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A tutorial on using spreadsheets to graph data and analyze error

Briefly suggests applications for Microsoft Excel. Includes grade book ideas, lesson integration choices, and other non-mathematical uses.

Inspiring ways to use Twitter in education.

The SMILE acronym stands for Social Media in Learning and Education. I really like that the project was designed as a learning laboratory that looked at 6 communities of practice. They included: Social Media - What is it, Social media- school policies, Social media- PD, Social media, internet safety and responsible use and Social media- challenges to adoption.

Provides an example of a teacher using blogs, before blogs were commonly used as a classroom tool. The teacher had the students take their blogs and morph them in to online portfolios. The teacher published an eBook talking about the successes.

"Realfriends" was a social action project created by students who wanted to create a face to face social network to help make the school more social. Students were concerned about cyber bullying and isolation and thought it would be a good idea for the school community to meet face to face.

A group of students at Iowa City West High School started a social media club. They are committed to using Twitter and other social media to share positive thoughts.

The secret that fulfills the promise of 'phablet' computing is -- wait for it -- wearable computing! Some people describe their own giant phones or mini tablets as "phablets."

An article about how twitter can be useful in large classrooms

A biology teacher created a blog for her classes, Extreme Biology. Students were given the freedom to post and began to include research related stories. They commented on each other and drew attention from other bloggers and communities. The blog now includes wikis, tweets, and other social networking tools.

Twitter is used as a way for students to ask questions and comment on content. Although this is in a college setting, this can be applied to a high school setting. A class can have a specific hashtag for asking questions or commenting on content.

In Japan students are using Facebook as a discussion forum. Students post from a list of questions provided by the teacher and have a dialogue on the topic to enhance both oral and written responses.

Item # 3 stood out for me.

reddit is a social news aggregator that allows user submissions. This subreddit is for educational technology. It has fantastic articles linked in it all the time.

Mark Frydenberg, a lecturer at Bentley University, has a project were students collaborate on doing a presentation with other students in Romania. They use Facebook and Twitter to connect and YouTube to post videos that they create for the project.

Teacher Training | News Most Professional Development 'Sporadic, Short Term, and Divorced from Teaching and Student Achievement' Professional development should provide teachers with continuous feedback and opportunities to collaborate and coach each other, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress.