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Social networking communities are here to stay. Facebook has over 500 million users, while Twitter has over 200 million. That's not even counting blogs or YouTube video blogs. There's no doubt that students are actively engaged in online communities, but what kind of effects are these sites having and how can parents counteract the bad and bolster the positive?

#TT1921 This presentation software tool would be beneficial to my online learning because of the inbuilt mechanism that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring one's ideas to life. With time, after gaining the skills to use it, one can be a great presenter. Great presentation with content would improve students' understanding and learning experience!

Stress management tips give you skills to effectively deal with stress and take control. Life can be challenging sometimes! The bills might need paying, you may feel overworked and pressured with a to-do list as long as your arm, or family responsibilities or concerns over the economy may be weighing you down.

Mozilla's Popcorn Maker is an initiative by the Mozilla Foundation to create a software that uses the Popcorn.js API to add web-rich features to videos, without having to learn programming. The software can be used by video creators and...

I think that Mozilla has discontinued support for this product, at least according to their web page.

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad video display (via Airplay/cable).

Another great source on providing timely feedback throughout the course to enhance student learning.

This article gives simple explanations of benefits behind the use of social media at all levels of education and how students can enhance their education.

Know your students! We can better serve our students if we understand them better. This article gives a great list of facts about online students.

Relying on the expertise of distinguished curators and scholars, Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Social network sites can be used for learning in Bloom's Taxonomy stages of: remembering when locating, 'liking', or recognizing; understanding when subscribing or tagging; and evaluating when justifying a decision, collaborating or networking via the site ( Churches, 2009).

This is a new favorite tool for gathering feedback from a group. Feedback is gathered as free-text and compiled into a word cloud. Since the survey can be left open for up to 1-2 weeks, this would work well as either a synchronous session tool or an asynchronous tool.

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner was a New York Times bestseller in the early 2000's. Here is the description of Stephen Dubner's Radio Show: "Freakonomics Radio is an award-winning weekly podcast (subscribe here!) with 8 million downloads per month. It can also be heard on public radio stations across the country, on SiriusXM, on several major airlines, and elsewhere. Host Stephen J. Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature - from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt. Freakonomics Radio is produced by Dubner Productions and WNYC Studios."

An estimated 96% of people with chronic medical conditions live with an illness that is invisible. Invisible disabilities can impact student performance, and that staggering stat means that invisible disabilities are more prevalent in classrooms and eLearning environments than you think. Watch a recording of the presentation below, or read on for highlights.

What accommodations are needed for eLearning students with "invisible" disabilities?

What accommodations are needed for eLearning students with "invisible" disabilities?

"An instructor's 'digital' personality can influence student achievement, retention or completion, and satisfaction with courses..." I couldn't agree more as this has been my experience!

Personality Psychology in the Classroom

A good synopsis of 20 Web 2.0 tools that can complement teaching.

There are definitely many teaching tools to choose from. This article just scratches the surface... Dawn

Love the description of all the items we are learning in class. This helped a lot in putting 2 and 2 together. Thank you for posting this. Kathy

Yes, there are a ton of great ed-tech tools out there, but which ones should you be adopting for your classroom? This article gave me some great ideas.

Ranzie, Thank you for sharing this. Loved it. I am still learning about much of this content and how it can be utilized in my classroom