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Anil Dash Delivers an Insightful Keynote and Announces SixApart Plugins for WordPress

Anil Dash, co-founder of SixApart, delivered a very captivating keynote at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic concerning social media, why we blog, and connecting across the social web. I found the keynote very refreshing; it reminded me of why I spend so many hours connecting with educational technology minded people across the globe via blogs, twitter, and other [...]

Archiving Twitter Nuggets

Twitter can provide an amazing quantity of great ideas and links on a daily basis, if you follow people and organizations who/which both:

Share your interests.
Use Twitter to share links.

With so many outstanding ideas and links being shared daily, it is important to consider how these resources can be efficiently saved for future use.
To date, my [...]

Join ISTE on Facebook

As Maya Prabhu noted in her October 2008 article for eSchoolnews, “Schools grapple with teachers’ Facebook use,” increasing numbers of educators are creating accounts on and utilizing social networking websites like Facebook. While the issues and questions surrounding teacher to student interactions in these online environments may be somewhat grey and hazy, there are plenty [...]