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This is a free App that is available through the App Store or Google Play. It allows you to get a daily teaching tip delivered to your smart phone or tablet . The tips are brief and to the point, each tip provides a nugget of wisdom regarding assignment strategies, student engagement, classroom management, instructional vitality, and much more. The free app lets you: Get one tip every day (365/year) Specify the time of day you want to receive your tip Share favorite tips on social media or email Send your own tips to the editor

Isra Garcia writes: In the past, I've written about how I use LinkedIn and also offered 13 fast tips to optimize your profile. But there's still so much more to learn about the platform. Below, you will find eight tips for making the most of your time on LinkedIn. Getting the most out of LinkedIn

Tips for Establishing a Rapport with Online Students

Tips for Using Skype in the Classroom

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Found a great article with helpful tips on using technology tools. Enjoy!

Stress management tips give you skills to effectively deal with stress and take control. Life can be challenging sometimes! The bills might need paying, you may feel overworked and pressured with a to-do list as long as your arm, or family responsibilities or concerns over the economy may be weighing you down.

The tips are common sense applying to any kind of instruction but serve as a good checklist.

Great tips!!

Tips for using Social Media in Higher Education

Don't mind if I "tweet" about this. This is spot-on!

The post looks at the expanding role of social media in higher education. It addresses 6 tips to build institutional reputation and foster a sense of community.

Great article on getting students interactive and motivated in class and in coursework.

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!

List.ly, according to co-founder Nick Kellet, is "true social curation with lists as a metaphor." List.ly is all about creating and curating lists. You can create lists of tips or lists of websites or lists of anything you can think of that your potential clients would be interested in.

List.ly is an excellent tool for curating web resources. You can then embed these lists into your blog, wiki, or content pages in your institutions learning management system. Other list.ly users can even request to add resources to your curated list. You can sign up for list.ly and it's free.

Tips on making e-books for online learning.

What a great way to customize the reading assignments and resources for students in our online courses. This seems like it could also save money on textbook costs for our students.

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

This offers tips for creating cool infographics

Follow this blog for tips, templates, and discussions related to e-learning.

Here's a free PowerPoint template I built for a recent workshop. I used it to show how to create interactive conversations in PowerPoint using hyperlinks. In this example it's a simple back and forth conversation. This free template could be used as a way to share manager/employee information or perhaps as an FAQ interaction.

Relevant to this week's topic, this short article underlines the usefulness of Twitter in facilitating out-of-classroom interest.

There are now so many social media platforms available for libraries to participate in, but it's sometimes difficult to get a handle on how these channels