It’s been awhile since we’ve been tardy posting the Ten, our weekly rundown of great resources and articles shared via twitter. Three days in the woods at fifth grade camp is enough to throw even the most dedicated blogger off his game, though. Talk about engaging education! If you’ve never involved your students in some type of outdoor education, I highly recommend it. Catching up on sleep afterwards can be a little tricky, however…

Anyway, on to The Ten!

–The Best Android Tablets of 2012 (via @rmbyrne)

–Blooming Orange: Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster (via @russeltarr)

–How Would You Make Over Your Mall? (via @NYTimesLearning)

–An Unofficial Google Sites Directory (via @scsdmedia)

–Pinterest and Education (via Stephen’s Lighthouse)

–Using QR Codes to Showcase Student Process Work (via @ictforeducators @brasst)

–What School is Really Like for Students (via @bethstill @mcleod)

–Challenging the Myths of Schooling (via @newtechnetwork)

–Keeping Students Engaged in a 1:1 Classroom (via @jabbacrombie @bhsprincipal @mathrabbit1)

–The Stigma of Low Expectations (via @educationweek @PeterMDeWitt)

An impressive collection that we hope is well worth your time. Let us know! And have a great week.

The Ten returns from a brief hiatus to bring you ten more amazing resources that were recently shared via tweet. It returns with a bang…I’m all but certain you’ll find a lot of the following useful, inspirational, thought provoking, or all of the above!

–As Some Schools Plunge Into Technology, Poor Schools Are Left Behind (via @ChicagoTribune @ndcollier)

–Students As Creators of Content (via @jonbergmann @lcarroll94)

–Making the Right Digital Decisions (via @web20classroom)

–Johnathan Franzen Warns eBooks are Corroding Values (via @guardianbooks @mcleod)

–The Way You Act is More Important Than What You Know (via @examinercom @OWYP)

–What to Look For in a Classroom (via @alfiekohn @keinath)

–Apps to Help You Deal With Too Many Apps (via @RWW @willrich45)

–How Mobile Devices Are Changing Education in Africa (via @educationweek @JenPetras)

–Global Competency Still an Issue At Colleges (via @usatodaycollege @scottshigeoka @OWYP)

–BYOD Revisited (via @mluhtala @bhsprincipal)

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I wish more teachers could feel “the rush.” The rush I’m talking about is the feeling of excitement that arrives when reading a story, blog post, article, etc. that you discover on twitter. The rush of inspiration, motivation, or just plain giddiness.

Whether it’s a new idea, a point of view that challenges your own, or simply a fellow-colleague’s thoughts, learning and sharing via twitter can be invigorating.

More teachers are joining every day. If you’re a twittering teacher, take the time this week to twist the arm of a friend or colleague who hasn’t got hooked on it yet. Just send them to the Twitter Search page and have them type in #edchat. I give them 10 minutes before they’re registered!

Now, on the the matter at hand, the Ten…our weekly collection of 10 great resources we discovered from twitter in the last 7 days. Take a look:

–How Twitter Could Influence Science (via @Forbes @TweetSmarter)

–Every Presentation Ever (via @principalspage @sthcrft)

–American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches (via @HoneyFernDotOrg)

–Taking Organization and Planning Notes from Benjamin Franklin (via @daveandcori)

–How Public Radio Can Be a Great Learning Tool (via @edudemic)

–Learning Leadership from Congress (via @ThisisSethsBlog @colonelb)

–Sweden Debuts First Classroom-less School (via @smartplanet @dmlcentral)

–Tips, Tricks, and Resources for Making Your Own Infographics (via @thenextweb @ugaodawg)

–Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late? (via @TechCrunch @prernagupta @Durff)

–10 Lessons We Can Learn From Albert Einstein (via @Addictd2Success @Chuck_Bell_)

Did you like any or all of these? We hope so. And we hope you’ll follow along on our journey to share resources, help teachers learn, and change education for the better. Please, if you haven’t already, subscribe to our blog today!

I often wonder what Dr. King would think of 2012. Or how different 2012 would be if April 4, 1963 hadn’t happened the way it did. I have to think that, having accomplished victories over segregationists and living to see much of his Dream fulfilled, he would have turned his attention to what seems to be the biggest remaining civil rights challenge: education.

I hope you’re able to take time, either personally or in the classroom, and reflect on the legacy of Dr. King and to ponder the question of how we can work together to bring more equality to our field.

It’s not exactly a seamless segue to now move to this week’s Twitter Ten, but I’d be remiss not to mention it…

Free time was hard to come by this week, and finding time to peruse my twitter stream was hard to do. I really only had one stretch of a few minutes last week and in that time, I was able to discover 10 great tweets from the amazing people we follow. So nearly all of this week’s 10 come from a 15 minute session of scrolling through my PLN’s tweets! Check out the gems that 15 minutes can reveal…

–Summer Reading Recommendations: Global Titles (via @primarysource @libraryjenn)

–Doodling and Visual Thinking: A Case For Paper (via @theASIDEblog)

–10 Mistakes Leaders Should Avoid at All Costs (via @21stprincipal @michaelhyatt)

–Web 2.0 How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways (via @principalJ)

–What I Need to Relearn (via @snbeach @brendasherry)

–Should Teachers Own Their Own Learning (via @shareski @L_Hilt)

–Dropbox Inventor Determined to Build the Next Apple or Google (via @SteveG_TLC @LATimes)

–How to Focus in the Age of Distraction (via @Edudemic @s_bearden)

–Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions (via @Harvard_Ed_Pub @HeidiSiwak)

–Career of the Future: Data Scientist (via @AuntyTech)

Hope you find these useful. Let us know what stands out by leaving a comment…and keep tuned in for future editions of “The Ten” by subscribing to our blog today!

Happy New Year, Readers! And welcome back to our weekly rundown of great tweets from the week that was, The Twitter Ten. The Ten has been on hiatus since before Christmas, but we’re back and ready to share great resources courtesy of our amazing personal learning network (PLN).

Here are ten things we learned recently via twitter, complete with links to the folks who wrote/tweeted them, so you can be sure to add them to your own PLN…

–A Beginnner’s Guide to Pinterest (via @mashable)

–Edmodo: A Guide to Everything (via @itbabble @web20classroom)

–Student Electronic Portfolios: A Model (via expateducator @brasst)

–Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns (via @GOOD @mindshiftKQED)

–Wax On Wax Off and Other Lessons Learned (via @snbeach)

–Can Older Teachers Still Be Innovators? (via @pernilleripp)

–3 Ways Apple Could Revolutionize Education (via @edudemic)

–Students as Blog Leaders (via @chrkennedy @gcouros)

–12 Ways to be More Search Savvy (via @mindshiftKQED @scsdmedia)

–Ozge’s 100 Favorite Web Tools of 2011 (via @ozge)

This list is going to be hard to top! But we’ll try anyway next week…stay tuned and don’t miss a post by subscribing now.

Welcome to the final edition of The Ten for 2011. For those of you new to this series, each week we round up 10 great tweets from the week prior. You can’t read every single thing tweeted by the people you follow (although we certainly try to), so we bring you the Twitter Ten to hopefully catch you up on what you might have missed. Here are 10 great resources shared by our PLN last week:

–60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom (via @jenniferlagarde @OU_com)

–The 10 Biggest Ideas of the Year (via @TheAtlantic @larryferlazzo)

–Is the Education Crisis About Poverty? Maine Offers a Different Story (via @dropoutnation)

–A Taxonomy of Reflection (via @edteck @MikeGwaltney)

–America’s Story from America’s Library: Primary Sources for Younger Students (via @librarycongress @shannonmmiller)

–Technology Innovators in the Classroom (via @chrkennedy @tomwhitby)

–Infographic: The World’s Leading Innovators (via @GOOD @rkiker)

–Should Computer Science be Required K-12? (via @MindshiftKQED @audreywatters)

–Flipped: Why it Has to be a Conversation (via @teachpaperless @johntspencer @pernilleripp)

–10 Best TED Talks to Share With Students (via @edudemic)

A great list to end the year. I hope these resources prove as valuable to you as they did to me. Happy Holidays! See you for the next installment of The Ten on January 2. We’ll have other great posts between now and then, so if you don’t want to miss them, please subscribe today via RSS or email.

We’ve been actively tweeting for about 9 months now and it’s clear that the power of twitter as a personal learning tool has grown just since March. There are more resources, more chats, more discussions happening every month it seems. Some feel overwhelmed by this and they claim that twitter is “just too much” to digest. To them I say, “I understand, but hang in there. Twitter isn’t a pool you have to dive into, but rather a stream for dipping your toes into from time to time.”  A stream of information–that’s a pretty good metaphor. So good that surely I’m borrowing it from somewhere. But that’ll have to be okay for now.

It’s time to move on to this week’s edition of The Ten–10 great tweets featuring some amazingly useful resources. Take a gander at these beauties…

–The Collapse of Public Education in America [Infographic] (via @bhsprincipal)

–Need MORE Proof that Incentive Programs are Dangerous? (via @l_hilt @plugusin)

–Why School Choice Fails (via @pammoran @nytimes)

–5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap out of the One You Got in School (via @skooloflife @gcouros)

–What School Would Look Like if We Listened to Research (via @Getting_Smart)

–12 Ideas for Teaching with QR Codes (via @edutopia @betamiller)

–When an Adult Took Standardized Tests Meant for Kids (via @betchaboy @washingtonpost)

–Why Innovation Can’t Fix America’s Schools (via @TheAtlantic @EducateNCare)

–Christmas Greetings (via @pammoran @pamelaaobrien)

–30+ Open Wikis You Should Know About (via @edudemic @rkiker)

THAT is an epic list. But we’ll try to top it next Monday. See you then!

As winter approaches, your schedule is probably becoming more hectic. Holiday parties and shopping and all that good stuff keeps you away from your tweeps on twitter. Obviously, the holiday season is top notch, but it can be hard to miss out on all that learning!

Luckily, The Ten, our weekly rundown of 10 great tweets from the past week is here for you. Take a look at some of the gems that were shared the past seven days:

–Studies Support Rewards, Homework, and Traditional Teaching–or Do They? (via @GOOD @alfiekohn)

–Virtual Schools are Multiplying But Some Question Their Educational Value (via @washingtonpost)

–Top 10 Educational Videos of 2011 (via @edreach @jenniferlagarde)

–Where Good Ideas Come From: The Students (@bhsprincipal)

–How to See Every Google Doodle Ever Made With One Click (via @gizmodo @auntytech)

–Looking for Positive Deviants (via @shareski @gcouros)

–Permission to Play, Please? (via @angelamaiers @bhsprincipal)

–Apps for Children With Special Needs (via @VAMCE2010)

–Project Based Learning Through Edmodo (via @web20classroom @krbiles)

–Find Google Plus Circles to Join (via @ellsbeth)

A hearty list, to be sure. Like what you read? Make sure you’re following on twitter and subscribed to our blog so you never miss another tweet or post.

I’m pretty sure I could put together a Twitter Ten post every day. Actually a Twitter Thirty, maybe. That’s how many great resources are being shared by educators via twitter. Alas, contrary to several rumors circulating out there, I am not in front of my computer enough to pull that one off. So, The Ten, our weekly recap of 10 great tweets you may have missed, will have to do.

Even though last week was a short one with the holiday and all, I still found a lot worth checking out. I hope this recap does the same for you:

–7 Deadly Sins of Creativity (via @marcandangel @LauraAustinNow)

–How Do I Start Personalizing Instruction? (via @edutopia @web20classroom)

–DO NOT Integrate Technology into the Curriculum (via @stevegoldberg68 @l_hilt)

–Should Textbooks and Teachers be Funnier? (via @edudemic)

–Have We Gotten It Wrong on School Reform? (via @huffingtonpost @larryferlazzo @CohenD)

–Some School Librarians No Longer Saying Shh! (via @bostonherald @txlibraryguy)

–How to Use Google Search More Effectively (via @mashable @gcouros)

–To Tech or Not to Tech? That is NOT the Question (via @LydiaDobyns @huffingtonpost @nancyrubin)

–How College Prep is Killing High School (via @bostonglobe @alfiekohn)

–6 Historic Events and How They Might Have Been Tweeted (via @mashable @jenniferlagarde)

It’s an old bit at this point, but I’ll say it anyway…this week’s Ten just might be the best one ever. I’m sure in about seven days I’ll be saying the same thing…and meaning it. In the meantime, please consider subscribing to our blog or following us on twitter to receive valuable info delivered straight to you. Have a great week!

Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of The Ten, our weekly recap of great resources we’ve discovered via twitter. Today we give thanks to our Personal Learning Network. You make so many things possible, including so much of what we do. The Ten wouldn’t exist without our tweeting friends from places far and near. So just so you’re aware, if you’re reading this or you follow us on twitter or facebook or you’re a subscriber…we appreciate you. Thanks for all you’re doing for education.

So here’s ten resources we learned about via tweet last week and liked. Hopefully you’ll find something you like, too…

–Explaining Creative Commons Licensing (via @tombarrett @web20classroom)

–Online Learning: Another Misguided Mandate (via @conprin @bhsprincipal)

–What Am I Doing? (via @conprin @azjd)

–How Bill Gates Can Be an Education Hero (via @washingtonpost @MrMatthewRay)

–It’s All About the Hashtag (via @web20classroom @jenniferlagarde)

–5 Email Newsletters Dan Pink Reads (via @danielpink @pammoran)

–10 Ways to Change the Mind of Tech Reluctant Staff (via @eschoolnews @jenniferlagarde)

–6 Tips for Brain Based Learning (via @edutopia @brasst)

–On Creativity (via @whatedsaid @tcash)

–Teaching Creativity: The Answers Aren’t in the Back of the Book (via @huffpost @tcash)

–What We Can Learn About Classroom Management From Abraham Lincoln (via @larryferlazzo)

Now that you’ve enjoyed this list, show your appreciation and gratitude to the authors of these posts by leaving them a comment. My goal is to do the same. I’ve got two done so far…off to post the rest.