Sanderling - Your Field Journal of Professional Development

Sanderling is a new community and Android app developed by An Estuary . Sanderling is part social network and part blogging tool. On Sander...

Classroom 2.0 - A Good Place to Get Opinions

Earlier today I received an email from a reader who was looking for information about learning management systems (LMS) in particular Haiku ...

Two Good and Easy Ways To Expand Your PLN

The question that I am asked more often than any other in regards to building a personal/ professional learning network is, "how do I f...

Going Beyond Google With the Help of Friends

Whenever I have the opportunity to speak about personal/ professional learning networks (PLNs) one of points that I stress to the skeptical...

Google+ Is Two, Have You Tried It Yet? You Should

Google+ turned two this week. Many teachers (and many others) have ignored it even though it has some great features. I outlined my favorite...

Instagram, Food, and Regional Differences

I'm not likely to be accused of being a hipster anytime soon, but this evening I did Instagram a picture of part of my dinner. Brown b...

Places We Can Connect

Over the last two weeks I've given four presentations about building personal learning networks online. In all of those presentations I...

How One School Community is Using Google+

Yesterday, I shared five things that I like using Google+ to build a PLN . One of the five things that I mentioned was creating communities ...

5 Things I Like About Building a PLN on Google+

Due in part to the fact that anyone who has a Google Acccount has a Google+ account, Google+ claims more users than Twitter. But based on th...

Tagboard - Organization for Following Hashtags

This morning while I was preparing to give a talk about personal learning networks at the TIE Conference in South Dakota I was watching the...

Learnist is Like Pinterest for Learning

Learnist is a new site (still in beta) that aims to be like Pinterest but for sharing learning resources. On Learnist you can create pinboa...

Teaching Mom Twitter

So I'm not actually trying to teach my mom to use Twitter, but it makes for a nice title to this post. Mom, This Is How Twitter Works i...

Developing an Online Personal Learning Network

These are the slides from the presentation about personal learning networks that I gave at NCTIES . Under the slides I have included a few o...

Educational Twitter Chats Calendar

One of the ways that educators can benefit from using Twitter is to participate in any number of Twitter chats. Twitter chats are scheduled ...

Nine Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter - Updated

Yesterday, I published a post featuring a video on how to use Twitter's advanced search features to find personalized results. In that ...

How to Use Twitter's Advanced Search Options

First, this is not one of those "Twitter will save education" posts. That said, Twitter can be useful for finding resources that ...

Sketchy Explanation: Starting a PLN

Earlier today Kyle Pace shared a link on Twitter with the phrase "great video to share, Sketchy Explanation: Starting a PLN." I j...

Don't Eat Lunch Alone

In last week's post 131 Tips for New Teachers (thanks again to everyone that contributed) one of the tips that came up a few times was ...

What's Your Best Advice for New Teachers?

Ten days ago I asked you to share the new thing(s) you're planning to do in the new school year. In 72 hours 140 of you responded and I...

A New Directory of Education Blogs

Disclosure: Edublogs is currently a paying advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Edublogs has just launched a brand new directory of...