Gaming arenas like Tabula Digita, Second Life and the River City Project are taking the educational world by storm.

What is all the buzz about social bookmarking, tagging, wikis, social networking, and the many Web 2.0 technologies that are key components of students’ daily vocabulary? Which technologies can support and enhance the curriculum? How can educators effectively use the “read/write Web ” to motivate students and connect them with other students around the world? There are many ways educators are using technologies such as Flickr, del.icio.us, Ning, Google Earth and Wikis to engage digital natives in the learning process.

"Go Green, Green is the New Black, Sustainability for the Future, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. These are slogans and catch phrases I am hearing more and more about each day. It appears the topics of Global Awareness and Sustainability are hot! Therefore, I figured it was time to become more enlightened in these areas. The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) hosted their 2008 Institute for Leadership in Sustainability June 23-26. The conference covered many exciting topics from “Confronting Climate Change on Campus” to “Building a Sustainable Dining Program”.Conference -goers received a poster outlining 101 Ways to be Green and Global. As I perused the entries I wondered, “what can educators and administrators do to jump on the Green-Global train and ensure that students are aware of these 21st Century themes?”