Two graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are exploring the use of social media by school leaders to build relationships within their school community as well as to deepen and extend their connections to other leaders outside of their school community.  We are looking for school leaders who would be willing to share their use of social media and their participation in communities of practice. Would you be willing to have a 15-20 minute conversation with us? Please…

Students 13 years and over want to learn more about your country first hand by working with your students. 'What do we know' global project is now open for classes - students use social media to actively participate and learn from each other.

So far we have:

Australia - What do we know? at http://webtowhere.ning.com/group/australia

Romania - What do we know? at…

Next global project ready to begin - The Webtowhere project - http://webtowhere.ning.com/group/time-lets-compare

My students, from Australia, have just started to collect

data on how they spend their time each day – they can estimate this if

necessary. Let your students compare how they spend their time with my students.

Get your students involved - allow them to combine social media and…

My students have started to make groups. They can be so clever at times - check out one student group at http://webtowhere.ning.com/group/the-big-happy-closet-thingy-majigy?xg_source=activity

My students are still waiting for others around the world to join them. They don't understand that their closet could be different to closets of others depending on where they live. They find it…

For all of you who have been following the “Back-to-School” blog – Thank…

For all of you who have been following the “Back-to-School” blog – Thank you!…

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Battlefield…

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Ed tech developer Interactyx has brought its learning management platform, TOPYX, to Apple's iPad.

TOPYX, which was first released a little more than a year ago, is a fully hosted SaaS learning management system that combines traditional LMS functionality with Web 2.0 and social networking tools (audio and video chat, blogs, whiteboards, forums, etc.)…