BUCAT

really interesting statistics about how students are using technology

Changes that are HERE for teachers and librarians.

List of apps from Marian College (WI) presented at the 2011 Campus Technology Conference Workshops

BookmarkQ - lets you link to a specific part of a web page.  

Khan Academy - hadn't heard of this before but I LOVE the way instructors are using this to "flip" the classroom.  Using these short videos to deliver the content (lecture) and using the class time to do the homework where students can receive the help they might need.

Mashable has produced an extensive guide on all of Google+'s key features, as well as an introduction to the service and the important things you need to know about it.

The StudentAdvisor.com research team continuously collects information on how active and effective each school is at engaging their audiences on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media tools, such as iTunes and podcasts. The ranking methodology also takes into account the size of each school's population, as well as other metrics, to gauge overall reach and effectiveness. The team then produces a strictly quantitative score for each school based on this information, and updates the findings regularly.

" A recent survey of almost 2,000 teachers found that half think that using Twitter (and Facebook) in the classroom "is harmful to the learning experience." But, Los Angeles history teacher Enrique Legaspi disagrees with the naysayers. Last year he went to a workshop that discussed ways to use Twitter in teaching and now his students-even the shy ones-at Hollenbeck Middle School in East L.A. are speaking up more."

Article describes a classroom broken down into stations, each one designed to teach specific skills in different ways. A kid who needs to learn how to calculate the area of a circle could be taught in a group with a teacher, with a virtual tutor, or with a computer program.

Really cool site for making tag clouds that are in shapes, have fonts, etc.

Large number of iPads accessing the network and using intensive applications.

a searchable group of apps based on device, grade level, Blooms, price - well maintained site!

Great list of apps aligned with Blooms Taxonomy

Based on the book, Understanding by Design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) this article summarizes the process of designing courses as "backward process." The process has 3 basic steps - 1) Identify desired results, 2)Determine Acceptable Evidence, and 3) Plan Learning Experiences

This is a very good introduction to the impact of social media on society.

We should make better use of Atomic Learning like in this example.

Cool infographic about iPad apps growth

a new way of social drinking?