Twitterteachers

"Teachers are getting lesson plan ideas from far-flung colleagues via Twitter. Skype conversations are being hosted in classrooms. And students are being introduced to social media and being schooled on how it can benefit them professionally."

Sound advice!

"Twitter Education Virtual Conference"

Read comments - some disputes on method & findings

The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history, with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages other than English, an official said yesterday. That change could potentially open up the Web to more people around the world as addresses could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic, in which Russian is written. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann - the non-profit group that oversees domain names, or website addresses - is holding a meeting this week in Seoul.

Maggie, I would suggest http://www.edmodo.com/ which is private - also just spotted https://www.yammer.com/ but seems more business-like.

Some teachers are experimenting with the popular microblogging tool as an effective way of distributing assignments and engaging students in content and collaborative lessons.

Really an impressive list....time to play.......eeash