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tells very quickly what twitter is about.

Slide show about using Diigo

Website about how to add a presentation, quiz, poll, music, etc.

"Cheat Sheet" for the "Dummies" Book.....

This is a nice cheat sheet for prospective students who are interested in learning more about online education.

Diigo's latest upgrade has made it all the rage. My twitter is full of diigo related tweets and many, many of the blogs that I read contain posts and comments about this excellent web application.

Thanks for the post Rick - Twitter was a breeze in comparison to Diigo. Maybe I'll come around. :-)

"With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install"

We are trying to grow awareness of the College of Lake County library activities by blogging about recent events.

Just a thought about how to use Skype in the classroom.

ReadWriteWeb published this list in August of 2010 - interesting and I can definitely see the potential in the tools and tech they featured! I'll be looking into Wikispaces, VoiceThread, and SlideShare which I have not previously heard about.

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools blog about ClassTools.net - Free Flash for Online Teaching

Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about ways her office can help connect higher education professionals with one another to share best practices for using technology, something that is not happening now.

Classroom assessment is both a teaching approach and a set of techniques. The approach is that the more you know about what and how students are learning, the better you can plan learning activities to structure your teaching. The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.

A presentation about where these learners spend their time

Interesting article about what holds us back from incorporating technology into the classroom

This is a free online whiteboard where students can collaborate on chemistry and math problems without worrying about typing symbols. Also students can work on group projects together.

very cool. that's neat that's it's free. I need to play around with it a bit to get used to the interface, but I might try it out.