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Handy things you may know, but may also find one you didn't - good for beginners as well.

Here are Edutopia's most highly rated resources this week. Note that our resources can be rated along three parameters: PRACTICAL Practical materials are ones that you can use to improve your classroom or school right now. These include lesson ideas, tips and strategies for implemeting a new practice, or anything else that is useful RIGHT NOW (as opposed to something that may take 10 months and several committee meetings to implement.) INNOVATIVE These are materials that inspire you with their cutting-edge ideas. Not necessarily something you can implement right away, but if they're Practical too, then you can certainly choose both. PERSUASIVE Persuasive resources are those that make the case for a particular practice or idea. Maybe they helped to change your mind. Or maybe they could change someone else's mind. You could use these materials to persuade your school board, for instance, or your principal to adopt a new approach.

This is a great opportunity for those of you in the AISV groups to engage your students in an authentic challenge to envision learning in the future.

from the developer's pespective

This report focuses on identifying and overcoming the barriers associated with current site blocking practices in schools with regards to Web 2.0 services such as social networking, video sharing, blogs and wikis and popular sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia.

If you are into Twitter, here are tools to make the most of it.

100 excellent twitter feeds for teachers

Tutorials for teachers to learn how to use basic software Web2.0 applications such as: Audacity, PhotoStory, Edublogs, flickr, vokis etc

Here's some handy tips if you decide to set up a blog with a host.

Year 6 students at Shore School in Sydney

Here's another nice use of a blog for students. I met this teacher at the Digital Leadership Conference and know she is keen to collaborate.

David Pogue does a round-up of April Fool's prank sites that could be used to catch students off-guard and create Ah-Ha's about info on the Web.