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westwood » Will's eFoilo This is a very interesting way that the student chose to link his Google doc and quite inventive. He created an HTML page and embedded it in the page instead of making the Google Doc public. What a great way to do this. tags: education , Google westwood » Victoria's eFolio Another excellent efolio project from my student -- take a look at the Doodle For Google at the bottom and how she related the opportunity to speaking out for the crisis in Darfur. This is amazing work! tags: education , bestpractices , techintegrator , technology , professionaldevelopment Cyber Security - Digi Teen Seeing my students blog like this one on cyber security makes me realize that effective online communication and writing is important. I'm proud of my student bloggers and glad that we've made time to blog this year! tags: blogging , education , bestpractices , cybersafety , blog , ad4dcss NASCAR News I really am enjoying this student's blog about NASCAR -- ...

ABC News: Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key? Annotated tags: coolcatteacher , digitalcitizenship , edu_trends , education This is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points. Quotes from the Article: Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, has long studied "the Net generation," the first to have grown up with the Internet, not to mention cellphones. In Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation (Palgrave Macmillan), he helps parents understand social networks. His advice: Talk to your kids, learn the technology and don't panic. USA TODAY's Janet Kornblum spoke with the author. They're very self-motivated. This world encourages us to multitask. I think it encourages kids to be much less patient. More terse. This generation spends time at home — connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the preteen and t...

I'm testing the feature that lets me post annotations and links from diigo to here. I know that many of you are getting sick of hearing of this little tool and if you're a beginner, perhaps you should wait, however, for me, I'm finding it useful. Forgive me as I learn to work through the kinks here. It may be bumpy at first, but this gives me a more robust way to share links -- many of you have e-mailed me that you like my link goodness best! This way it can become part of my blog... I'm still not sure I want it here, and yet there are STILL people who go to the site directly and don't understand RSS. FeedFlare™ Catalog tags: blogging , twitter These are the cool feedflares that you can add in addition to those already used in Feedflare -- for bloggers using Feedburner to RSS things. There is a new one called twit this. Streamline It Part I: Diigo or Bust : Metanoia tags: diigo , edu_newapp , techintegrator Ryan Bretag says, "Okay, here it is. I’m dumping ...