EDTEC572

This is a great web-log set up describing 3 ways to use Diigo in the history or Language Arts Classroom. With many schools transferring to online texts, this is a great tool to share with students who still wish to annotate the test as they read!

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!

Interesting article highlighting why faculty members at universities need to know not just how to use technology in their classrooms, but how to use technology well.

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.

Really nice overview of effective screencasting. Highlight tech tips, software, online audio sources and formatting for various end devices. Clear, VERY informative read.

This allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and private online community.

Converge is a website that gives you strategies for using technology in the K-12 setting. Some highlights from the site cover; digital teaching and professional development, mobile learning and security, campus technology infrastructure to classroom technology uses. One article that caught my interest is "School Districts Integrate Technology into Core-based Curriculum." The article discusses school districts that are working to meet their learning goals with technology with the learning driving the technology instead of the other way around. All of the articles seem to cover successful practical uses of technology in the classroom which are ideas I am always looking for.

Generational difference in learning!

This is one of my favorite Facebook pages. It was created by a tutoring center in Southern CA. They post challenge questions and Math cartoons.

This website lists tips on finding Math resources using twitter.

Great eLearning blog containing up to date information about eLearning ideas, technology, use in the classroom and techniques. Contains an excellent post about Twitter for Learning for all of us new to Twitter. This post alone contains about 50 links for using Twitter in the classroom, Twitter Guides and tools, and uses for Twitter for elearning. I have been bookmarking a lot of blogs lately and this particular one contains a wealth of information, infinite links and is well organized, simple and the author's writing is straightforward and clear. Look forward to following him and reading more about his ideas.

This blog post lists 5 ways to use Twitter in education.

Backward Thinking or just smart parenting?

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!

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Very good information on how to have a teacher-student relationship using any type of social networking tool.

If you need to test web-based training for SCORM compliance before a launch, or just want to share a SCORM based course, this is a free tool that will let you invite up to 10 users to view a course. You can then track their score, etc.

This Cloud is inspiring!

Used this in EDTEC 700. I liked it better than google docs.

Creating a fake Facebook profile for a character in a book or of a famous person in history on Facebook.com is a violation of Facebook's terms of service. However, there are some ways to create fake Facebook profiles without using Facebook.com.