Facebook has announced a major revamp of how users control their privacy on the site. Among the changes, items posted online will each have their own sharing settings determining who can see them...

Please see below for advice from the Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning concerning Formspring:- YHGfL have recently responded to some concerns around Formspring  Formspring is a social n...

A really interesting article from Doug Woods @deerwod here

Some great ideas from Podium on how to use podcasting software in the classroom Download it here

PrimaryWall is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. PrimaryWall is like PrimaryPad but instead of a working on a document ...

Some great resources from TCI! Download it here

Some great ideas about how to use Wallwisher! Click here to see them

Some great ideas about how to use Twitter with your pupils here   * number changes nearly every day!

A great example of how to use the bad weather to a teaching advantage is UK Snow Depth. People have been asked to provide locations and depth of snow all around the UK by using Twitter. They add th...

A great manual to get you into using Web 2.0 with your pupils! Download it here

Terry Freedman has just completed, with the help of many, many people a labour of much love. His FREE web  book -The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book will give readers an incredible insight into what te...

 Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust. A survey of 3,001 children aged nine to 16 found t...

Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environmen...

Social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social netwo...

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. In a social bookmarking system, users save ...

A podcast is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. Though t...

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format An RSS document (which is called a ...

A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative ...

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the ...