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This blog makes the statement that social media helps students relate their life to their school work via social media... making school work more "active."

Hangouts let you video chat with up to 9 people, face-to-face-to-face. You can watch YouTube videos, wear pirate hats, or even doodle together.

I did not write the original comment. Google hangouts is a new communication tool that is free. It is like Facetime except that you can have up to 9 people on your call. It is suppose to be better then Skype because there is a screen sharing tool that you can use during the call. I just discovered this last night! I plan on trying it out when my hubby leaves for South Africa in a couple of weeks.

It is better than Skype, great quality and an interactive screen. I love it, and use it a lot to communicate with my family (I wrote a post about that!).

Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. The goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner. Seems like it may be a better alternative than using Facebook in the classroom to make sure privacy issues are not a problem.

Five reasons why Pokémon Go is the future of education... 1. It's popular. 2. It's fun. 3. It's on phones and kids like their phones, so education of the future will have to be on phones. 4.

"Augmented reality, which is better than reality" - made me laugh! This was an interesting take on Pokemon Go, and I appreciate that he said that we as educators shouldn't focus on the technology of it, but what it unlocks in the person using it. Thanks for sharing!

This quote stuck out to me "Education doesn't happen to students, but inside them. I can't remember where I heard that, but it's true." So VERY true! It's an internal process. Very cool article.

Time and technology

Of course, this ridiculously easy to use free survey tool, which many are already familiar with, could be used to vote as well. I have used this on class projects and it just doesn't get any simplier. A must. Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time. SurveyMonkey provides free online questionnaire and survey software.

What about Google Form? I never created any survey with SurveyMonkey, but worked with Google Form with my students, I always had a positive experience.

I've used both, numerous times, and I have to say I think Qualtrics is a much better product with greater functionality. :)

I don't know much about Second Life, and while it might have some elements that I could do without, I was thinking that this could tie nicely into a formal or informal Web 2.0 learning platform, game based learning, and Produsage. What do you think?

Second Life creeps me out too. I've tried exploring what it is, but I think it just boils down to me thinking that I would have to be dissatisfied with my first life to indulge in a second one. There was a season of The Office devoted to this, I think. It also doesn't help that the only Second Life example I have ever seen was the one that shares the thoughts and visuals of a schizophrenic and that the graphics look like the Grand Theft Auto video game (one that my little brother played WAY too much). I know all of what I just typed is silly (although true for me) because some really great things are coming out of Second Life. I have a friend who is working on her doctorate in ISD at the University of Southern Alabama, and she put a lot of work into a research on using Second Life to rehabilitate long-term prison inmates, prior to their release. She ultimately chose another topic for her thesis, but her work showed astounding results. Before learning about her work, I assumed Second Life was nothing more than a glorified Sims game.

To some degree, I agree Denise that its a little creepy. Especially since there are a lot of undesireable elements (at least to me) that seem to permeate the S.L. landscape. However, I am fascinated with using a virtual world setting to encourage learning because people tend to "get in to it" better when its in an environment that they can relate too.

calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.

Thanks for sharing this tool! One of my biggest frustrations with e-books is the lack of compatibility with different readers. I would also like to find a better way to "share" a good e-book with friends and colleagues (like a hardcopy book) without having time limitations or additional fees for another download. Any suggestions that work and stay within fair use of copyrighted materials?

This article argues that the term "screen time" is an antiquated approach to researching web and social media usage. The the connected age we live in, and with the wide arrange "screen" utilizations, it is better to research in terms of "screenomes," a coined term that looks at web uses like genomes. How one utilizes the web is more important than how much time spent on the screen.