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This bookmark is for my TT1431 course this summer. I not sure yet how this tool works yet. Maxi

Posted: Like all college and university faculty, August means finalizing fall syllabi and lesson plans, and pre-reading articles for fall courses. For many professors, this process includes thinking (or rethinking) on how to leverage social media to engage students in the semester's learning.

Having experimented with social media for learning -- especially Twitter -- across my courses, I am convinced that social media offers powerful opportunities to connect with students, by providing new ways for them to own the learning....

A list of tools for teachers looking to incorporate technology in the classroom. 50 tools divided into four categories.

This is amazing! Thanks a mil... Bookmarking it straightaway!

I think this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.

I think this will be helpful for f2f classes as well as online classes. Enjoy!!

O thy virtues, thou blog and bloggers. Seest thou this day the new dimension that thou hast brought to mankind and to pets. I tell you, this is fast education

This is a great primer, from Stephen Downes, on making blogging a part of the blogger's daily routine. See what you think - Donna Rubinson

Relevant to this week's topic, this short video explains what makes a good podcast (and I completely disagree with the commenter who says that podcasts should be rambling and silly--those types of podcasts are very annoying!).

Piazza is designed to connect students, TAs, and professors so every student can get the help they need when they need it. Today, hundreds of thousands of students across hundreds of campuses are using Piazza for their classes. It warms me to think I started something that is impacting the way students learn and the way instructors teach.

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.

Are we providing as 21st century education if we don't teach how to use these new forms of communication?

I think it depends on the course and the course learning objectives. Social networking may not be a tool that aids in encoding course content and thus, would be inappropriate to include.

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.

This report defines the google generation and discusses how students and researchers, search for the information they need. While not specifically a techtools article, it is important for instructors to understand students may not have the information literacy skills that we think they have!

Here's to thinking outside the box......

Wonderful collection of articles, tips & links for teaching. Way cool! 

The word "nerdy" make me think of Weird Al Yankovich's "White and Nerdy". Thanks for sharing this@

It seems in the twenty-first century new learning technologies are appearing every day for teachers to think about. With the advent of technology across all fields of learning, the ways in which learners store and retrieve information for further use has dramatically changed.

The statistical software language R is open-source with free download for Windows PCs. It's a bit cumbersome to learn with the help manuals running to 4,000 pages of "stream of consciousness" thinking. However, it's very powerful, and will readily do things that (say) Excel cannot do. Scripts can be saved to Word documents for later re-use.