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Addresses the popular conception of learning styles and the lack of empirical support for teaching to students' styles. Touches on the role of metacognition in learning. The references constitute a short list of key readings on the topic.

Melissa, I will definitely check this article out! Learning styles is my favorite concept!

I found this source and it has tons of url's to even more info on how to best use twitter in the classroom.

An interesting list of ways to use twitter for education.

This online article listed 10 tips for using social media to maintain social connections during the emergency transition to online education during COVID-19 pandemic. These tips are still helpful for post-pandemic online teaching.

I find this article (based on a video that is also there) very interesting. The author goes through a list of online resources that people can use to find ways to learn languages online. It even offers a link to CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Learning Instruction Consortium) reviewed course.

Great lists of Web apps for the classroom - categorized!

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.

When You need to Give a Persuasive Speech or Your students need a Topic for a Persuasive speech you can pick off of the list of 105 great Topics.

A great starting point for MOOCs! A great resource about MOOCs as well as lists of many, many, many classes offered.

Another list, but this is for the college 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.