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"The situation: You've just been given your first 15-page college research paper assignment. Your professor wants you to use books and scholarly journals in writing your paper, and doesn't want you to rely solely on Google and Wikipedia to do the research. What do you do? You could call your parents or ask advice from a friend. But a far better idea would be to follow these 10 best tips, offered by visiting blogger Cheryl LaGuardia, research librarian at Harvard University's Widener Library"

This interview series and the community are devoted to providing an opportunity for those who care about education to share their voices and ideas with others. It's a place for thoughtful discussion on an incredibly important topic.

Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there's a good chance you're not using Google Docs to its fullest capability. We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

"This lively, interactive, 5 module course has been designed for educators who would like to learn new ways to become even more effective when implementing technology into their classroom and teaching practice. Each research-based module, which will take about an hour to complete, contains a rich variety of multimedia learning activities and resources including videos, surveys and links to additional readings. You'll see and hear teachers in action, listen to their ideas, learn tips, tools and classroom-ready strategies that will help you maximize learning outcomes and expand your knowledge of how to use technology to support instructional frameworks."

"Welcome to mobile learning from Oxford ELT where you'll find lots of ideas for making the most of tablets, smartphones and apps in your teaching. This page is for anyone who wants to find out more: You want to encourage your students to use smartphones for learning, rather than as a distraction. You have 'gone digital' and now only use tablets, smartphones and computers. You'd like to put forward a proposal to your Director to use mobile devices. You want to find out how to motivate your students, and wonder if m-learning might help."

Are you getting measurable, timely, benefits from your IT investment? Are your IT resources fully and effectively deployed? Are your information resources well managed? Are you driving your IT strategy, or is it driving you? This web, known as the "Information Management Body of Knowledge", is a collection of ideas and tools intended to assist anyone who is concerned to get the best out of their investment in information technology and the information systems that make it work. It emerged from research work undertaken in a partnership between the University of the Western Cape, and Cape Peninsula University of Techology (previously the Cape Technikon), both located in Cape Town, South Africa. It has been used in the context of business, public administration and community informatics, and the IMBOK has been adopted as a standard course text in South Africa, Europe and North America.

"The DIY Toolkit has been especially designed for development practitioners to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results."

Such a good idea to join this if you want to learn about how to use twitter for teaching and learning

"An evolution on the idea of MOOCs is the "selectively open online course" (or SOOC) - simply, a MOOC with an entrance requirement designed to reduce the "unwanted diversity." This could be proven competency (e.g., pass an entrance quiz), a credential (e.g., have a degree), or membership (e.g., be in the university's alumni network). The theory is that a more uniform student body will lead to improved peer-to-peer collaboration and higher learner outcomes."

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