Who said we had to share tools here in What's the New What?  Sometimes concepts work better.  Catch the following TED video by Seth Godin, one of our great modern thinkers.  Consider your "tribes" and reply with your thoughts about how we join, negogiate, participate and support "tribes" for learning.

I don't know where you get your "good stuff" but I've got a bunch sitting in my Google Reader RSS feeds that provide me with lots of thinking and tinkering to do.  One of those is Sylvia Martinez, president of GenYES, who writes the GenYES Blog.  Two recent posts by Sylvia provide information of considerable worth to educators. 

Educators are forever searching for meaningful, high quality resources that extends learning.  Often times they will search sites like YouTube for videos to easily share with students and colleagues related to learning outcomes.  However, many schools and districts are filtering or blocking YouTube because of accessibility to inappropriate content.  The cost is the loss of content that has high educational value. 

You've more than likely run across someone or some company asking you to "follow" them on Twitter and just as likely, you've wondered what all the hub-bub was about.  This installment of What's the New What? takes us into the abstract world of Twitter.

What is it?