Comments on: Social Media Resources for Educators

By: compassioninpolitics

compassioninpolitics — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:54:56 +0000

In terms of social networking for teachers and educators interested in social media in the classroom there is a great community at Classroom 2.0, which I believe was even featured on the Ning blog:

http://www.classroom20.com/

The digital generation project at Edutopia is an interesting introduction to the overall ecosystem of innovative learning technologies (PBS has a special on this topic as well):

http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-over...

Tools like creating information dashboards with Netvibes or iGoogle as well as open source tools like Moodle are growing in popularity.

By: Aaron Uhrmacher

Aaron Uhrmacher — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:10:21 +0000

These are great additions. Thanks, LS!

By: leesean hepnova

leesean hepnova — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:38:07 +0000

Hi Aaron,
Let me also suggest OpenEd, a portal for open educational resources (OER).
http://opened.creativecommons.org/

OER are learning and teaching materials for teachers, learner and researchers that are freely available online with minimal copyright restrictions, which encourages sharing and adaptation. Full disclosure: this is what I'm working on for my summer internship.

OpenEd is built on a Wiki, so anybody can contribute links, ideas, or resources.
http://opened.creativecommons.org/