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News
There are hundreds of news sites out there now. You can choose whatever flavor you want. Here are a few to get you started. CNN -- [|www.cnn.com] Fox News -- [] TownHall -- [] CNS -- [] Yahoo news -- [|www.news.yahoo.com] MSNBC -- [] Washington Post -- [] Star Telegram -- []

Blogs
You can sign up to start your own, or browse to find a topic you want to follow. But you have to create an account if you want to join the discussion. Wordpress -- [] See what’s there to read -- [] Blogger -- []

Podcasts
News, information, commentary, discussion—you name it, delivered to you via an RSS feed, meaning you subscribe to it and the content usually comes via MP3 format. This week in technology TWiT -- [] Useless fact for the day: ever wondered what RSS stands for? Really Simple Syndication! (thank you TwiT.TV) Edutopia -- [] Funded by the George Lucas Educational Foundation Juice -- [] podcast receiver for both Mac and PC (cross-platform)

And for those of us who are Apple devotees:
Itunes university -- [|http://www.apple.com/education/why-apple/#itunes-u?kmed=ppc]

Webinars
Just like everything on the Net, some are free, some cost money. This is getting to be a favorite way to offer continuing education or training in using a new product. Illuminate -- [] Edweb -- [] Classroom 2.0 live -- [] The authors of this site have taken a break. But it looks like it is very promising, so we will keep an eye on it.

Self-Published Videos
We all get this one. But until you spend some time in it, you don’t realize just how deep and how broad the selection is. Even PBS is getting in on the act, with short videos produced exclusively for and shown only on YouTube. Schooltube -- [|http://www.schooltube.com] YouTube -- [] TeacherTube -- [] Education-Tube -- []

Shared Presentations/Online Collaboration
These are handy. Create your powerpoint. Upload and share it, and it’s there waiting for you when you get there. Or, join and borrow someone else’s, and you can save yourself a lot of time. Authorstream -- [] SlideShare -- []

Twitter -- it's not all drivel!
For teachers -- [] @teachers -- [|http://twitter.com/#!/teachers] Twitter matchmakers (be careful with this!)

Nings
Network-ing...Ning! Teachers 2.0 -- [] Web 2.0 School Libraries -- []