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A word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which the word or phrase appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases.

Twiducate is a free platform for creating your own micro social network in a Twitter-like format. Twiducate allows you to create a private network for posting assignments and messages to your students or other people you invite into your network.

Open Educational Resources come in many shapes and sizes. This partial list of sources introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.

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EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference Streamed Sessions | EDUCAUSE

George Siemens slide deck from EDUCAUSE 11

it's no silver bullet. Surprise. Are we so gullible?

When to use maps, when not. full post is worth a read, chock-full of examples.

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Social media technologies and their ease of use make them attractive channels of communication. However, these tools also can open the possibility of unintended consequences. To enhance the effective use of these technologies, these guidelines draw upon examples of best practices from various institutions to outline the most appropriate use of social media. Due to the rapid changes in technology, this guideline may be reviewed and updated as needed.

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Webinar recorded September 21, 2011. A demo and discussion of recently enhanced accessibility features in Google Apps for businesses, governments and schools.

Sage Colleges Distance Learning Policies and Procedures

Plymouth State Distance Learning Policies and Procedures

 I asked students to write in Google Docs and then share their papers with me so I would also be able to view them online. Instead of scribbling marks in the margins of printed papers, I opened each student's paper in Google Docs, highlighted text and inserted comments to clarify my thoughts, and then turned on the screen recorder (Jing) to record my voice as I scrolled through the paper and pointed to items with my mouse. Right after recording, I uploaded the finished recording to Jing's companion hosting site, and then I simply copied and pasted the link to the recording directly into the Google Doc. It was slick like butter.

Advice for those doing quick video interviews and webcam projects.  No-one ever warned me that I would be doing video interviews when I first became a teacher. No-one came up to me and offered me media presentation training like they do for politicians.

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Here are some ideas for using these extraordinary photos across the curriculum - and some suggestions for including other Times features in which the details of everyday life become an anthropological lens.

Dean Shareski talked about this in his article entitled, "How to Make Better Teachers", and the one word he used for his answer was "blogging".