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1. Mind Hacks: Why You Should Mouse with the Other Hand - Lifehacker

2. HackCollege » HackCollege: Best of the Year

3. Web 2.0 Workshop - Movies

4. VoiceThread

5. The 2007 Web Globalization Report Card - Top 100

6. OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480 Open Source Applications

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Tutorlinker has a nice google map mashup to search for tutors in your area.

Tutorz searches the web for tutors located in the U.S. across every subject. To begin searching, enter subject of study and your city and state.

Tutor Match acts as a broker and sends the student information to the tutor

An excellent presentation by Will Richardson, who most call one of the founding fathers of edublogging, recorded by Wesley Fryer, at the National Educational Computing Conference entitled, “From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classroom”

Will raises the questions:

How are our schools responding to the new informational and global landscape?

What does it mean to be in the interconnected, transparent, and collobartive world?

This podcast is a must for any professional teacher and concerned parent to understand the cutting edge of education. This episode goes up on my all time top 3 most influential educational podcasts!

To listen to the post click here

To read the show notes click here

Here is a link collection of some useful blog posts about blogging when you got the blogger’s block:

The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging… And When to Use Each One Slideshow

Blogging Tips - 29 Topics and Sentence Starters for Your Next Blog Prompt List

The 5 Types of Blogs That Experts Write

Educators See Also:

Transparency and constructivism, etc. (Or five good reasons to blog the research process)

ResearchLogTemplate shows a great example how one could use the category features to work and organize your research into.

Second Life is a 3D user generated virtual world that has been exploding in the web. I know I am a little late to the grand opening but some friends and colleagues have been asking about Second Life and the impact on education. I am posting links of two excellent podcasts by Steve Hargadon, one of the most famous edubloggers, that give a great intro about what Second Life is and what the educational possibilities are. Both episodes are from Haragdon’s EdtechLive series.

The first podcasts is an interview with Gavin Dudeney of The Consultants-E, who founded the EduNation island in Second Life. He gives a great background and overview of Second Life. To listen to the show podcast and view the show notes click here.

The second podcast is an interview with Sarah Robbins, a PhD. student from Ball State University, who taught a creative writing college course in Second Life which gives you some great ideas about the possibilities of using this virtual world with education. To listen to the podcast and view the show notes click here.

Update: I created our class Blogger’s Contract thanks to all of the help below

This year I will be starting my first elementary class blog. I want to make sure I am starting this up the safe and . I am currently doing some research on Blog Rules and Contracts for students.

Here is a list of some of my research:

*Blog Rules from a Mrs.Bizzel’s 5th grade GT class

*A nice student/teacher Blog Contract from Mark’s Edtechblog

* Colorado teacher Bud Hunt created a student’s blogging guide

*Class Blogmeister, a blogging service, has a blogger’s pledge that you download here

*A Middle School Blog Contract example

I decided to stop torturing myself with weeks of writers block to try to tackle on the difficult task of coming up with my own definitions of some of the new web’s emerging technologies and tools. I just remembered the “define: ” keyword that you can plug into google search which lets google scrap the web of the best definitions. To save you a step click here to see the web’s best definitions of a blog.

See Also:

*Wikpedia’s def of a blog and their great list of blogging terms.

* I Blog, Therefore…