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Piazza is designed to connect students, TAs, and professors so every student can get the help they need when they need it. Today, hundreds of thousands of students across hundreds of campuses are using Piazza for their classes. It warms me to think I started something that is impacting the way students learn and the way instructors teach.

Prezi designs and creates presentation software that is enabling millions of people to be great presenters.

visual of tools and blooms taxonomy

I am currently enrolled in both the Tech Tools course and the Instructional Design Course. This web page about where the different tech tools fit in a "Blooms Taxonomy" scheme is a great resource for both classes.

This is terrific. I am going to show it to the teachers at my school. It will help all of us think more clearly about all those tools.

This site has a great deal of information for teachers who are transitioning to the Online Classroom. I especially like the Instructional Design blogs that are listed on the site.

Overview/Introduction We've been waiting a long time for computers to dramatically change education, but for the most part, that promise remains unfulfilled. Unlike in the business world, where the computer quickly became a fixture on every desk and transformed both day-to-day tasks and the business landscape as a whole, computers have not transformed the goals of educators, or even the methods used to achieve those goals.

Focuses on the importance of web2.0 in educational networking.

Using Shared Online Video to Anchor Instruction: YouTube and Beyond

I am moving toward more tech and eventually considering textbook-free classes. Step one is trying a semester with Aplia, a text-linked software program that will allow me to entirely design the course using the online version of the text I selected for my students, complete with a grade book and assignment records for each student. I am excited to start using such a technology-intensive approach for my classes.

This is a good article which highlights the ways instructors can design the course to reduce cheating.

A great article on how to promote critical thinking through discussion question design and collaboration.

Free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education

Online teaching and learning materials

A must for anyone using technology in education

Using social networking to support learning different learning styles

An interesting article about social networking and constructivist learning theory.

Managing e-Learning Projects is extremely important for successful e-Learning course design. This article is the third in a series about e-Learning Project Management. Check it out and learn about the Stages of Effective eLearning Project Management and Skill Set Required for Managing eLearning Projects.

This blog designed and maintained by Prof. Steve Wheeler, offers some of the best insights on learning with and through technology, whilst combining research, theories and the practices of teaching and learning.

I have used this in my classes and love it! The free Poll Everywhere mobile app is perfect for responding to polls, presenting polls, and clicking through PowerPoint presentations. Use it to... 1.) Respond to polls: Audience members can use the app to respond to the presenter's questions live. 2.) Poll an audience: Presenters can ask the audience questions and display poll responses live. 3.) Navigate in Powerpoint: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote. Participants Audience members or students can easily respond to polls or vote using the app on a smartphone or tablet. Aside from the app, they can respond via web browser, text message, or Twitter. Presenters Professors, teachers and presenters can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple choice polls. Questions can be presented directly from the web or embedded in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Audience responses are displayed in real-time. Great for classroom participation, or gathering opinions from the audience. PowerPoint Remote Presenters using PowerPoint can use the Poll Everywhere mobile app as a presentation clicker, to navigate through your PowerPoint presentation with ease. It has a slick, streamlined design and a set of polling controls built-in. Key Features: * Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions. * Participants are automatically shown the presenter's current question, for quick and easy participation. * Watch results update live. * Click through a PowerPoint presentation with the included Presenter Remote feature.

What a great way to be able to asynchronously poll students and still allow them to remain anonymous. This also gives students to see how well their knowledge compares to other students. It also allows them to see if their way of thinking is similar to other students.

Otter processes your audio or video files - in real time or after they are created - and generates a text file with a transcript. It automatically recognizes and designates different speakers, and allows you to give them names before downloading the text file. The fee tier gives 600 minutes of transcription per month. I am uploading my lecture videos after they are generated, and posting the transcriptions in my LMS for students.