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Office Mix allows you to turn your PowerPoints into interactive online lessons or presentations. Office Mix provides great tutorials on how to do basic functions within Mix!

The article seems more relevant for K-12 although it may be used to enlighten educators who continue to embrace the sage on the stage methodology of teaching.

Great article! While reading the article I immediately thought about how young children are taught to memorize the ABC's and numbers through rote learning. Young children actively engaged with letters and numbers using concrete objects to guide them in their learning results in higher-order thinking.

This tells how to get starting with texting for polling

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

Short, interesting youtube video that gives you ideas - but not the how to.

An interesting view of just how big YouTube is...

To enjoy the full benefits of Diigo (seamless bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, clipping, sharing, annotating, searching, plus more!), we highly recommend that you install the Diigo toolbar (ie. a browser add-on extension). It installs in seconds, and no adware / spamware! Best of all, it's fully customizable to save desktop space!

This is a wiki created in May 2006. The author is Mr Demetri M. Orlando who is currently working as director of information technology at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, chair the NAIS technology & curriculum task force, and do consulting work for strategic thinking around technology. This wiki site offers information to K-12 teachers on how to grow their professional network, integrate technology into teaching, and teach & learn online. It is intended as a comprehensive source of information about all aspects of eLearning.

Cool to see this perspective, and a great example of how to effectively blog and maintain interest

Tool and video on how to bookmark itemshttp://www.diigo.com/user/morecoming

I think I finally did it,.

This post assumes you already know the basics of how to use Twitter. You know what a hashtag is and what purpose an @mention serves. If you need a general overview of how Twitter works and why it's useful for teachers, we recommend starting here.

This video gives a short and simple explanation of how to make a video using Jing.

This is a tutorial video on how to share a video on screencast.com

PBS article on teaching multimedia journalism

Research on how faculty in higher education use social media.

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

This is a good article for those in education who are new to Twitter. It is a 5 step primer on how this educator brings Twitter into her professional development and into her schedule.

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

One of the big issues in distance learning is how to prevent students from cheating on exams, i.e. how to make sure that it is the student and not someone else who is taking the exam. Based on this article, it looks like there may be a solution.

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.