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Syracuse University has purchased six-month subscriptions to Brand-Yourself.com's online reputation management platform for all 4,100 of its graduating seniors. The platform will help students monitor and shape their online presence during the job search process.

Facebook is the world's leading social network, with over 300 million users and more than 900 employees. But how do you get the most out of it? To answer this question and more, Mashable has created The Facebook Guide Book, a complete collection of resources to help you master Facebook.

"Social media is transforming our culture, opening new ways to connect with others and promoting the growth of communities of interest. Higher education is already feeling the impact of social media, and I think we're just at the beginning of that process. 9thPeriod offers a way for the University to leverage social media for pedagogical ends. I'm happy that the Learning Technologies Grant program has funded this opportunity to explore how social media can help support UGA's mission."

Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz making applications I collect after days' collection. These apps will help you make quizzes for online use for free.

recommendations:1. Ensure that all readings, articles, presentations and videos (all course material) are available in the course management system.2. "Create a weekly reading assessment that asks students to formulate or discuss the most important things you wanted them to get out the this week's articles."3. "Make your syllabus a living document and let students know about changes via class emails - it will put your class in the forefront of their minds."4. "Use technology to help students engage with one another - create peer review groups for papers or discussion groups online."

Teacher Robert Drewnowski had only $300 in grant money to help him develop a more effective way of teaching math to fourth graders. He used it to buy a Wii.

Designing a Blended course: Here is a three-step process: Establish clear learning goals for the topic. Design activities to help students meet the learning goals. Sort the activities into two categories: online and face-to-face. Very short article that might be useful in CELT's blended classes.

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For students new to medical school, parsing out the most relevant and helpful information from a seemingly limitless supply of materials can be daunting. The University of Virginia's School of Medicine has created a set of relevant websites that can be useful for medical students and others with an interest in related fields such as anatomy, physiology, and neurology. The links are divided into two dozen topical areas, such as "Gross Anatomy", "Nephrology", and "Surgery". Each section contains links from reliable sources, including the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The "Gross Anatomy" area is very thorough, as it contains over twenty resources that provide an overview of anatomy, anatomical slide shows, and so on

tool to help create a credit to an open resource.

Being used by BIO... needs more attention from me to help them with using this tool

example of page that looks reasonable but is bogus

a handful of colleges have begun using similar recommendation systems to help students pick their courses-a step that could change GPA's and career paths.

ie Explicitly teach the concept of concepts. would help students transfer knowledge between domains, I think

Showing students how to read critically and formulate research queries is part of the teaching function of college libraries. But how do you teach students to read critically that which has no text? She divided the students into groups and instructed them to write "problem statements" relating to important information that was not provided by the video. Then, with May's guidance, they translated those questions into keyword searches that might help them locate where in the library they might find answers.

these things are important to me on a recreational online forum (I like to help people, I like to receive a reward) Aren't some the same for online discussion groups?

List of tools like Camtasia, Google docs, youtube, good for a newbie

Based upon proven research and informed by practical experience, this Blended Learning Toolkit will offer guidance, examples, professional development, and other resources to help you prepare your own blended learning courses and programs.