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I love how this article is framed. "Still, is this shift in pedagogy and policy worth the effort? Will sound, traditional writing instruction still suffice, or do we need to reframe the way we teach students to write due to the global, online spaces they will frequent more in their lives? In an August 2009 Wired article, Andrea Lunsford, professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, offered her own research to suggest that students are writing in environments far removed from those from even a generation ago. "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. According to her five-year study of student writing, technology is pushing writing literacy in new directions that educators must begin to make sense of. "

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Two simultaneous disasters at opposite ends of Indonesia have killed nearly 500 people last week. The tsunami generated by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake off Sumatra claimed the most lives, but the volcano Mount Merapi appears determined to maintain that HAARP OSA share of souls. Once again, broke a little violent today November 5, 2010.

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Welcome to the social network for those using the Ning social networking platform in education. You might also consider joining our sister site, Classroom 2.0, for general discussions of Web 2.0 in the classroom.

Free teaching resource - Generate huge spelling lists by selecting patterns and entering phonemes. This searches through 57000 words to find those that match. Can produce flashcards from the lists you make.

Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Windows only.

Panwapa, created by the educational experts behind Sesame Street, is a multimedia, global initiative that is designed to inspire and empower a new generation of children, ages four to seven, to be responsible global citizens. Researchbased materials come in a range of media platforms, including online, video, and print.

K-3D is a 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system featuring a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed to generate motion-picture-quality animation.

iStockphoto is the internet's original member-generated image and design community. Find your inspiration on the world's leading royalty-free stock destination.

What is Fish? Fish4Info is a next generation library portal that seeks to make the library catalog a socially engaging destination by integrating web 2.0 technology with the catalog. From book reviews, to forums, comments and tags; fish4info makes the library website an interactive social community.

convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash for free! Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects. Generated Flash slideshows will look as if they have always been a Flash movie.

animated scrolling typewriter text generator. Write some text and click Create Screed to make your own animated text.

A web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos. This is their education section.

Tired of assigning the same old boring PowerPoint presentations again and again? Want to challenge your students a bit more than the traditional tri-fold or poster project? Come learn a whole host of new tools to spice up your students' projects and your lessons. Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video, and the web resources that will serve as "containers" for the different elements.

Free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.

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Rivers just keep flowing whilst thousands of generations come and go. There is something both peaceful and at the same time haunting about sitting on the banks of a river like the Thames and thinking about all that has happened at this spot over a million years.