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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. It provides educators with access to images, videos, music, and graphic all with less restrictive rights for using the material. For example, you go right from Creative Comments to Flickr images that you can use. The one caveat while searching for content, be careful not to use a different search term, because you will be searching in the regular libraries. When want search for a different, go back to Creative Commons and search from there.

The underuse of video in post-secondary online learning Video is not being used enough in online learning in post-secondary education. When used it is often an afterthought or an 'extra', rather than an integral part of the design, or is used merely to replicate a classroom lecture, rather than exploiting the unique characteristics of video.

Very interesting article on how to use analytics to improve course design.

The Horizon Report is useful for educators because of the predictions it has made about digital technology which have aready come to pass.

For those of us who use apple products, this short article list ten best apps for use on the iphone, ipad, and ipod.

Based on a list by Chris Brogan - 50 ideas for using Twitter

A short article listing 4 benefits of using smartphones in the classroom. While I'm still not totally convinced, some good points are made here. The issue I don't ever seem to see addressed in articles like this, though, is how to keep students from going to facebook or their texts after using the phone for a learning purpose.

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/10/balancing-advantages-disadvantages-student-social-media-use/ "In " Only Disconnect," Andrew Reiner, writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, lamented the state of American youth, particularly their preoccupation with social media. By the end of his article, Reiner advocated for social media Sabbaths, in which students would disconnect from their networks in order to more deeply engage with each other and their academic pursuits.

An article on Twitter for teachers, from Edudemic, a site that distributes stories around teaching, learning, and the impact of technology on education.

In addition to the comment that populated itself below, I want to add that this link contains a list of etiquette rules for Twitter that I think are very useful for a newbie. Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here's a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic's archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts.

A very thorough list on how to use Twitter for educational purposes!

Found some of the uses quite interesting

Comprehensive list with a brief description of how each tool can help to enhance learning through interaction and collaboration

This is a very good list.

Useful information for instructors

Nice article that discusses how students learn and how they engage with social media.

Intro to Twitter & social media concepts for use in CME. Follow us at http://twitter.com/EinsteinMed. Related video interviews at end of presentation and at http://bit.ly/OW5wiT and http://bit.ly/TWuZXP

This blog provides some suggestions for using YouTube in the classroom. It also describes other educational video resources.

Self-explanatory title!

Resource that relates to our MVCR Tech Tools readings and assignments.

Many ideas--from basic (such as sorting) to complex, creative ways to exchange ideas and information

Some of these blogs can be useful in helping us create new ideas for our courses or just to see what others are doing.

Is privacy concerns stopping you from using social media in your courses?

New tools have been released recently that demonstrate that texting can, in fact, be used for educational purposes.

Research on how faculty in higher education use social media.