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This is a terrific article sharing tips about implementing new practices in your classes. Great primer on how to avoid common pitfalls, and help increase your chances for success. May the odds be ever in your favor!

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.

There are benefits to newsrooms using solutions-based journalism, but it is not a cure-all for audience engagement. Read more -> The Engaging News Project provides news organizations research-based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways. I like this site to share with my students because they learn about new ways to learn about the new happening in major fields. My course is a research course, and I want my students to explore more things in there field. What ever it is that they want to be, this will give them an opportunity to learn about the new trends.

A majority of U.S. adults - 62% - get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Check out the new design and features of their new website. This is the future of information literacy.

"Contrary to popular belief, younger Internet users are actually more vigilant about protecting the information they share online than their older counterparts, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "

This article on Pod Casting News teacher readers how to create a pod cast by providing information on creating audio, converting the file format, publishing and creating a news feed.

Cautions about medical use of Social Media.

Myspace, the social media site that started it all, announced a new facelift Tuesday. The redesigned Myspace, which turned 9 this year, is now focused more on music and is even more integrated with Facebook and Twitter. According to the site's teaser page, the company is "hard at work building the new Myspace, entirely from scratch."

This week on New Tech City we're talking MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses that major universities and newly formed education companies are offering for FREE (and that's no acronym). Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe are taking these classes. Could this be the future of higher-level degrees?

Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin

Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin

Addresses new federal regulations regarding online learning

This is a brief description of three new federal regulations regarding online courses.

I thought a blog post about obsessing over Twitter news was appropriate for this week's topics!

Now I need a link for German pronunciation! This Twitter thing is one thing I know I'll never need to worry about. Reddit on the other hand...

Objectively covers broad range of international news

I hear complaints about the poor quality of student writing today as often as I read stories about the Internet causing the end of higher education as we know it (i.e., frequently). When those complaints come in the form of actual conversations with peers, instead of in print, I feel myself immediately put on the defensive.

Thanks for this post Heather. I liked that the instructor recognized that despite some challenges with using a new technique to promote his students' writing skills the energy that was expressed by his students far outweighed the "mess" that he dealt with the first time trying something new.

The lack of learning transfer is a common mantra in higher education. It's a good article for reflection. Although I've been a proponent of service learning, at the same time, I wasn't sure how students could or if they would transfer their experiences to the academic component. Now, I need to rethink my position on service learning and its impact on connected learning

This article describes the increased use in the eLearning industry to HTML5 as an authoring tool. Moving away from things like Adobe Flash has allowed new opportunities and avenues of creation possibilities to content developers. HTML5 has wide support across many different browsers and LMS platforms which makes the use of HTML5 an easy transition/addition. HTML5 does, however, have difficulty working with older browsers such as IE8. Using authoring tools such as Adobe Captivate 9 and Articulate Storyline makes HTML5 easy to use.

The use of new technology

This webpage has a list of Office Application blogs giving tips on how to do different skills. Learn something new for your classes!