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I thought it would be interesting (and maybe ironic) to post an article about diigo on diigo.

What is Diigo? Diigo stands for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your 'favourites' online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this.

Google Apps is beginning to revolutionize education. With its highly collaborative, online/offline format - and its attractive price tag (free!) - many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools. The way that Google Apps is interactive and easy to share is powerful.

Very useful videos, some long and some shorter, to help build lessons around or to supplement a lesson one has already created. TED Talks is useful as well, but this education version of it offers more potential for use in a class.

This is the summary that comes with the article. Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am also preparing an ebook about it which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ?

Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am also preparing an ebook about it which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ?

I could see using this in my College Success course. That class lends itself more to discussion in this forum.

The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. I like this guy and joined his resource group. I encourage you to check out some of the great ideas for brining technology into the classroom.

CourseSites by Blackboard is a free learning management system for K12 and Higher Ed Instructors enabling blended & eLearning. I have used this tool a few times before. This is great because it is exactly like BlackBoard. With CourseSites you can do trial and error, and it's ok because students will not see it. Also, CourseSites allow you to add students, if you do not have BlackBoard or any other online learning site that your campus offers.

This is an interesting article and shows how social media is being used in the accounting profession. It's hard to believe the past of that profession used to be tons of green ledger paper and physical filing cabinets.

I never thought Snapchat would work in a classroom setting. I think it's time for me to stop being too old school and meet my students in the middle and allow them to enjoy my messages in whatever reasonable way that is necessary.

This helps. It gives a good path to how to use this teaching and learning tool.

A survey of literature regarding use of Twitter in the higher education classroom finds substantial support and good advice regarding its usefulness in pedagogy. More research is needed to determine if Twitter can affect active learning, class participation, and learning outcomes.

A survey of literature regarding use of Twitter in the higher education classroom finds substantial support and good advice regarding its usefulness in pedagogy. More research is needed to determine if Twitter can affect active learning, class participation, and learning outcomes.

Twitter is experimenting with increasing its character count.

Every instructor who has designed his or her own course and taught it has actually conducted two rounds of informal usability tests. For the first round, you were the user, and in the second, your students were. What is usability testing? It is simply a process of observing how users interact with something you have ...

The particular workshop recording that interests me is the one on using peer review options for online teaching. This is something I'm trying to incorporate more of, and it was helpful to hear about how other teachers incorporate it into their courses!

This article describes the use of social media as a bridge between students, teachers, and the online course. Many students are currently using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The challenge for instructors is to learn how to leverage that as as an opportunity to create value for the student, the course, and for the instructor. The growing trend of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is commonplace among many campuses and it is now becoming common for institutions to require students to supply their own technology tools.

Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Web 2.0 Learning Styles describes how technology Web 2.0 tools are used to enhance students learning. Furthermore, Howard Gardner's learning styles are discusses as well and his theory of Multiple Intelligence. Finally, the main characteristics of the Web 2.0 learners are summarized. In addition to theories of multiple intelligences and learning styles there are issues related to learner personalities. The widely accepted traditional model of education too often fails to consider all these areas. Some teachers, however, address the kind of senses (auditory, visual) the learner uses, the learner's aptitude (Theory of Multiple Intelligences), and the personality type. Alicja Haptas #TT1721

This looks really interesting, Alicja. I hope to read it more closely over the weekend.

I hope you will enjoy it!

Reaching agreement on the convenience of online classes is easy, but arguing in favor of a synchronous learning experience in a virtual classroom is harder. Debunking the top 10 myths about synchronous online teaching helps refute the arguments against it, while the transformational nature of online teaching can convert skeptics into supporters.

Reaching agreement on the convenience of online classes is easy, but arguing in favor of a synchronous learning experience in a virtual classroom is harder. Debunking the top 10 myths about synchronous online teaching helps refute the arguments against it, while the transformational nature of online teaching can convert skeptics into supporters.

I can't believe that people still believe all these myths. However I have colleagues that still resist even limited technology in hybrid classes.

A good synopsis of 20 Web 2.0 tools that can complement teaching.

There are definitely many teaching tools to choose from. This article just scratches the surface... Dawn

Love the description of all the items we are learning in class. This helped a lot in putting 2 and 2 together. Thank you for posting this. Kathy

Yes, there are a ton of great ed-tech tools out there, but which ones should you be adopting for your classroom? This article gave me some great ideas.

Ranzie, Thank you for sharing this. Loved it. I am still learning about much of this content and how it can be utilized in my classroom

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the May 2017 issue of Teaching for High Potential. Research from Mathematica and CREDO have shown disappointing results for online schools, though the studies do not address how well or poorly they serve gifted students.

I did a generic search for online learning, and this was the first result. It is interesting that Harvard has vested so much in its online presence. At one point the online certificate was described as Harvard "branded," which made me cringe a bit.