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"A great way to quickly share personal video comments with others about virtually any web page"

"Over the past few years I have read a fair collection of winners, a fair collection of losers and far too many mediocre education technology books. The aim here is to share the ones that have been so highly recommended they are considered must reads. Each of these has been a recommendation from someone within my PLN and so comes from very good authority and credibility. And of course, to continue learning from this PLN please do add your own suggestions and must-reads in the comments below."

"Customizing your teaching to suit each child makes eminent sense. Kids are different, they learn differently, so we should teach them differently, right? But when you're staring out at 20 or 30 students as individual as snowflakes, you may find yourself asking that ever-daunting question: "How?" The short answer is: one step at a time. Teachers at Forest Lake Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina, have made it their mission for the past decade to differentiate instruction for their diverse students. They started small, and they've grown and honed their strategies each year. Here are their tips -- combined with some advice from Edutopia bloggers and members of the Edutopia community -- on how you can get started. And please use the comments field below to ask questions and add your own suggestions! "

"We went through the whole lot of free apps available for iPad (so you don't have to) and selected the best 46 apps that are worth checking out. So have a look and please comment if you know any more that we miss in the list. "

"A.nnotate is an online annotation, collaboration and indexing system for documents and images, supporting PDF and MS Office formats. Instead of emailing different versions of a document back and forth you can now all comment on a single read-only copy online. Unlike online word processors, the document is displayed in high quality with fonts and layout just like the printed version. It is easy to use and runs in all common web browsers, with no software or plugins to install. "

Kids Tube is a video sharing hosting and sharing site designed for hosting content produced by kids and content about kids. Kids Tube monitors all submissions and monitors comments left on videos. A great alternative to YouTube for schools and young kids.

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Join ten students and teachers as they trek to Washington DC for the Inauguration. Participate in the event by reading and commenting on the blog they will be updating throughout the event.

Producteev is a new generation Task Management web application that drastically simplifies the way you work with your team. Connect with your colleagues, Follow their activity status and news feed in real time, Manage your Projects in a fully customizable drag-and-drop dashboard, Collaborate with your team thanks to intuitive social features, Share and Comment on files.

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Welcome to our "colossal ongoing discussion about everything." We invite you to join or log in to our site and to become a member of a growing community of K-12 students and teachers who are working together to nurture student-to-student conversations, collaborations, and civic actions that result from publishing and commenting on each others discussion posts, images, podcasts, bookmarks, and videos and VoiceThreads. Oh, and don't forget to check out what's on our minds, right now. Find out What's Up?

Stop copying and pasting... Start making your notes online. * Annotate the web With WebNotes you can highlight text and stick notes to web pages. Click for live annotation demo *Organize your notes - All highlights and notes are stored in folders within your WebNotes account. Click for screencast * Share your comments - Pages you annotate can be shared through email or online links. Click to view shared annotated page

Create a "track" to guide users through many websites, with your own comments.

Use trails to guide others to what's important on the web. Place comments on web pages. Link them together to form a trail. Guide others to what you already know.

haring and reviewing documents and presentations with others can be quite a pain. crocodoc was built to change that, alleviating the need to email attachments back and forth, print and pass around hard copies, or install expensive collaboration software. crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions. All files are stored securely on our servers, and can be password protected and encrypted for maximum security.

Welcome to TweenTribune.com, a daily news site for tweens. Each day we post links to the day's most compelling news from a tweens perspective. Stories chosen for TweenTribune are selected by tweens working closely with professional journalists. Tweens can submit links to stories they'd like to share, submit their own stories and photos, and comment on the stories they read.

True Project Based Learning is a process that puts the student at the center of their learning. In this post I wish to share with you some of the top sites I found on the internet that promote true PBL. Since my research I have bookmarked a few more and will be sharing those in a later post. Please share this post with others and as you find other outstanding sites on the internet that refer to PBL, please share with me. Your comments are always appreciated!