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"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."

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.

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

"As Bakary Diallo, a professor from the African Virtual University, reportedly remarked at a recent meeting among international educators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, students in other parts of the world have their "own realities," their "own context and culture." It would be absurd to ignore how significantly those realities shape students' participation in our virtual classrooms."

"In this course, we will examine the tools and practices associated with networked, open, and digital scholarship. In particular we will investigate the emergent practice of scholars' use of social media and online social networks for sharing, critiquing, improving, furthering, and reflecting upon their scholarship. Recent reports indicate that social media are at an early stage of adoption in academia, even though mindful participation in digital spaces is a significant skill for today's academic and knowledge worker. Participants will study scholarly presence online. They will examine how particular tools and practices may enhance the impact and reach of scholarship, and will explore the challenges and tensions associated with emerging forms of scholarship. By gaining an understanding of modern forms of scholarship, participants will be better equipped to use digital technologies and networked practices in their own work. This course will be of immediate relevance to doctoral students, academics, and knowledge workers. Faculty members who teach research methods courses and faculty development professionals may also find this course valuable."

Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

List of the most popular tech tools for education in 2012. It is interesting to see how some tools have dropped in the past year and how others have climbed. There are also some tools that I have never used before - worth checking out!

Provides examples of how and where flipped teaching is being used in higher education contexts.

Provides a bit of background on RSS and why you should use it and lots on using Feedly as your RSS reader. Note, at this time, Feedly doesn't work with Internet Explorer, but is compatible with Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

There are many gems in this brief piece, including the benefits of giving faculty the chance to fail, as well as a bit of an introduction to the tools Hypothes.is and Scalar.

"The following list offers 15 sources of quality digital content to use in your courses without worrying about the price tag."

Derek Bruff defines the "flipped classroom" and addresses the misconception that the flipped classroom requires heavy use of video.

"The TED-Ed team provides an in depth look at the powerful features of the newly-launched TED-ED Beta website. You'll learn how TED-Ed videos are created, how they are arranged, about the learning materials that surround each video, and how you can create customized or "flipped" lessons based on any TED-Ed video or any video on YouTube."

eBook that explains how to create a Google Account and how to use Google Docs. Google Docs are great for student collaboration on assignments without being in the same room.

Introduction on how to design surveys and survey questions to collect customer feedback. Includes: A quick handy table of Likert rating scale labels for measuring satisfaction, agreement, extent, helpfulness, interest, relative quantity, importance and quality rating. *best list I have seen so far* Initial design considerations Common survey question types and examples Common question design pitfalls Tips for technology-based surveys Initial design considerations Before you design your survey Clearly articulate the goals of your survey. Regarding copyright, "As a U.S. Government federal website, HowTo.gov is in the public domain. Materials are free to use, unless otherwise noted"

Interesting use of Diigo for social bookmarking with students in specific courses in higher education.

"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."

Interesting article that describes the student data being collected at some universities. The data is be used to "eAdvise" students into the proper programming and courses, which leads to higher retention rates. The data may be used to go as far as even monitoring card swipes and analyze student social interactions.

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