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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.

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

Generational difference in learning!

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.

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!

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

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!

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!

Generate appointments in real-time 24x7, connect with customers, eliminate no-shows, and maximize your schedule.

This is a brief overview about mobile learning platforms. It is an easy read!

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.

Schoology is a learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content.

my 700 group is using this as a collaboration tool. http://www.schoology.com/group/6086206

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.

Learn how to use Google Earth to view images of what locations looked like in the past.

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!

All three Domains: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. The Table we use in class is for Cognitive only. Some of your projects might go beyond the Cognitive domain.

Interesting ideas on using Twitter in education.

Quick of overview of Google Apps for Educators. Good beginning article with links.