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Bloomberg is a premier site for business and financial market news. It delivers world economic news, stock futures, stock quotes, & personal finance advice. Great site for following financial, news and investing. I use and utilize the site an an everyday bookmark.

In my search for good audio tools, I found UJAM, a free tool for recording your voice, creating a song, converting your voice to an instrument...you name it. You can see a beta walk through on YouTube, but basically, you sign up, record into your computer's microphone, and make a few manipulations--presto, a song. You can edit chords, the song melody, add instruments, etc. Or you can turn your voice into an instrument! This might be a good tool for musicians, music teachers, and certainly for budding rock stars! Maybe it would be good for unique exercise in a poetry class...the spoken word as song.

Very interesting article on how to use analytics to improve course design.

The Horizon Report is useful for educators because of the predictions it has made about digital technology which have aready come to pass.

This article talks about what a Wiki is and why it is a great tool to use for our classes.

A commercial response to the problem of unwanted publicity in the age of social media. I haven't used this site, but thought it worth sharing.

Many of us in TT1421 have concerns about the adequacy of privacy protection in the social media world.

I hope this is working. I've bookmarked this to my diigo but it doesn't seem to link to my groups. Is there something I need to do to link it to my groups?

"Move over, Facebook-if you teach middle or high schoolers, you know that Instagram is one of the most popular social media channels for teens and tweens today. And while it may not seem like it at first, there are many applications for Instagram in the classroom." The applications can go beyond high school age students.

College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, new research shows. Because it is difficult to demonstrate that texting alone can have a direct impact on students' cognitive learning, researchers used path model analysis to describe the relationships between texting, as a "mediator" or intervening variable, and cognitive learning.

February 2009 | Volume 66 | Number 5 How Teachers Learn Pages 34-38 Learning with Blogs and Wikis Bill Ferriter Technology has made it easy for educators to embrace continual professional development. Few ideas about teachers' professional growth resonate with me more than those of Richard Elmore, professor of educational leadership at Harvard, who has gone as far as to argue that school structures make learning for adults unlikely at best and nothing short of impossible at worst. In a 2002 report for the Albert Shanker Institute, Elmore wrote, As expectations for increased student performance mount and the measurement and publication of evidence about performance becomes part of the public discourse about schools, there are few portals through which new knowledge about teaching and learning can enter schools; few structures or processes in which teachers and administrators can assimilate, adapt, and polish new ideas and practices; and few sources of assistance for those who are struggling to understand the connection between the academic performance of their students and the practices in which they engage. So the brutal irony of our present circumstance is that schools are hostile and inhospitable places for learning. They are hostile to the learning of adults and, because of this, they are necessarily hostile to the learning of students. (pp. 4-5)

Technology has made it easy for educators to embrace continual professional development. Few ideas about teachers' professional growth resonate with me more than those of Richard Elmore, professor of educational leadership at Harvard, who has gone as far as to argue that school structures make learning for adults unlikely at best and nothing short of impossible at worst.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

This is a rather lengthy guidebook that I came across while researching this week's topic. It touches on many of the issues we've been dealing with in our course, but also includes tips and strategies for blended courses. I thought it'd be a good resource for anyone interested, as it summarises key points on the use of technology in higher education.

I'd chosen accessibility tools as my elective for the scrapbook, so I thought I'd share this resource which includes numerous links that contain useful information, as well as software that can be used to ensure that your course is as accessible as possible. It also includes some relevant legal information that could also come in handy! Hope you'll find it handy..

If you haven't seen this, it is a safer place to post educational videos you make for class. It is also a great place to search for related media to use in class. You can set up an account so that only certain people can see your videos if you want.

A free community for sharing instructional videos and content for teachers and students. We are an education focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.

One of the reasons why I did not dwell a lot on the topic of RSS feeds on " 23 Excellent Tools for Teacher's Professional Development " is because I was planning a separate post for it alone. So what the heck is RSS feed all about and what importance does it have for me as a teacher ?

I created this webpage for an in-service I presented to my colleagues at a faculty development day. It offers several simple ways to integrate technology into lessons, with a focus on revivifying those lessons we get tired of teaching over and over. I hope you may find it useful!

This is the first of a four-part colloquy of articles . Each piece has been contributed by authors who have intimate experience with the struggles, failures, and successes of online learning programs.

Arizona State University (ASU) developed eAdvisor (an advising solution) based on developments in computer technology and data analytics. It provides students with course maps, which courses should be taken and in what sequence which helps keep of students success. It also shows career opportunities and has shown positive effect on student success.

"Social media is crucial not only because it provides a fast way to share information, but also because it makes faculty workloads more transparent." This is a great article for those considering ways to share the wonderful work and achievement of both faculty and students. Karen Patterson