Top 10 Web 2.0 tools for Young Learners

The following link provides you with the top 10 web 2.0 tool for learners. It's a year old but its interesting to see where your web 2.0 tool of your choice fall on the list.

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2009/02/02/Top-10-Web-20-Tools-for-Young-Learners.aspx?Page=1

EdTech Tips

Check-out the following link...it has over 40 EdTech tips to help teachers make valuable use of the technology in their classrooms.  Its great!

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/tech_tips.shtml

10 Most Dangerous things Users do Online

The following link provides very interesting and helpful information regarding the end-users.  This information may be useful in your campus to help end-users keep their classroom computer or laptop safe from viruses and other dangers that lurk on-line.

http://www.schoolcio.com/ShowArticle/932

Parents as Partners

This article hits the nail right on the head regarding parent involvement in students' success.   The article points out that many students are now being raised by grandparents, uncles and other family member who fail to make contact with teachers and the community.  This alone will have a very strong emotional impact on the success of the students education and future endeavors.

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748795

Technology Buzz Words

Check out this link that expresses a new level of digital status, a digital intermediate, a new word for me!
http://www.marketing-jive.com/2009/06/digital-natives-vs-digital-immigrants.html

Making a Difference

I found this video while researching Web 2.0 tool and I found that it made a very interesting point about teachers who basically refuse to change their teaching ways and after teaching for so long, many just go to work on automatic mode day after day not looking forward to much. As future MTT's what would you do to change the minds of teachers who have no vision on the impact of todays educational technology in your campus?