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ideas for improving communication between teachers and students/parents.

In contrast to the digital footprint you use for your personal learning network, this focus is on the online digital footprint students' use in your science or math classroom. The power of a well designed digital footprint brings the capacity to transform a classroom into an online learning community. Within this community your students use digital tools to create and develop a personal learning network.

Great idea for communicating with parents about your students' blogs.

communicate with parents privately through texting.

Free service that allows you to text reminders to students or parents without giving them your phone number or you taking their's. You can also send the reminders to emails, and send them from this website instead of your phone.

How cool is this? Send video messages as email. How could you use this to communicate with students and parents?

InfoComm India presents AV systems integrators, as well as business owners and IT managers an excellent opportunity to find out how you can leverage on Pro AV communications technology in your corporate or marketing strategies for your business or organizational success.

Wow! If you are an English teacher trying to find people on Twitter to link to for this week's assignment (if you chose to do Twitter), then check this URL out. It's to a huge list of English Teachers on Twitter. Add your name to the list!

Benefits for creating a classroom environment for student blogging begin with establishing a foundation for their success. Why is this important? Integrating blogs transforms a classroom into a learning community where students become self-directed learners and thinkers. This in turn, causes students to use higher order thinking skills as they create and post entries in their blogs, along with commenting on other student's blogs.

Students make connections with many science concepts and communicate their recommendations to officials and organizations regarding the future of artificial reefs.

An algebra project focusing on a theme which interests students is more likely to engage them in the project, so lets take a look at sports. Many students participate in sports at some level, whether as part of a school team or a community team. For the most part these same students do not understand the costs involved to host the sport. Also, they do not understand how much money is needed to ensure a profitable season so the sport can continue from year to year.

cool new approach to engaging online students in discussion around presentations.

Cool tool for showing slides along with your video narration in a way so students can connect with their teacher better.

really interesting approach to teaching students to "curate" their own information.

Utah Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts

Example of a teacher using wikis, blogs, etc. with students. 5 minutes. Google docs. Literacy: she shouldn't have to teach terms, they should look them up. Addresses: do I need to know everything as a teacher? Also accessibility in a rural school. Shows disconnected classrooms collaborating together on reports and a wiki.

Great example of a perfect class website for our assignment! No leftover stuff from Google!

A BYU site for creating learning networks and communities.

an easy tool for marking up screenshots to share with others as a tutorial