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Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication: Tools for Collaboration This page was authored by Byron Kask (2009) and revised by Sarah Wood (2010), and Brett Williams (2014)

New tools have been released recently that demonstrate that texting can, in fact, be used for educational purposes.

Learning new things about bookmarks.

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

A wonderful tool to create historical timelines.

Are you looking to create interactive visualizations of data? ChartsBin "is a web-based data visualization tool that will allow everyone to quickly and easily create rich interactive visualizations with their own data. You can then share your interactive visualizations with others by embedding them in websites, blogs or sharing via Facebook or Twitter. We're focused on building the most exciting and engaging destination for statisticians, and computer scientists in the world."

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together to share glimpses of the past and build up the story of human history. It's a great tool for collaborative classroom work.

This is another bookmark tool

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

Organize your social media accounts

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.

Mostly about High School but I think still pertinent.

This is an interesting article about 8th graders. It applies also to most of high school students also, but I believe that mature adults can use it as a useful tool that enhances education. For many it is nothing more than an escape from the duties of the real world. I have found it to be both "All about me" and informative. Social media does need to be taught in the classroom if it's going to used.

about creating learning spaces based on verbs, not tools

tools and constructivism

Love that the "practical descriptions of constructivist learning" listed in the article "[C]onstructivist learning should engage students in meaningful learning and ... the critical features are that the learning should be ... * Active and manipulative, engaging students in interactions and explorations with learning materials and provid[ing] opportunities for them to observe the results of their manipulations * Constructive and reflective, enabling students to integrate new ideas with prior knowledge to make meaning and enable learning through reflection * Intentional, providing opportunities for students to articulate their learning goals and monitor their progress in achieving them * Authentic, challenging and real-world (or simulated), facilitating better understanding and transfer of learning to new situations * Cooperative, collaborative, and conversational, providing students with opportunities to interact with each other to clarify and share ideas, to seek assistance, to negotiate problems, and discuss solutions."

Here is a very long list of tools for web 2.0.

Has anyone used this software? Wondering how we can use this to create focus of a specific action area in the animation. Any other similar tool?

I love snagit- my favorite tool when i want a fast screen capture!

This brief article addresses the effectiveness of cell phones in the classroom, among other great tools. This particular article begins on page 4 of the document.

Here is a tool which will work for larger groups, as for example if we wanted to survey all 3,000 first year English students in one poll group