EDUC 506 Sum12

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A collection of clips from the Plain English series explaining the main tools and strategies on the Internet over the past few years. Now Playing: Social Media in Plain English uploaded by leelefever at youtube.com A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media.

This site provides an overview of Web 2.0 tools that can be used for education

Most instructional technology implementation efforts focus their efforts around a few key areas. In our experience, these areas most often are: As a way of establishing what's possible or ideal in each of these areas, we find that it's useful to review how the relevant research describes "best practice".

"As with any new social medium, there is an entire vocabulary that users of the Twitter service adopt. Our Twitter Dictionary defines many of the new lingo Twitter-based terms and phrases."

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into the "club." So, here's a newbie's guide to this new platform. We don't cover every feature of Twitter, but this should help get you started.

Interactive site can be used to help students learn the letters of the alphabet and their letter sounds. Also great holiday games to play as well.

ehis site can be used for interactive activities for students in different subject areas.

This is a game called mat man. It is a pre-writting game that lets students build mat man using different writting strokes.

This is used to print materials for students to use. They have great materials to create your own file folder activities

Twitter is new to me, but I have already seen some great ideas posted!

This is my first blog, but I can already see the benefits it would have for communicating with students and parents.

Many ideas of how to use wikis in the classroom!

Another application that can be used in schools to keep parents informed of what is happening in school and the classroom.

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This group is for students in the summer 2012 EDUC 506 course.

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Extensive description/slideshow of diigo and how it can used by educators