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Advancements in assistive technologies have spurred an emerging roster of new digital products designed to facilitate better communication between parents and teachers of children.

"Large-scale studies show that the technology itself doesn't necessarily make a difference. What does make a difference is well-designed technology coupled with well-prepared teachers,"

Learn to be concise by using Twitter. Daniel Clinghard uses Twitter as a summary tool to help students understand the power of words. Students have to summarize political texts in the 140 character limit and write a good summary.

Daniel Klinghard, a political science professor, uses Twitter to force students to write precisely about a particular reading.

Oberlin College utilizes Pinterest to tell a collective story about the school through pins. When students and alumnis share books, art, etc. they become part of a living story.

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This professor discusses how her class was better organized using a blog to generate comments, questions and collaboration. I enjoyed this particular article because it brought to life this idea of chunking a course by adding a blog element during the class. This is particularly meaningful to block teachers that may have students for 90 minutes. It is a great way to break things up.

This article, although stating a case for social media, gives many examples of uses for social media. It also gives examples of teachers that have used these social media in successful ways and gives statistics to back up their claims.

E.Delmatoff of Portland Oregon uses social media to help meet the schools "adequate yearly progress goal" for the first time ever.

This article gives examples of several high schools that are using Facebook for their classes and how it got started and what teachers need to know in order to be successful in their endeavors to create a classroom Facebook.

This article highlights how Blackboard is helping a number of school districts raise achievement, organization and engagement. It gives examples from several schools that participate.

I am sure many of us have heard a lot about flipping, and may have even tried it. This article breaks down flipping in four categories, giving direction on where to start.

This paper considers the case of one mid-sized international company and how it built a community of practice. It looks at different strategies and their effects on communities of practice and on global distribution of knowledge and then suggest areas to look at for further study. One such area for further research is to look into seeing how to link multiple communities of practice so that sharing can be more global.