flashcards to review on phone in University of Washington report:   http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/college-students-limit-technology-use-during-crunch-time