TEACHERS+CONNECT

|| * Collaborative Environment
 * =**Service**= || =**Benefits**= || =**Examples**= ||
 * ===**__Wikis__**===
 * Easy to Use
 * Loads of Embeddable Functions


 * 1) Visual Blooms
 * 2) Voicethread wiki (and [|why you need a PLN] )
 * 3) [|Explaining Wikis] (with JogThe Web.com)
 * 4) Educon

Ours: Mike's: [] Paula's: http://paulawhite.wikispaces.com Becky's: http://acpsipod.wikispaces.com || * [|Twitter4Teachers]
 * [|NetGenEd Project] (Just Launched!)
 * Thinking About Words Through Images
 * [|Projects By Jen]
 * USA Fun Facts
 * Dr. Seuss wiki
 * [|Skype an Author] (Also, [|Skype For Educators]) ||
 * ===**__Nings__**===

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|| * Facebook-like interface
 * Lots of features such as blogs, forums, and notes for multiple opportunities to interact.
 * Embeddable Functions
 * Chat Enabled for further collaboration/conversation
 * [|Pearson sponsors free Teacher Nings]

|| * Good for response discussion
 * 1) [|Educators PLN]
 * 2) [|Classroom 2.0]
 * 3) [|Curriculum 21] || * [|The English Companion]
 * [|Grown Up Digital] / NetGenEd Project
 * [|ISTE10] ||
 * ===**__Blogs__**===
 * Online journaling
 * Embeddable Functions
 * Sharing and collaborating around best practices
 * Enhancing each other's professional practice


 * 1) [|@mwacker's Posterous]
 * 2) [|Co Op Catalyst] (Just Lauched!)
 * 3) [|Weblogg-ed]

Ours: [|Digigogy] [|Calculus of the Classroom] [|Reflections of the TZSTeacher] || * [|The Tempered Radical]
 * [|SpeEd Change]
 * [|Angela Maiers Educational Services]
 * [|2¢ Worth]
 * [|Reflection on Practice]
 * [|The Power of Educational Technology]
 * [|Clif's Notes]
 * [|Superintendent's Blog]
 * [|Superintendent's Viewpoint Posts]
 * [|Cliotech Blog]
 * __[|WNY Education Associates Blog]__
 * __[|Cool Cat Teacher Blog]__ ||
 * ===**__Collaborative Writing Spaces__**=== || * Equal voices
 * Asynchronous-can happen when time
 * Learning from each other
 * Ease of access
 * Modeling for non-educators
 * Power of re-visioning


 * 1) [|ACPS Tech Plan] || Google Docs
 * [|Collaborative Writing]
 * [|Planning Presentations]

Based on Etherpad: > Twitter || * Save bookmarks and favorites online
 * [|TypeWith.me]
 * [|TitanPad]
 * [|Primary Pad]
 * [|Becky]
 * [|MIke]
 * [|Paula]
 * #edchat ||
 * ===**__Social Bookmarking__**===
 * Easily share bookmarks with others
 * Create networks of users around content you care about
 * Find targeted, focused information, minimizing search time
 * Create "tagged" field trips / virtual field trips easily || * [|Mike's Delicious Links]
 * [|Mike's Diigo Links]
 * Learning to Bookmark Wiki
 * Diigo Help ||
 * **__ASCD Edge__** || * []
 * This is a website through ASCD that has a Facebook / Ning interface. It lets you connect to other educators but also lets you connect to heavy hitters in the educational frontier: Robert Marzano, Eric Jensen, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Janet Hale, etc. (And me!) || * [] ||
 * **__Curation Tools__**

|| * These tools allow the collection of favorite things online but in a visual way versus a textual way.
 * Pages can be created around individual topics.
 * See some of our Curations to the right ---> || * [|iPads in Schools]
 * [|Best of the Common Core]
 * [|Virtual Summer Camp] ||