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Avatars can be used by classroom teachers when designing digital stories or delivering content. Avatars can represent a tour guide explaining travels along the Silk Road, or represent real life characters like Mark Twain giving a lecture on his home or Einstein introducing the solar system.

Being a geek of Sims games, the Sim Schools appealed to my interests a lot. Here you can see a demo of school created by Sims 3.

Academic avatars are getting more and more popular as the academic faculty becomes younger, more Internet savvy and avatar-ish. I'll also get my avatar asap!

Avator tools are like the comic tools I have covered in an earlier post before, they both involve the use of images but in a funny and joyful way. Of course these tools can be used for a variety of educational purposes with our students in the classroom.

You can find teachers or a lesson all around the world and involved in.

I saw this new three days ago...Let's accept it in addition to my presentation. They use Minecraft for educational aim. MinecraftEdu

The presentation mentions the main cornerstones and flow of m-learning in higher education in detail.

I am not sure if this link is directly related to social media but this is an online conference about education and technology. Check out the link and register for free for the conference if you wish :)

Here is a free event: 'Net Nesliyle Yaşamak Sempozyumu' it is held in Maya Schools, 29th of March (this sunday). Anyone interested may apply and join the event :)

The review highlights the pros and cons of facilitating weblogs for Englsih language teaching.

Could you even think universities facilitate Snapchat to promote events, host giveaways, and showcase what is happening around the campus? This article shows how to use Snapchat at the organizational level in the higher education institutions. A good one!

Here you can see an example of a use of blogging for my movie analysis class. I have been trying to make it most to carry the lesson beyond the classroom. The feedback I get from my students is quite positive; they love it!

This is really a good example of using blog in higher education and this is the first blog that I saw about a real class. Thanks for sharing..

I loved how the guidelines are given as ingredients using the 'cooking' metaphor for 'supporting learning community'

I think this is a good example for an online learning community by California State University. You can register for free to join :)

MERLOT II is just like the online platform I know -NING-. I have never heard it before and it looks really educative.

This online social networking platform created by UC Irvine on which you can learn English free, use free online English lessons, chat, and find friends and penpals. Along with Livemocha, I strongly recommend this website to my students to interact with native speakers of English.

Ipeksaralar's Public Library | Diigo How the major providers of edutech help you turn anyplace into a classroom? This is the first infographic that I am looking for. It contains so much information in it but those are with graphs and short sentences like posters. The most interesting fact that I identify in the infographic is that there is a source called as YouTubeEDU and it has 700.000 educational videos over 800 channels.

This infographic presents 5 benefits of using technology in teacher education. One of the benefits that I found interesting was "technology reduces weight". I agree with this benefit a lot. Since I am a commuter as a doctoral student, I feel this benefit deeply. I used to carry huge handbooks and articles for a single presentation or a class reading. I now carry my iPad and use my cloud account on my tech tools, and read everywhere. I feel more comfortable and mobile now with the reduced weight and the less paper.

I like your choice which is simple but clearly describes what the benefits of using technology in the classroom :)

In the infographic, it is stated that " 98% of college students own a digital device" and "3 of 4 students say they wouldn't be able to study without technology". Based on these findings, I can suggest that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) can be a promising trend since students can study in classroom environment with their own technologies.

I agree with this infographic. Technology is the most important way to capture the attention of today's students.

I agree with you, Ceren. Increased student achievement as a consequence of use of Twitter in classes is interesting. I would like to give an example how it can occur. Students can use Twitter to write their short reflections about a topic they learnt in class. It may increase students' engagement in lessons outside of the class and as a result it may foster learning.

This infographic is about the education and integration of technology. It shows in the table the winnings both for the teacher and the student.

We have seen in our last class that using TPACK in classroom is actually not that easy. In this article, you can see what happened in the TPACK attempt of Alexandria Country Day School, Virginia, USA, which was a pilot study on iPad integration to the curricullum.