Office Mix allows you to turn your PowerPoints into interactive online lessons or presentations. Office Mix provides great tutorials on how to do basic functions within Mix!
Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about ways her office can help connect higher education professionals with one another to share best practices for using technology, something that is not happening now.
Millennials live and breathe on social media, so teachers are learning how to incorporate the medium into the classroom successfully. In doing so, teachers not only encourage students to engage actively in the material, but they also provide online communities for students that might not exist for them in real life.
Suggestions include: having students use Twitter, Facebook and Flickr to share work, using hashtags to live tweet, requiring students to blog, using LinkedIn to reach out to experts, using Google Hangouts for virtual office hours, post assignments and messages in Edmondo, conducting class in Second Life.
Here is the link to Columbia University's website that covers copyright issues and compliance. It was brought to my attention by Jeffrey Bathe. It is a great resource to check out and refer back to.
See Best Practices tagged by Use Categories: Medical, MBA Programs, Engineering, LMS Integration, Professional Development, Blended Online/Onsite Events, Online Events/Communities, Virtual Office Hours/Tutoring, Staff/Administration, Meeting Collaboration. *Elluminati* (Power User) Slideshare of Higher Education Case Studies (begins @ p 68) shows exceptional applications of Elluminate Live and identifies benchmark institutions for collaboration, mentoring, or peer review. I plan to add SLOAN-C to my PLN Personal Learning Network.