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Article by teacher using Facebook as a way to manage assignments, network with students, and learn a little more about who his students are. 

This is an excellent article to help educators visualize how some of our tech tools can be used in a classroom.

A discussion of appropriate use AND NON USE of technology in the art and craft of teaching in higher education. Good discussion starter for instructional design and tech integration. Examples of when technology (ie. tools, gadgets and trends) did not result in "better" learning.  A reminder that we DESIGN instruction intentionally - not according to the latest fad.

This is one of my all time favorite blogs discovered during Karl's class last semester. I've shared it with a few other Cometeers, who have reaped the benefits of the blog's great resources for online teaching and learning. This was the blog that inspired my groups JING project and I just keep getting great ideas from this feed every day about how to provide a more efficient learning environment for my students.

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 ...

Tons of information from emerging technologies to trends in education! This is definitely one worth subscribing to!

This is an awesome site. I got three cool resources right off the bat that I bookmarked for coming up teaching year.

I was asked to attend Apple's e-learning session over the summer to learn about some of the great teaching apps for the iPad. I learned how to use many for Language Arts and am excited to share! This website highlights a couple of the best apps we went over for all of the subjects! Enjoy!

There are so many online tools out now for teaching how to write. Back in my day (which wasn't that long ago) The only technology we had was turnitin.com, a plagerism website. Now, using writing software (such as an updated version of turnitin.com, students can edit each others papers, teachers can track and edit changes to student papers and more!

Very practical tips for classroom Facebook use.

100 examples of HOW to use Facebook with students - both teacher/student interaction and subject specific examples.

This is the exact thing I need for just that reason, Lori. I got into a "debate" over this at work last week. I am SO forwarding this one to the Director of IT ;)

Ive heard of teachers using facebook as a way to teach students how to write biographies. They start by choosing a historical figure then creating a facebook page as if they were that figure. Then they use that as an outline for their writing. cool.

This article seems to counter a lot of what we hoped: It indicates that giving computers to students may lead to lower academic performance. Hmmm. We may need to look at the methodology behind this study.

I agree with you Sonya. I also think that the article does not state how students are expected to use the computers. Are teachers being trained? I think more variables are needed to support the claim that technology is not "making a dent" in education. It's like giving a kid a baseball bat and expect him to hit a homerun. The kid needs coaching, preferably from someone who knows what they are talking about!

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.

Find flashcards to study or create your own flashcards. Study flashcards or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.

Here is a blog resource on using cell phones with students. The author has a book on the subject published though ISTE. There are some very interesting posts.

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.

This site allow teachers to create modules for students to listen to, look at and/or read. Once they do that they record an audio response. This is great for ESL and World Language teachers. It has a limited free account and the paid account is very reasonable.

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.

Even stuffy ivy league universities are seeing the value of adding social media classes to their MBA programs to encourage new business models. Part of this is a reaction to some embarrassing errors made by major corporations: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html

Thanks for posting this Cathy! Ken and I were having a difficult time finding images that were free to use in education. We did not want to find ourselves using materials without permission. Thanks for the post!