pagetweet.com - spread your message!

I am seriously exploring Twitter, trying to figure out if it is as valuable as so many people feel it is. It has been a couple of weeks and I am only now getting a handle on how this might work for a teacher. I have looked at some apps to keep up with tweets, read a number of articles on how to best use Twitter and how to build a community (will provide links in the links blog). I am beginning to see where it might be useful, I am not sold but not seeing it as a totally dumb thing now. (yes I did in the beginning!) If you are interested there are some good places to find the info you need. I would recommend you explore these options and some of the others I posted in the Technology Links blog, read what people have to say, develop a group to follow and then give it a month or two. It is taking awhile for me to really get into it but it actually could prove to be useful.

• pagetweet.com - spread your message!

  Love this, lets you shorten URL for twitter.

  tags: twitter, URL

the nest site is a list of people to follow, you can find many familiar names here. I started here and then started following others as I found them.

• Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter

  tags: twitter, education, professsionals, web2.0, janehart

This next article is at the crux of the matter, we are using these tools to learn more, and develop skills.

• Creating a Personal Learning Network with Web 2.0 Tools ‎(Building a PLN)‎

  • tags: pln, Web2.0, pd, personal learning network, professional development

• twitter4teachers / Technology Coordinators and Specialists

  tags: twitter, friends

• Thirteen Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom - Google Docs

  tags: twitter, education, classroom, ideas, socialnetworking, classroom2.0, web2.0

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Educational Blogs You Should Be Investigating | Making Teachers Nerdy

• Educational Blogs You Should Be Investigating | Making Teachers Nerdy

  tags: education, blog, teaching, blogging, edublogs, teachers

Every teacher should have a few blogs they are following, here is a list of good ones.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Great Links for Educators

I have spent several years book marking sites using various tools. I started with Backflip, used that for quite awhile, then changed to Delicious and then to Diigo which I am currently using. I loved each one of them and still do. I have tried a few others also but none I liked as much as these three. However, there is so much out there and I am saving so many sites that sometimes I find something I really think is great and I lose it. Yes I have lists and I am trying to tag carefully but I still cannot always find what I want and I often forget about something really great so don't even know to go looking for it. I started sending some links to my blog when I really wanted to remember them but realized that was not quite what I wanted, now I have a blog all set up just for links. Now this may get to be a problem too, there are so many good resources and tools out there on the Wild Wild Web. But it is a small way to deal with a big problem! Any way that said here is a link to that blog.


Great Links for Technology Educators

PDFVue Beta : Edit, Annotate, and Share PDFs for Free

• PDFVue Beta : Edit, Annotate, and Share PDFs for Free

  tags: pdf, tools, editor

Edit PDF files!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Magnetic Poetry

• Magnetic Poetry

  tags: poetry, magnetic, literacy, language arts

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

This is a fun way for kids to write, there are  a lot of options here to allow kids to write a variety of poems and stories.

Okay, this is really dumb but I had a website that I did not want to get lost in the wealth of websites I post on Diigo every day. So I was looking for a way to mark it especially so I could find it quickly. Low and behold I discover (never looked before) that I could post it to my blog as I book marked it in Diigo. I feel like an idiot, I am supposed to be the really tech literate one! Anyway I have posted two here. I think I will start a new blog for these sites so it doesn't get mixed up here but it was very cool. I now have two posts of these websites that I really want to keep in mind! Will wonders never cease here on the web. I keep trying to stay up only to find there are so many sites I have never seen and certainly don't have time to visit. It is amazing.

Mrs. Tenkely’s Computer Class

• Mrs. Tenkely’s Computer Class

  tags: resources, technology, education, elementary

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Wonderful computer resources for elementary students in all curricular areas.