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14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza
“For librarians, and for most other professionals, the game has changed. There is no textbook for new practice, and it is absolutely true that some of us are a little more retooled than others. Nevertheless, there are at least 14 retooled learning strategies that teacher-librarians [...]

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100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School | Online Colleges
“With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and [...]

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Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration
A free resource from Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers.
tags: technology, essentials, education, integration, web2.0

The Bamboo Project Blog: 10 Questions for Your Reflective Practice
“Meredith Levinson has posted a series of 6 excellent questions to identify change agents and innovators during a job interview that she got from Amanda Hite, [...]

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How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia
“When students let their minds drift off, they’re losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.” This works for ALL students, even college students!
tags: engagement, teaching, edutopia, students, strategies, student, learning, Education

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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my [...]

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Eternal Egypt – Home
“Welcome to Eternal Egypt, which brings to light over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization. Eternal Egypt is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. The stories of Eternal Egypt are told using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, [...]

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Five Ways Innovative Educators Can Use SMS Texting to Enhance Their Work by Lisa Nielsen
“For innovative educators and managers, utilizing sms text messaging as part of their professional lives has become increasingly prevalent for a unique set of reasons. Here are five of them.”
tags: web2.0, tools, texting

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links [...]

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Technology and Education – Box of Tricks
“Without further ado, and in alphabetical order, my ten tried and tested internet tools for teachers are:”
tags: web2.0, tools, edmodo, wordle, glogster, animoto, ict, diigo

From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed
“One of the questions posed was how those in academia can best put [...]

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Teaching and technology ~ presentations and resources for educators
“During the last six or so years I have created a number of ‘how-to’ documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to all the [...]

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25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
“Here are 25 ways that teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson plan ideas, book and professional resource recommendations, connect with other professionals, and even host an online book club.”
tags: twitter, teaching, microblogging, teaching_resources, education, web2.0, classroom, tools

Top 20 Teacher Blogs | Scholastic.com
“Below are [...]

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A GeekyMomma’s Blog: A PLN School
I’m feeling very discouraged with not only what I can NOT accomplish with my own students but also because I’m not seeing much potential for a PLN in my school building. I’ve often thought about how great it would be if my online PLN created it’s own district and/or school.
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