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Learnist was initially developed for K-12 teachers and students, allowing users to create "learn boards"

Teachers connect with classrooms around the world

FREE RESOURCES AND LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

Any teacher wanting to create their own illustrations or graphics for their class should watch this video. It breaks down complicated images into simple steps that can be created in Powerpoint.

Tips on how to flip your classroom from a high school anatomy & physiology teacher.

This blog provides an excellent example of how diigo and jing may be used as tools to make grading assignments more efficient.

A word or phrase preceded by a "#." How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets-and thus lots of "noise." A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase.

Really useful! I'm still, however, not convinced that Twitter can be useful for much else than brainstorming.. Thanks though!

The main argument stems from the fact that the students (and most of the teachers) are already there. Facebook has 1.1 billion users, and despite reports that young people are drifting away from Facebook in favour of mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, you'd be hard pressed to find a teenager in the UK without an account.

Years of helping faculty pass to the dark side of online education have taught me a few simple rules that I brow beat (in a collegial way) into all new online teachers.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that social media has changed more than just how we pass the time, it has now infused itself into formal learning channels. Although adoption is slow (for instance, only 15% of teachers find value in Facebook, Wiki, and other social networks), time will only show that it will rise. I think that the integration of social media in higher education has its benefits and challenges... however I can say that undisputedly it is one of the better ways of increasing communication between academics and students.

This is a good resource for teachers working with students with special needs and/or if you need good ideas to assist students who struggle in the educational setting.

visual of tools and blooms taxonomy

I am currently enrolled in both the Tech Tools course and the Instructional Design Course. This web page about where the different tech tools fit in a "Blooms Taxonomy" scheme is a great resource for both classes.

This is terrific. I am going to show it to the teachers at my school. It will help all of us think more clearly about all those tools.

article on types of online teaching tools

Diigo's latest upgrade has made it all the rage. My twitter is full of diigo related tweets and many, many of the blogs that I read contain posts and comments about this excellent web application.

Thanks for the post Rick - Twitter was a breeze in comparison to Diigo. Maybe I'll come around. :-)

ReadWriteWeb published this list in August of 2010 - interesting and I can definitely see the potential in the tools and tech they featured! I'll be looking into Wikispaces, VoiceThread, and SlideShare which I have not previously heard about.

This article provides a list of ten strategies that online teachers need to develop to be efficient. Some very good points.

Great article Sue... I'm bookmarking it!

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