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By Michael Simkins and Randy Schultz Engagement is what it's all about today in education, and technology promises unique ways to engage students in learning. In particular, educational technology enthusiasts tout Web 2.0 as the silver bullet for motivating even recalcitrant students to get with the program.

"Blekko, a new search engine, is trying to provide more relevant search results that are spammer and content-farm free. Described as "Wikipedia meets search", the engine will use human oversight to separate that trusted content from that of spam. They also use the slashtag, /, to limit the results to only those of trusted sites. Blekko has predefined slashtags that you can use, like "/people" for a people search or /blog for a blog search. There are also topics and other categories like /basketball or /android. Since many of these tags are predefined, you might have to create your own slashtag if Blekko does not recognize what you are searching for. As you name your slashtag, you can list keywords and then enter the sites you want Blekko to search. You can share or browse slashtags of other users, too. This engine is heavily based on its users, much like Wikipedia is. Since it is still in beta testing stages, it is very likely that the site will improve sometimes in the near future. This search engine would work well in a classroom. With the safe environments that teachers want to provide with children who are searching the Internet, Blekko would help ensure that they are yielding appropriate results. It would also be a great tool to use with parents at home when browsing the Internet with their children."

The Qatar Academy (QA) located in Doha, Qatar is a private, non-profit, educational institution founded in 1996 by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. The Academy provides internationally accepted, comprehensive, English medium programs plus Arabic and Islamic studies from preschool through to secondary graduation in order to develop independent critical thinkers, lifelong learners, responsible citizens, and for students seeking entrance to elite universities and colleges.

This wiki is setup to provide educators and students with tips, suggestions, and templates for creating education wikis. - Jan. 2009 Tip

Fully-detailed template of an argumentative or persuasive paper will surely help college students get good grades :)

This wiki was created for school library media specialists by Dr. Donna Baumbach and Dr. Judy Lee, University of Central Florida. The purpose is to provide information about some of the new web-based tools (Web 2.0) and how they can be used and are being used by school library media specialists and their students and teachers. Much of the information--including identifying a need for this kind of information--is the result of a survey conducted in 2008 of over 600 school library media specialists about their knowledge and use of web-based tools in library media programs.

Ton of free tutorials - Mac, PC and more. Great resource for students. Can help with papers, spreadsheets, presenatations and a lot more.

Assignments are prepared best when they are given much time and attention, but sometimes time deficit and busy student life require a skill of writing papers very fast.

Studying in college requires writing numerous papers. As a college student, one of the first things you are likely to learn is that writing for college is different from writing for high school.

There's a reason why the Web is called the information superhighway - it's full of seemingly limitless resources for learning and research. And with the advent of Web 2.0, harnessing this information has never been easier. These are some of the best tools for organizing, citing, searching, and more online.

NoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process. *Search intelligently *Assess the quality of results *Record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards *Format your bibliography in MLA or APA style

Looking for some mostly free tools to aid in the learning process? Whether you're a student or just learning on your own, there's a rich variety of Web 2.0 applications that you can use in your quest for knowledge, many of which supplement our list of productivity applications quite nicely. Here are 25 of them.

Great Flash-based brochure and flyer generator. Much more simple than Publisher for younger students.