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Handbook on creating learning materials for distance learning. Put together by the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver.

Article that provides statistics on tablet prevalence in university students. Explains the difference between mobile and tablets. Briefly suggests uses for tablets in higher ed.

"The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. The notion of a flipped classroom draws on such concepts as active learning, student engagement, hybrid course design, and course podcasting. The value of a flipped class is in the repurposing of class time into a workshop where students can inquire about lecture content, test their skills in applying knowledge, and interact with one another in hands-on activities. Although implementing a flipped classroom places different demands on faculty and forces students to adjust their expectations, the model has the potential to bring about a distinctive shift in priorities-from merely covering material to working toward mastery of it."

"Think Twitter is just a waste of time? Think again. Its organizational structure makes it an effective tool for connecting with students and others online" While this article is aimed at K-12, it also applies to higher ed.

"Alec Couros explains some of the strategies that seems to bear fruit when it comes to the adoption of technology for faculty members. He also touches on how to get started with Twitter, and shares some ideas on how to leverage social media for research."

Series of videos on clickers, managing TAs, managing teaching along with responsibilities, Q&As including about online courses, diverse students, and feedback (discontent vs. systemic).

Lots of resources to help educators get started.

Good interview with a Sask teacher explaining how he used a class wiki in his high school courses - easily applicable to higher ed.

"The expectation for researchers to have a presence beyond academia coincides with another shift that is making social impact now possible, for many researchers, and this is the rise of social media. These new, virtual environments are not just characterized by popular, personalized platforms like Facebook and Twitter, although I will come to these. Rather, social media encompasses the entire architecture of the scholarly Web today, best known as Web 2.0, which is a new way of organizing digital media content. While computing transformed scholarship in many ways before the rise of social media platforms, the average end-user experience, even for a novice, has altered considerably within just the last five years."

A detailed 8-minute introduction to giving audio feedback to students, because quicker than writing/typing, feels like the instructor is speaking to students directly, and students gain greater depth of understanding.

Not shocking, but still interesting. Still, as pointed in this post, there is a place for technology in the classroom "If you're worried that your students or children are eroding their vocabulary due to texting, you may want to sit down. Thanks to a new study in New Media & Society, it appears that students who text on a frequent basis perform worse on grammar tests."

"Hashtag is a great way for users to locate and keep track of particular information within the massive tweets. Know the topic you are interested in and look for its corresponding hashtag and try to continually check it for updates. This is the established way Twitter experts use to fish for new updates in their fields of interest."

"Here are five ideas and tools for video projects that you can try with your students this year."

Conventional wisdom has it that kids and young adults now coming of age have been so steeped in everything from video games to social networking that they bring amazing new technology skills to the workforce. The truth may not be so rosy.

"Use these quick reads to get essential information on emerging technologies and practices, including potential implications and opportuntities. These resources are great to share with teams or faculty considering a new technology."

While the article is about leadership in educational technology, almost all of it applies to leadership in any area of educational innovation. "The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform--be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism--is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology. Any educator will tell you the most successful implementation of technology programs takes place in schools where the principal sees him or herself as a technology leader."

"Outline of this artilce : 1- What is Evernote 2- Why Evernote in Education 3- Top Reasons for Using Evernote 4- Some Ways Teachers can Use Evernote 5- Some Ways Students can Use Evernote 6- Video Tutorials on The Different Uses of EVernote 7- Webliography ( Important links for further resources )"

"Evernote is a great web service and software application that we can use in education. A lot of ink has been shed on this topic and just one click in a search engine is enough to get hundreds of links to guides and tutorials about Evernote. I have been going through so many of these resources and have collected ideas, videos, notes and many more."

List of tools to use to gather feedback in class. These tools serve as alternatives to using Clickers.

Brief article exploring: 1. What is adaptive learning technology? 2. What can it do in 2013? 3. What are it's limitations in 2013?

List of tools that can be used to quickly poll all of the students in your classroom. Similar functionality to Tunring Point Clickers, but can be used on any device.