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Years of helping faculty pass to the dark side of online education have taught me a few simple rules that I brow beat (in a collegial way) into all new online teachers.

YouTube live streaming can be a way to hold an synchronous class session if your LMS doesn't include that feature. While it takes a bit of effort to set up, once you do it can be a decent way of having live video with a corresponding real-time chat. It can also be made private/unlisted.

Piazza is designed to connect students, TAs, and professors so every student can get the help they need when they need it. Today, hundreds of thousands of students across hundreds of campuses are using Piazza for their classes. It warms me to think I started something that is impacting the way students learn and the way instructors teach.

visual of tools and blooms taxonomy

I am currently enrolled in both the Tech Tools course and the Instructional Design Course. This web page about where the different tech tools fit in a "Blooms Taxonomy" scheme is a great resource for both classes.

This is terrific. I am going to show it to the teachers at my school. It will help all of us think more clearly about all those tools.

Could this be the future of online education? Short tutorials available on youtube - developing traction! From the article: "Bill Gates' favorite teacher." http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/

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Khanacademy has video lectures for each topic, and lots of information videos for some other majors also.

Article points out how students view copying in the Internet age. As educators, I believe we should be aware of attitudes towards plagiarism not to condone it but to help students learn.

Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about ways her office can help connect higher education professionals with one another to share best practices for using technology, something that is not happening now.

I enjoyed this video. It was very helpful in learning to organize my electronic life.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

Love Dropbox! This has been so helpful to me when I was working on my dissertation and also for preparation for courses and sharing them to students and colleagues.

Here is a "how to" video for highlighting using Diigo.

Here is a "how to" video for creating sticky notes using Diigo.

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!

This is a nice blog that categorizes the different online sites that are out there right now. It helps me compartmentalize the different online programs.

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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.

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

This is a good article which highlights the ways instructors can design the course to reduce cheating.