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"Incorporating graphic organizers into the writing and learning process is a great way to get students to think outside the box and engage more willingly in the process."

Inspired by a "Read Freely" philosophy and a passion for innovation, Kobo is one of the world's fastest-growing eReading services. Read Freely stems from Kobo's belief that consumers should have the freedom to read any book, anytime, anyplace - and on any device. As a result, Kobo has attracted millions of readers from more than 170 countries and features one of the world's largest eReading catalogues with over 2.5 million eBook, newspaper and magazine titles.

"Welcome to the Learning Technologies blog from the staff of RHCHP Learning Technologies at Regis University, Denver Colorado. This blog deals with learning technologies but may include other topics loosely associated with technologies for home, school, and the workplace. We hope you log in frequently. Enjoy. "

"We are pleased to announce full Google Apps for Education Integration with Wikispaces Private Label. Wikispaces Private Label is the most effective way to help teachers and students collaborate, communicate and learn. And now you can have the power of Google Apps for Education tightly integrated with the classroom management, review, monitoring, and organization flexibility of Wikispaces."

"Continuing from last week's post about "The Gamification of Education", this week we bring you a guest post from Justin Marquis, who examines the why's and how's of incorporating game based learning elements into the higher education curriculum."

Metta (www.metta.io) is a digital storytelling tool that allows you to create lessons using audio, videos, and images from your computer or from the web. It is a great online app for creating short flipped or blended lessons for students to help them learn outside of the classroom. With this outstanding web application, teachers can easily create a digital content based story, supplemented with images and text. Teachers can also include poll questions in order to test the knowledge of students. So, with Metta, you can easily combine multimedia elements together to produce an awesome digital lesson.

As "nontraditional" students gradually become the majority, professors must adjust their thinking and teaching methods.

"By 2015 more end users will access the Internet through a mobile device than a PC, according to a new report from the International Data Corporation (IDC)."

From Nicole-Records audio from iPad while taking notes, time-stamps audio to notes. You can click on a word in your notes and hear the audio from right when you typed the word

This online session features Learning Design's own Nicole Croy! "Watch this session to learn about the efficient and cost-effective ways to implement video captioning solutions. We will also cover the basics of how to create closed captions, accessibility laws, captions formats including emerging formats for HTML5 and mobile, video player compatibility, and automated workflows with Kaltura."

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

A site created by a teacher for teachers that provides a fun way for students to learn grammar and writing skills. The site allows for students preferences in the content that keeps them interested and motivated.

"Idealware's new report, Infographics for Outreach, Advocacy, and Marketing: From Data to Design, is a guide to help you think through the process of understanding and creating infographics. In it, we cover what defines an infographic and help you create one that presents your data in a compelling and easy-to-understand way. We've also included a number of examples of infographics, both good and bad, to make the point clear."

University Branding has set-up the following site for stock Regis photo. You can obtain a download of a specific photograph by emailing the URL to Brett Stakelin.

"Google launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance. "We want to use this launch to show that Google believes it can contribute to technology in education," says Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig. "

University Brand Marketing is pleased to announce the release of the official Regis University Visual Style Guide and Writing Style Guide. Please reference these style guides to learn about Regis University brand criterion including, but not limited to: University logo and seal usage, typography, colors, imagery and writing standards. The Visual Style Guide and Writing Style Guide can be found on the One Regis | Branding Together blog at one.regis.edu.

University Brand Marketing is pleased to announce the release of the official Regis University Visual Style Guide and Writing Style Guide. Please reference these style guides to learn about Regis University brand criterion including, but not limited to: University logo and seal usage, typography, colors, imagery and writing standards. The Visual Style Guide and Writing Style Guide can be found on the One Regis | Branding Together blog at one.regis.edu.

"Information on the online video and multimedia resources available in the Regis University Library."

This resource was provided to Alex by Andy Dorfman

"So you're managing digital projects but don't know your from your ? Do you ever need to just change something small but can't wait for the geeks to sort it out for you? We know that feeling! That's why we made this cheat sheet for ourselves and we thought we'd share it… Enjoy!"

SEC is using this tool to do online "carousel" activities. In a face-to-face classroom a facilitator might have large piece of paper taped up all over the room and learners would walk about adding their notes under different topics. This tool serves this purpose virtually.

Really cool tool!