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This is an interesting article that discusses the importance of creating "community" with social media and how it's important to incorporate into the classroom. The startling statistic that the authors cite is that 96% of students are using at least 1 form of social media.

Excellent resource for copyright free images, videos, and music

Thanks for the website Mark... I use a variety of images in my PowerPoints, so this is certainly a great resource...

Thank you for sharing. I used https://unsplash.com/ a lot. Now I will add it to my toolbox.

Integrating slack, a synchronous or asynchronous chat tool, into the higher ed classroom

The article reflects on the divide between students and instructors with respect to social media and technology.

Guidelines for Building Games for Classrooms

Fun technology tools that enhance learning mathematics.

Great lists of Web apps for the classroom - categorized!

Great free tool to get ALL students engaged in class! Saves answers online to allow graded attendance and participation too!

With the advance of web 2.0 technologies, there emerged a wide range of educational tools that we can use with our students in and outside the classroom.Collaborative web tools is one example. Using such websites, teachers will be able to help in holding online and real-time discussions with their students, help them in their projects and assignments, guide their learning, do back-channeling, and synchronously moderate discussion threads and many more. We have prepared for you a list of such tools that you can use with your students, check it and share with us what you think about it.

Quizalize Premium is Free if your school has closed due to Covid-19. Create fun quizzes for use in the classroom or remotely.

Some good ideas on how to change up the online classroom.

I have been a longtime fan of Robert and his work on grading, flipped learning, and integration of technology into the classroom.

Check out Kahoot! It is a great way to use technology in a F2F classroom. It is an interactive quiz that promotes student engagement as well as checks students' understanding.

I love Kahoot!

Reference on Social media use in the classroom

Many regard Twitter as quite a useless social media sharing portal. Some have this negative opinion, mainly because of the fact Twitter allows you to "tweet" or post only 140 characters in length. This length equals the text of a regular SMS, and for some this is simply not enough.

I found a good list of how one teacher uses Twitter in the classroom. Personally, I love the idea of a hashtag for a specific class.

Over 53 million usable free media files!

Images for faculty and student use in the classroom with easy to read and understand licensing.

Or classroom. Digital Flipbooks like "Flipsnack" are an interesting way to create online content that connects learners with innovation. Through virtually flipping pages you can add .pdf's, url's, meme's, gifs, and other digital content to be stored in one virtual textbook. This would be great for manuals, textbooks, or any type of file sharing.

I found this plug-in for Moodle that allows real-time sharing of multi-media such as chats, your screen/desktop, whiteboards, presentations, and audio/video. Appears to be an option for incorporating synchronous activities and communication.

EFL Resource