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Facebook profiles for literary/historical figures.

Great example of touchscreen mobile algebra interactive learning solution.

MANY alternatives and sources for educational video content beyond YouTube.  Great list.

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.

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!

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

Math teachers, this is for you. (Geometry and algebra magic tricks with a mathematical basis.)

Thanks for sharing this Kelly. I will definitely be sharing this with my class. They are always interested in tricks.

This website lists tips on finding Math resources using twitter.

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 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!

This is a blog by a woman who has worked in the health and education sectors. She has always been interested integrating different types of technology in education.

#edtec572 This screencast movie shows how to access the free materials archived by Google. This can be useful for research.

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 ...

This article reinforces the importance of creating structure when using social media in the classroom. "... the use of social media in school can't be left to chance; it needs to be mediated." I think this article makes great points about integrating SM into the classroom and its role in empowering our students.

This is such an important topic, Christine. As we begin to bring the social media tools that our students use on an everyday basis into the classroom it is so important that we create that same "structure" and "guidance" that we do with all of the other tools and materials that we use. They need and expect this from us in this rapidly changing era of technology.

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.