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I came across this really cool website of open educational resources. Have fun sharing and learning!

The article discusses the paradigm shift in learning styles and approaches using the web resources. Personal learning environments and internet sifting for content is discussed as well.

Institutions of higher education have witnessed a proliferation of online courses in the past several decades. Culture and the impact of it must be considered.

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How to use itunes to post presentations for students

A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows. Hope you all find this a good link! Page

Try this 20 free tools for awesome prseentation

This article delves into the question of where Clickers as an Active Learning Tool stacks up.

"EmergingEdTech" Engaging students and enhancing learning outcomes with Internet & Instructional Technologies. This site has lots of ideas for implementing instructional technologies and tools to make learning more engaging and productive for students and instructors, including social media.

Article from April 2013 in Ed Tech Review that shares some pros and cons of using Social Media in education.

Greetings all! I choose this url because I had to many windows open to do anything else. I have this all together now, I think. My correct blog name is rmichellewalton.wordpress.com I am now seeing how important technology is to education. This has truly been a teachable moment for me. As I become more and more familiar with technology, I will begin to gradually incorporate it into my classes. Twitter for Academia has opened my eyes to another way to facilitate the educational process. This is a great article. Here's the url. http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

Benefits of Teaching Online

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.

A quick pdf comparing prezi and powerpoint with thoughts concerning when to use each option.

This article has quite a few quick and easy tip on how to incorporate technology into a classroom.

This page provides some unique tech tools we did not cover in class, and they are free!

Here is a sample of the Prezi that I developed for students in my African American Studies 101 course. I hope that you find it intersting.