sowebedu is the short form of "Social Web in Education" and refers to the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 for teaching and learning. This wiki is created for the Share.TEC pilot Social Software and Web2.0 in Teacher Education and Teacher Training. It provides a platform for a community of practice for exploring and analysing the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 tools and services under real educational conditions

great news for Twitter fiction lovers. #VSS Anthology Volume 1 has just been published,

and some myth-busting lesson plans

inexpensive tools that you can use to create audio and video for your eLearning. Attend this Online Forum to examine the tools and techniques that will help you use media in your eLearning

A Solution Approach: Harden's Taxonomy of Curriculum Integration Building upon various earlier works on curriculum integration with more specific focus on school education, in 2000, Harden [4] proposed a taxonomy of curriculum integration wrt medical education. In my view, it is good model that can be used by all programs of higher education.  Harden has structured this taxonomy as an eleven stage ladder given below:

simple guidelines for creating instructional graphics and media for the widest possible audience of learners and learner-accessed devices.

The St. Kates Instructional Media group was created to share information about digital tools, resources, or general tips that can enhance learning at St. Kates. This page provides directions for getting best use of this group. To view the group, go to: http://groups.diigo.com/group/ins-media

Advantages of Diigo:
* Quickly save & share bookmarks
* Tag & annotate entries
* Automatic email updates
* Group members can evaluate entries by pressing a 'Like' button or attaching comments
* Ability to highlight and add sticky notes to webpages themselves

To get posting privileges if you do not have them, email: daamdur@stkate.edu to be added to the group.

Using Diigo
When viewing Bookmarks: If you find a bookmark valuable, please press 'Like' so others will recognize its value. You can also add comments to the bookmark entry.
Tip: When looking for items of interest, you can narrow the list by selecting a Tag from the list in the right-hand column (you may have to scroll down to see it).

When adding Bookmarks, please Tag them with the name of the CMS, and annotate them with short descriptions of content. Tip: Anything that is highlighted on a webpage when you make a bookmark will automatically show up in the Description field, and can be edited.

Important enhancement: Diigolet is a browser add-on that is strongly recommended to make posting and highlighting much faster. It only takes moments to install.
* At the top of the page, click Tools.
* On the new page, go to the left-hand sidebar and click on Diigolet.
* A page with simple directions for adding Diigolet to your active browser will appear.

To set Alerts: It is handy to receive email notification of new postings to the group, but annoying when they come too often. To set your Alert Preferences:
* Go to the St. Kates Instructional Media Group Bookmarks page: http://groups.diigo.com/group/ins-media
* In the right-hand sidebar, click on Alert settings
* You will be able to choose how often you wish to receive Alerts

graphic displays the learning objectives for the course, and connects the course assignments to the learning objectives.  Students can see-at a glance-that work none of course assignments are random or arbitrary (an occasional student complaint), but that each assignment links directly to a course learning objective.

The fastest way to create stylish real-time polls using mobile devices. Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere, and show results in graphs via PPT or web.

Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 5 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject.

Key Points: * Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. * Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students' prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences - all facilitated by engaging learners' senses through multimedia. * Higher education should stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices - to live up to the promise of mobile learning, students should use them as production devices.

Quality Matters created a set of forty specific elements, distributed across eight broad standards, by which to evaluate the design of online and hybrid courses. The web-based, fully interactive rubric is complete with annotations that explain the application of the standards and relationship between them.

a OneNote notebook that contains all the Access 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, and Word 2010 compatibility details that I could find on Office.com and TechNet

MediaInfo is free software that supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.

What this tool can do for you: * Help you determine the "fairness" of a use  * Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation. * Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records * Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels.

A small private college in New York's Adirondack Mountains has seen the number of returning students rise by 5 percent over the previous year through several "student success" initiatives, including the use of applications from Starfish Retention Solutions