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@klbeasley @jplaman Have you tried this with classes yet? Looks a good way to involve students in discussion http://t.co/1Hln1jQl GroupTweet enables 2 to 100,000+ contributors to tweet from the same account. No longer is the burden of content creation on one person's shoulders. Contributors' names can be hidden or displayed at the beginning or end of each Tweet. Whether you have a small group powering a company account or thousands of people powering a group account, you can leverage the power of the crowd with GroupTweet!

This looks like a viable way to broadcast to a common twitter account both from people who have Twitter already and those who do not. Looks viable for U13s too!

We want to ensure student safety as well as monitor and filter their online behavior. As Web 2.0 becomes more popular and educational technology online sites replace desktop software, this has become more of an issue. A lot of subscription-based or ed tech sites require a student email address to create an account which can become a BIG issue when dealing with CIPA compliance, because a majority of students to not have a school email account. Here are 20 Web 2.0 sites that do not require a student email address to create an account. This list is in alphabetical order. 

This past week, my first-born became legal. Not to drive, vote or drink, though; that comes later. My son turned 13 years old, making him eligible under terms of service to have his own social media account. That isn't to say he hasn't been on those sites for years, though. His social media cred is older than our daughter, who turns four in a couple months. He has had moments where he used Facebook too much, only to self-censor like a boss when he found it was cutting into his reading time. These days, his activity is largely limited to liking Doctor Who content on my geeky Pinterest board and collaborating with peers on Google (despite his original account there being deleted due to age restrictions). He has never had much interest in tweeting, but he got a video camera yesterday that may signal the beginning of a new vlog.

What to do if your Twitter account has been hacked.

"Be seen, heard, and read With CaptionTube you can create captions for your YouTube videos. It's easy to use and it's free. Offer viewers a transcript to read. Improve discoverability and searching for sales and training videos. Create and edit closed captions in multiple languages. Export captions and upload them to your YouTube account. Simple and secure sign in using your Google account."

Take photos with your iPod or iPhone -- and upload to your Dropbox account.  If you then have your Dropbox account to automatically set to sync with your laptop, then in the classroom you can take photos of kids' work you want to highlight to the whole class and quickly have it ready to be displayed on your IWB/projector screen (assuming your laptop is plugged into your projector/IWB).

". a free and simple online service for people who manage their time using a Google Calendar. Log in using your Google account, approve our access to your calendar and you immediately get a simple dedicated web page that lets your customers/students/colleagues see when you are free. Then, with just a couple of clicks, they can book you. Add your logo at the top of the page, and a few words of instruction, and you have a simple booking web-presence in a few minutes. Alternatively, grab the emebed code to include the calendar on your blog or website." NB: must be turned on by the administrator for GAPPS accounts

Controversial article about social networking in general, and facebook specifically

check out "69. @intrepidteacher Teacher, learner, dad, bleeding heart, music and film addict. I want to share as much as I can with as many people as I can as often as I can. Singapore · http://www.jabizraisdana.com/"

multiple contributors, one twitter account

list of resources at the National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore re Carol Dweck and the concept of "mindset" - an EBOOK and an AUDIO book are both available to Digital Library Users (sign up for a free account if you have a green FIN card).

LearnZillion is a great Maths website that has video lessons for pretty much anything you might want to teach.  You can use them to get ideas for your lessons or you can show them to your class as well. You can sign in using your school GApps account.

some great widgets for blogger, including a widget to display a class twitter account

Summary via The Scout Report (May 2012): "Mocku.ps is a tool created to help designers share their mockups quickly via the Internet. Visitors don't have to sign up to create an account, and they can get started by just uploading their images to the desktop. After this, they can annotate their mockup, and share the URL with other interested parties. First-time users can look at the example offered here and also look over the FAQ area. This version is compatible with all operating systems. [KMG]"

I was very happy to discover a research report on the potential of using Facebook as a learning management system. Facebook popularity and the ease with which most teachers and learners can create an account these days was, after all, one of the reasons our aPLaNet project team decided to include Facebook as one of the three Social Networks which may help teacher with their professional development easily and with complete autonomy.

TimeToast allows a user (sign-up required) to create interactive timelines that can be viewed in a Flash environment or a text-based list.  Students can enter text, images and links for any event on the timeline and there is a function to create a span of time for longer events.  Once the timeline is published, it can be shared.  For younger students, it might be good to have a classroom account.

Make a fake facebook account for historical figures etc. Hopefully this will bookmark the actual page!

"The GPI, produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, is the world's leading measure of global peacefulness. It gauges ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society, and militarisation in 153 countries by taking into account 23 separate indicators."