Great open access resource for science instructors

If you're like me and Twitter seems too vast to venture in check out Corey Murray's blog on Education hashtags.  He provides a quick list of common education hash tags to follow to get you started.  Try following some of them to keep yourself up to date on the ever changing world of education.

I know the tools are out there, but sometimes I feel like I don't have time to find them.  Luckily, Mohamed Kharbach did it for us!  Check out his blog learn about the skills educators should have and use the links to learn or brush up on them. 

Yesterday was a big day for Twitter - the company premiered its first ever TV commercial during a NASCAR race, which showed off a brand-new hashtag page that could open a new and very welcome revenue stream for the micro-blogging platform.

I have always wanted to have my own blog.  I even tried a book blog once, but I couldn't read fast enough to blog often enough.  There's nothing worse than a blog that is only updated once a month!  Bill Carozza has inspired me to try again, but this time on something I do everyday and professionally.  Check out this article for a few good reasons educators should blog.

Offline mapping for Android phones, Street View for nature trails and 3D Google Earth maps are all improvements coming to Google Maps in the near future.

Benelab, founded by Seattle teenager Jack Kim, is a search engine that donates 100% of revenues to charity.

There is a small town, about 12 miles east of Austin, Texas, where a high school devoted to teaching every subject to every student through project-based learning (PBL) opened five years ago. On its own, this would not have been a noteworthy event. The list of schools across America deepening the learning process through PBL has been growing for quite some time. But few schools have fine-tuned the process like Manor New Technology High School in Manor, Texas, where 98 percent of seniors graduate and 100 percent of the graduates are accepted to college

A colleague of mine just finished his masters in special education.  This is a link to his capping project.  It contains tips on how to work with students who have asperger's syndrome.

What I like about this article is how it discusses using students to help teachers learn technology and its applications for learning.

If you are interested in education and intellectual property you might be interested in part of this pod cast (Time stamp: 14:23)

I want one of these! :)

Discusses the success of using peer-instruction during lecture time to help students solidify concepts.

Copyright and Creative Commons made easy.

A new tool (or at least new to me) for concept mapping, collaborating and sharing ideas.

A quick way to build RSS feeds. 

An easy way to create a widget for any social media you use

Teaches you how to replace the calendar in Angel with a google calendar.  When you update your google calendar it updates in Angel.  You can't make updates to the calendar in Angel, it has to be done through Google.  Great if you have multiple sections of the same class--only update once!

I was working with some instructors on including a widget in their Angel courses that would update a list of the articles they are bookmarking.  Found a way to do this using Diigo through this informational slide show.  Lots of different tidbits on how to use all the tools Diigo can offer.