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Citizen journalism begins to get mainstream recognition. You never know who the best reporter in the crowd is - -it might just be the person without a press pass! Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Vicki Davis

Wall Street Journal reports how the Bay Area is experiencing some positive vibes from iPhone app development. Wonder if the next wave is the app boom? - Vicki Davis

I would add "LOve your students." Students can see if you care! - Vicki Davis

Steve Hargadon's new whitepaper on social networking in Education (which does include some comments from Julie Lindsay and me.) Full disclosure: Elluminate provides Kim Caise, our Flat Classroom administrator, to us for 20 hours a week and we appreciate it very much. Go to this page to download the whitepaper. - Vicki Davis

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Vicki Davis

A lot of online learning is happening as part of the Connectivism events with George Siemens on November 12, I'm presenting at 7pm EST. - Vicki Davis

Interesting, so this app actually lets you create gift registries using Twitter. Not really sure I understand how this would work. - Vicki Davis

This website helps you create contests that you run on Twitter and also helps you find Twitter "contests." - Vicki Davis

This website helps you organize "tweetups" where people on twitter plan to meet. It also helps you find "tweetups." - Vicki Davis

A more robust twitter survey application than some of the others I've seen. - Vicki Davis

This phenomenal special interest group of ISTE has a great quarterly newsletter which is really the best of innovative learning in all of education. On pages 15-17 there are three pages of an article from two of my students and I about teaching in a virtual world including my "quick tricks for teaching in a virtual world." Print this, share it, and learn - so many great things in this newsletter! - Vicki Davis

This blog shares contests to use and share with your classroom. - Vicki Davis

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Vicki Davis

I agree-environment has a great influence on students as well as their teachers! Commitment gets harder when it has to compete with other factors that humans have little control over... - Vasantha Rayman

Will be speaking in Arkansas on February 17th at their TICAL conference. I'm so excited! This is information if you are in the area so that you may plan to attend. If you do, please plan to say "hi" - it really means a lot to meet the people from cyberworld, I guess it makes it all more "real." - Vicki Davis

Use Clicky's Raps to teach your kids Internet safety. Lisa Durff recommended this site on Twitter. Cool tool. - Vicki Davis

Important article to read about children of all ages creating profiles. I believe this supports our driving need to incorporate instruction and discussion on this topic in schools. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Vicki Davis

Blogged my thoughts on crowdsourcing the ISTE keynote this year. - Vicki Davis

Office gossip (this study on an elementary school and their gossip against a principal) hurts EVERYONE including your school and in this case, test scores declined. Remember that when you gossip, you also hurt yourself and if you didn't already know this, take a read here about office gossip and how to intervene and stop it. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Vicki Davis

This is an example of how I used Diigo to create an annotated link to give feedback on a wiki on Flat Classroom. I love using Diigo for giving wiki feedback because I can mark up the page. I like ot share them through groups that are private with my students and I and the annotated link feature is one of the best ways to do this. - Vicki Davis

Just love the way that Tara does this - wordle, voicethread -- focusing on the content but picking the best tool for that purpose. So cool! - Vicki Davis

If you want to know how one of the pro's makes and publishes podcasts, here is Wesley Fryer's how to - a must read for anyone working in this area of technology. - Vicki Davis

Another Comic location. This is supposed to have animated comics also as part of this. - Vicki Davis

Love how Tara in Bangkok, Thailand used Wordle to introduce books and then mashed up the words in voicethread. What a fascinatingly creative way to use these tools! - Vicki Davis

New comic making web app which also has an i-pod compatible app. This lets you combine drawings, photos, and ready to use artwork to create caricatures. This is great. You can also mash up regular backgrounds with caricatures in the foreground. - Vicki Davis

Write up on some flat classroom topics and what we're doing in my class this year. - Vicki Davis

Fred Haas' reflections are so very real when it comes to ambitious global collaborations. I had to laugh as he said about NetGenEd (last spring's project): "Without question it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experience." The learning curve is TREMENDOUS but once you have it under your belt it is similar to your first year of teaching or boot camp for someone in the military. If you're wondering if this sort of thing is for you, take a read of Fred's very real reflections. Julie nor I NOR ANY global collaborator will ever say it is easy - if it is perhaps you're not having to be as engaged as perhaps you need to be. However, it is most rewarding! Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Vicki Davis

Students do need time in the sandbox as this teacher from Madrid shares on her blog (how they introduced the math manipulatives in first grade.) My response: "Sandboxing is ESSENTIAL. It is low threat, high exploration, high experimentation mode with whatever tool is at hand, and is part of my upcoming book ClickSmart as it relates to software. But as you’ve so eloquently put here, sandboxing is important to do with just about anything!" - Vicki Davis

This is a great blog that is choc full of what can (and should be done) and if you're not following http://www.twitter.com/janeinj... , you should. I just snagged this from Julie Lindsay and wow, I'm impressed with what they (and Jane) are doing. - Vicki Davis

This ebook has over 10,000 views and it is about movie making for kids with just simple pictures. - Vicki Davis

Current State of Mobile Learning - this is a book that talks about mobile learning. (hat tip to Stephen Downes) - it is an important article for those designing learning to read (as well as my Flat Classroom students writing about mobile and ubiquitous computing. - Vicki Davis