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Social Media Facebook and Twitter may be ubiquitous, but there are many other social media tools out there that can enhance teaching and learning. Here, three educators share their favorites. Photo: Shutterstock.com Social media has changed the way people communicate and share information in their personal and professional lives.

"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

"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. "

New technology allows readers to share comments and notes about what they're reading online.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

Love Dropbox! This has been so helpful to me when I was working on my dissertation and also for preparation for courses and sharing them to students and colleagues.

Blackboard modules shared to support open education model.

A description of Diigo

This is a great resource for the instructor and to share with students on how to use diigo.

October 19, 2011 "If seeing, hearing, or sharing with your online students could help the learning process, then Google+ Hangouts could be a great, engaging venue for your students." This site outlines 6 practical uses for Google Hangouts in an educational setting. Hangouts are great for small meeting of 10 or less. In this site, there are screenshots to explain the Hangouts with extras and screen sharing. This would be a great way for students to collaborate on a project.

Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today. We've combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share.

Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today. We've combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share.

Great free alternatives to Skype that offer video calling, voice calling, messaging and file sharing services!

Video to share with students for a reminder of basic privacy awareness

This LibGuide shares a variety of IL tools and ideas for using technology in our classes.

Excellent resource for copyright free images, videos, and music

Thanks for the website Mark... I use a variety of images in my PowerPoints, so this is certainly a great resource...

Thank you for sharing. I used https://unsplash.com/ a lot. Now I will add it to my toolbox.

Inspiring videos!

Thanks for sharing this treasure trove of inspiration Dan!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. I could definitely use the sites here. One I'm intrigued by is the Book Creator and the Meme generator! Both can definitely be used to spice up writing classes.

Thanks for sharing. I am always looking for new apps to create my video lessons. This is great source of information.

Great tools for student to create in the online course.

I use Padlet all the time in my class for a quick sentence or paragraph-level group writing activity - it's easy to share with your students and you can embed it very easily! http://padlet.com/salinmiso/8tihmalkbcyl

This is a video I have for my students. Since I had to post something, and I have students use this, I thought I would use it here.

Very informative. Thank you for sharing! Any way to reduce the background noise in the video? Also love the introduction too!

Great tool to teach complicated procedures.

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!

It wasn't so long ago that scientists had only a couple of ways to share their work with the world: publishing in a research journal or presenting at a scientific meeting. This often limited exposure to a relatively small sphere of scientists.

"It's Super Easy to Create These Simple 'Bookmarks' so Viewers Can Pop to Different Section of Your Video"

I like this! Very helpful and I will share this with my students.

@ionstudent I agree. In fact, I just learned about this today. This can come in handy for instructor-created videos, but I can see students taking advantage of this for video projects as well.