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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.

Utube video about how students feel with social networking in university classes.

Good visual on how to use Twitter.

More discussion on the need for safety/ caution / education in the use of social media

I faced an internet connection issue, and this article shows how Twitter can be a reliable tool even when there is no connection, as students can receive messages to their phone. I thought it would be interesting to see how Twitter is being used in the Arab world academia

One potential casualty when courses move online - or even when face-to-face courses incorporate web-based technologies - is collaboration. Many instructors fear they will lose opportunities to interact with their students - and that their students will lose the ability to interact with one another.

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I was having trouble get acquanited with Diigo. This video helped me so much.

Video explaining diigo in plain English

Very informative video on how to understand the benefits of using Diigo!

great slide show of facts, etc, how to's

Having been immersed lately in reading about disruptive technologies, I am in a quandary. Which - if any - technology in higher education is truly disruptive? How would we know? Is there a way to make any technology disruptive? And finally, How might disruptive technology affect higher education's future?

One of a series of articles by Richard Byrne available on issuu, where he explores how Google can be used by instructors. He has a series of other publications covering various topics/how to guides. Highly recommended!

A colleague had sent this link to me about Twitter applications for business after I commented on how I was trying to see how some of the technology had practical applications in my classroom. So, I share it with you here.

FREE webinars include collaboration technologies, Merlot Introduction, and ePortfolios in the Cloud. Resources include Sloan Semester Archives that tell the story of how "Using online learning, colleges and universities from across the country responded in record numbers to help students and institutions impacted by the storms. Dubbed "Sloan Semester" the initiative provided free online courses to students impacted by Katrina and Rita storms." Here you can identify more benchmarks in a useful case-study of how Institutions committed to online learning were transformed to leverage learning resources in a time of need. I know that Illinois schools looked at Elluminate when H1N1 was an active global pandemic.

Example of how to use Facebook in education.