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eduwikius - home Great resources with all types of activities and resources for your classroom. tags : education , news , tools , bestpractices , technology eduwikius - Wikis For those who love wikis and want to see what people are using around the world, visit Eduwiki.us. with over 2000 resources listed, this is a great resource for what people are doing. tags : education , learning Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

NJ Tech Teacher Musings: Chatting Up Internet Safety Ann is doing great things with backchannel chats with her 7th and 8th graders - this is a fascinating post and I learned a lot. tags : education , learning , edu_news Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

These are my favorite apps, software, and sites for managing my life, home, classroom, and more.  Hope you enjoy and hope you share yours in the comments. Calendaring 1. Google Calendar Google Calendar is now and has been my calendar of choice for about a year and a half. I have a personal calendar for me that is set up to send me a text message at certain times before I have to be somewhere because I always forget what time it is!  My family and each child has a calendar (I set the kids appointments to automatically show up on the family calendar), and I use Google cal for my classes .   Each class and major project such as netgened has a calendar and I embed these calendars in all of the Nings, blogs, and wikis as needed to keep people apprised of what is happening. I print these calendars out for my classes and for the refrigerator! The greatest addition to the calendar is that now I keep my 5 most important calendars on my Apple iPod touch 16 GB (2nd Gene...