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PDF of presentation on Using Facebook for teaching and learning

I found this useful in that I could see building on it as I presented how WE would use social media in OUR classroom when presenting to my students. It also made me hungry for different sources on the subject such as guidelines and theory. Off to search ...

Rachel S. Smith of New Media Consortium demonstrates how she uses an iPad to visually record presentations (think doodling!) She demonstrates narrated QT video using Brushes and iMovie. GREAT ideas for presentation development! For EDTEC572 students: I KNOW the semester is over.. But some of you will think this is really nifty :)

PLEASE! Keep adding great resources to our diigo group! I use these ideas all the time for inspiration and new things. Thank you so much, Cathy!

3 minute presentation on the vast amount of information we are producing.  GOOD ideas for slideshows. Note the clear graphics and helpful transitions.  Many of the effects used could easily be done in PPT or Keynote.  View for inspiration!

Brainshark, a way to upload and annotate presentations, has a free android app.  Worth exploring!

Fascinating example of using whiteboard graphics to animate or illustrate main points of a short lecture.  How is this strategy MORE effective than other graphic strategies? 

Cathy, this video is fascinating both for its content and its technique. Is this instructor such a great artist, or does he collaborate with an artist, sound editor, etc. to produce these videos? The topic reminded me of conversations I've had with friends who live in Spain. They tell me Americans are always too busy and that in Spain if you are late for an appointment no one criticizes you. They assume you had an important visit with someone along the way.

Regarding content: Yes, interesting thoughts on the implications of culture! As an instructional designer, I begin to consider how one might design instruction for various cultural groups (In fact, that is covered in the non-COMET version of 572.) Regarding graphics: I don't know if the narrator and artist are one person. For more on the concept of instructive doodles, look for the book "The Back of the Napkin". The premise is that anyone can develop enough skill to illustrate ideas!

Cool Cat Teacher - Vicki Davis, created this Slide share for a presentation on back channeling. It explains more what it is and gives some ideas on how to use it in the classroom.

This session will help you extend and add value to your Twitter experience by demonstrating a variety of new Twitter tools that can serve to create a more comprehensive and capable platform for learning.  Leave the session with an understanding of how to enlarge the affordances of Twitter and how to make it an essential part of your practice.

Tom lays out perspectives/arguments very nicely. In many ways, I think it boils down to the person him or herself.  Some folks have the discipline, drive and contextual experiences/collegial interactions that would make more autonomous 'self study' very effective.  Others... not so much. I think in this day and age, this issue presents itself in many professions.

Facebook video:  Facebook for educators.  Great 8 minute video introducing FB to educators and showing important tips and best practices.  Easy view. Available from within FB.

This is a great video! Although facebook is blocked at our schools, among other amazing web resources, students can still access material from home. I'm thinking that if a teacher creates enough buzz about a class facebook, students will get involved with it at home. Teachers can even give participation points for students who post. This brings up a question of equity. .. What about students who don't have computers or internet access at home? My answer to that is for students to network with family and friends, and find someone who will let them use the internet. Many public libraries have internet access. Of course this is coming from a high school teacher point of view. Love the video! But I still need to get familiar with all of the settings and privacy controls on there before I use it in class. :)

ISTE description of Soloway/Norris preso on Mobile Learning.

Main points from ISTE 10 conference session by Elliott Soloway and Cathie Norris's entitled: "From Add-on Technology to Essential Technology: Constructing 1-to-1 Aware Curriculum".  Mobile learning.

I love using this to create lessons that my students can interact with. If the students I work with were slightly older I would definitely have them use it to create interactive posters too.

This blog post describes a teacher who uses Twitter in his 8th grade classroom. He uses it to "back channel" during certain activities. (back channeling is described and defined in the post). I think it is very interesting to see, I would like to observe a teacher actually doing this in class. I find that back channeling can at time split focus and keep listeners from 100% focus and attention and they end up missing important parts of the live goings on.

robust animation browser-based program.  Can create characters, sets, animate and add own images and sound tracks (up to 4 tracks). Easily embed in websites, Facebook, Twitter.

If you need a rapid development tool similar to Articulate, look at Snap by Lectora. It may not do everything that Articulate does, but it's can get project online quickly.

This widget allows you to create a quiz in Captivate and then track it using a GoogleDoc. 

Wow, this is great! I'm going to try this out. Thanks for sharing. It's an easier alternative to linking up the presentation with an LMS system.