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This is a great article on Edutopia. It contains good practical ideas on how to use an online course's discussion forum.

Best practices, strategies and tips for successfully facilitating online discussion boards.

How to integrate technology into the classroom: PowerPoint, Blackboard, Video, iclickers, online discussions, ePortfolios, blended learning, survey tools, etc.

This site discusses improving education through the use of social media. The site contains helpful ideas, infographics, news and videos.

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"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.

Not only has the class been very helpful, but the ION Web page gives me much information on sample rubrics, and many other ideas on instructional strategies as I continue to enhance my teaching abilities in my online classes.

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

This blog lists ideas for teachers when using Diigo or delicious and discusses the differences in the two sites from a beginners point of view.

I know that most of the members of this group work in higher education. Some of us work in teacher preparation programs and need resources for K-12 teachers. I've found Edutopia to be a reliable resource. Their Technology Blogs have some thoughtful ideas that will help learners at the college level.

This article, which is easily found on Google, is nice for someone like me who is new to Twitter and has not thought of ways to use in class. It also give nice links to the ideas provided to better explain how to use the suggestion.

As a language instructor, I just love this idea of synchronous communication! :)

Maybe you don?t have time to sit down and sift through the latest education blogs for ideas and inspiration. If the thought of trying to carve out more h

Having used Twitter for the first time this week in our Technology Tools class, I am intrigued by its potential application to online classes. This article discusses some possible ideas.

This is a good resource. Thank you!

I share your sentiments about practical use in the classroom. Thanks for sharing.

I find this site interesting for generating ideas on writing. There are three tools and each serve different functions. Also easy to use by kids!

This was an interesting list that suggested social media tools to use as alternatives to those that dominate social interaction on the web. The idea behind the suggestions are that for many students Facebook and Twitter exist within a personal social sphere, and that offering a separate space for academic interaction can help preserve the distinction between the two. Tom addressed the benefits of that approach and reasons why it may be worth pursuing in his post this week in the Technology Tools class.

This is a good resource for teachers working with students with special needs and/or if you need good ideas to assist students who struggle in the educational setting.

There is a nice section listing some positive and negative aspects of Twitter that some may find useful along with some ideas of ways to incorporate it into educational settings.

I referenced this article in my Discussion post, but it's such a good one that I wanted it to be available here as well.

This journal article contains ideas of how instructors used Twitter in their classes. Tammy Miller