Are you reviewing the year 2009? If you microblog on Twitter, you can use this very simple tool, Tweet Cloud, to analyze what topics you tweeted about. That is an excellent way to determine which topics prompted you and your colleagues to discuss on Twitter.

Using a simple web application like Tweet Cloud can clarify your past ideas, so you can think of what you would consider important in the future. Nonlinguistic representations are very informative learning strategies. Do you use Tweet Cloud? How has your user experience been?

If you've never used Tweet Cloud before, how did you use it? How did that work out? I hope you like using Tweet Cloud. It's fun and you can learn something of yourself in a non-threatening manner. Enjoy!

Note-taking is one of the easiest, yet most successful instructional strategies that a teacher can use in their reportoire, yet many do not take advantage of the full measure of learning that can occur when using note-taking in the classroom. Also, there are now a multitude of ways to integrate note-taking with web applications such as Google Docs.

The most straight forward method of integrating note-taking to online practice is to make a Google Doc using your Note-taking template. The note-taking template provided here is for Combination Notes. This format was used to start the conversation about the variety of note-taking choices and can be used to guide through the process of selecting your favorite to integrate with Google Docs.

The notes provided in this template are:

• Research and Theory on Note Taking
• Classroom Practice