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Video Tutorials for some popular Web 2.0 sites: Animoto, Google Docs, Voicethread etc.

Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning     The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed.

In order to make this list, a site had to be: * accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users. * free-of-charge. * appropriate for classroom use. * completely browser-based with no download required.

"The Tenth Best Web 2.0 Tool for Early Learning!"

For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.

Go beyond enhancing an idea or a lesson-transform your students' learning with a tool called ThingLink. ThingLink engages your students and drives curiosity and discovery-and it's free. It's an image platform that converts an image into an interactive experience by letting you connect music, video, text, images, shops, and more from around the web.

Great tips for teachers: twitter, hashtags, Edmodo, Evernote, etc. all explained.

The American Press Institute is making a number of recommendations to newspapers to create successful new models, and their number one suggestion is: BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow industry experts on Twitter. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. This is extremely valuable market research. Learn all you can.