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* Effortlessly create and manage students blogs * Packed with useful features and customizable themes * Ready made for podcasting, videos, photos and more * Step by step support with our helpful video tutorials

Winner of this year's Edublog Award for best informational blog, this has OOODLES of info, tricks, tips, resources, etc for using smartboards in the classroom.

Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students, and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before. Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs. Over 5,000 of them are about education. It is likely that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more education-related blogs on the Web. (UPDATE: There are over 30,000 blogs hosted at edublogs.org alone. Thanks James Farmer!) Here is a list of our staff's 100 favorites.

iLearn technology is an edublog dedicated to giving teachers practical tips for integrating technology into the classroom. All of the resources are free to use and simple to implement. If you know of a great classroom technology resource, please let me know about it on my contact page! Written by: k-5 technology teacher Kelly Tenkely

The Teacher Challenge is made up of free 30 day professional development challenges where participants are stepped through weekly tasks that increase their skills while working together as part of a global community. The Challenge is open to anyone who wants to increase their skills - blogs will be used for reflecting your progress while learning and connecting with each other. We've observed success of any use of online technology is strongly related to the teacher's abilities. The greater we support and increase a teacher's skills, the better they are able to support their students use of web 2.0 technologies.

It has never been easier to connect classrooms around the world, and lots of teachers are doing it in different ways. In this course we will explore how you can turn a connection into a global learning experience for your students. We will look at ways to make this experience authentic and real, and discuss what it takes to collaborate with other classes in other countries. Ultimately our contention is that authentic global collaboration has less to do with the tools and more to do with approaches to teaching and learning.

I figured it was appropriate to make number 800 one that is likely to be the most popular post that I've published since I've begun this blog - the annual one highlighting The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education.

Sway is a new online presentation platform. Check out this blog post to learn more about Sway and how students have used it to apply Newton's Laws of Motion to sports.

"Summer has officially started for many of you! I know that you will probably be relaxing for the first few days, but eventually you may feel the need to be inspired and motivated for the upcoming school year! Social media provides us with incredible opportunities to choose the way we want to develop professionally. You can choose the topic, the medium, and who you want to learn from. You can choose the way you like to learn, because social media provides us with several multimedia experiences, such as webinars, LMS, live video, and more. The experience is usually dynamic and motivating because you are learning with others around the world! Additionally, you will be developing your Personal/ Passionate Learning Network (PLN)."

n November 2007 I began the first of a series of Google presentations gathering together some ideas about the uses of different tools for the classroom. I thought that the easy manner of sharing Google Docs was ideal to collate thoughts, tips and suggestions from teachers and educators all over the world.

A great blog full of ideas for using your Smartboard in class.

This blog will be used to to disseminate ideas/links/tips for use with/by students in high school classrooms. Some posts are written by me, while other posts will be automatically fed in from the Classrooms for the Future coaches group on Diigo.

Where and how to find images online. Nice list of sites and reasons why you should use them and not Google Image search

This page has been set up so you can check out different types of class blogs to get ideas for your own class blog. You could also use this list to make connections with classes in other countr

A great list of resources, every single day!

"In order to make it on this list, the criteria was pretty simple - it offers and easily navigable collection of Web 2.0 tools for education in a way accessible to non-tech-savvy teachers. Here are my picks for The Best Collections Of Web 2.0 Tools For Education:" -- Both the eToolBox and Perk Up Your Projects are on there! :)

"I was pretty careful about how I titled this latest "The Best…" list. These sites are good to "introduce" environmental issues in the classroom, but generally don't provide information on systemic, political, and corporate issues related to environmental damage."

Here are my picks for The Best Online Sources For Images