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As a social media platform, Twitter is extremely easy to use and quick to adopt. Users distribute short snippets of information in a dynamic stream that is accessed on a desktop or mobile device. Twitter's format options allow for a variety of ways to communicate. Users demonstrate transliteracy skills when composing tweets using #hashtags, @messaging,...

Accessibility to E-Learning for Persons with Disabilities: Strategies, Guidelines, and Standards

Over 100 third-party tools and services are used by faculty and students in ASU Online courses. Collaborative partnerships are formed in order to explore ways to use the technology to improve online teaching and learning experiences.

Yes, there are a ton of great ed-tech tools out there, but which ones should you be adopting for your classroom? One of the best ways to narrow your choices is to get in touch with experts. I sent an email out to ed-tech experts (and great teachers) asking for their recommendations.

Prezi is an online presentation software that is a zoomable canvas which allows you to create non-linear presentations.

Once learned can be a effective tool for introducing concepts using visuals and interactivity.

Prezi is great tool to create/do your presentation.

Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful. It's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand. Writing about the success of a Stanford online computer science course in the Wall Street Journal, Holly Finn implies that free Web-based education is about to or should replace elite universities: It's a thrilling collegiate coup.

This was really interesting...there are so many free online courses. The issue seems to be quality and accreditation.

Nineteen suggestions for online student-created content in ESL classes, and the best tools to use for each.

I am using VoiceThread for students to create digital stories to share about their research projects. Other students will peer review, comment, and write a reflection. Use VoiceThread Search Box terms "online teaching" to find Projects created for Online Courses.

College course work is meant to be challenging. The content and the vocabulary used are often unfamiliar to many students. For at-risk learners, the challenges are even greater.

6 universities participating to crete a database that measures 33 variables for the online coursework of 640,000 students - tracks student performance and retention across demographics.

A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers To Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows. Hope you all find this a good link! Page

Try this 20 free tools for awesome prseentation

Innovative Teaching Exchange Welcome to the MAA Online Innovative Teaching Exchange! The purpose of the Exchange is to allow people teaching mathematics at the college level to share new methods they have tried, invented, or discovered, which they feel help the students learn better and/or more easily.

Resource that relates to our MVCR Tech tools readings and assignments.

Eminent Domain The power to take private property for public use by a state, municipality, or private person or corporation authorized to exercise functions of public character, following the payment of just compensation to the owner of that property.

A very thorough list on how to use Twitter for educational purposes!

Found some of the uses quite interesting

This site is an another example of ways in which students can cheat in academic courses, f2f or online.

Nothing surprises me anymore, I was the grievance chair for adjunct's union and we are allowed to take one class per semester. Admin got to fire an adjunct for having someone take a course for him at the same time he was teaching a class.

Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin

Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin

Something I shared with my students...25 Apps You'll Need to Survive College

TED: The NSA responds to Ed Snowden's privacy leak.