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Classroom – A Tale of Two Cities
I am so excited! This is a wiki that will be built and developed by her two freshman honors English classes. She approached her students with this idea as “A Tale of Two Cities” is a difficult novel to master. Before the end of the day two of [...]

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Safe Chat Universal Messenger with Parental Controls
Launch looks at making one of the main things that kids do online (chat) safer. Its a start but our teens are smart enough to get around the safety.
(tags: parenting internetsafety)

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This post comes on the heels of reading Will’s post, From Access to Information to Access to People… aw, dang…
[side not commentary here.  This is NOT what this post was intended to be about... well it's happened.  Will Richardson is so popular (he has reached 1000 people following him on twitter) he has been [...]

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Texas AG: MySpace safety plan is smoke and mirrors
Texas Attorney General’s response to MySpace developing a taskforce to create age/identity validation technologies to improve internet saftey on the social networking site.

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I recently read a NewsGator Daily article written by Leland Rucker on how the internet has the possibilities of making reading more fun. In the article “Using the Web to Make Reading more Fun” Rucker relates how he had used Google Earth and Google Images to go to all of the places referenced in [...]

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Students 2.0
Student created and driven blog looking to present the student viewpoint in education
(tags: student blogging web2.0 education)

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Doodlekit Helps You Build Your Own Sites For Free
My oy my ohmy check this out… Need a custom site but don’t know how to code html etc? Look into Doodlekit to ease your transition to the web!
(tags: web2)

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Jumptags.com – Beyond Social Bookmarking
Interesting mashup of social bookmarking… might be the end all be all or just a quaint space that no one revisits. I do like the concept, but I did have some issues just getting a single “jump” to take. Additionally, when I tried to import oth my del.
(tags: sociabookmarking [...]

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Social networking from a teens’ perspective (Techlearning blog)
A must read for two reasons. First is student inet safety aspect. Kids are kids and not as tech savy as they think. Second is the useage aspects of a small population of students.
(tags: education Safety socialnetworking technology Freedman)

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Wireless and Well Prepared Webcast Notes
Good thoughts on the webcast of the panel discussion. Technology to do something that we couldn’t do with out it. – When will teachers hae the time – Systematic change Great questions, but few answers or direction… This is the crux of the issue
(tags: Breytag Thornburg conference cullinane)

Wireless & [...]

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