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I really like all the good information that can be found on YouTube

This site has a great deal of information for teachers who are transitioning to the Online Classroom. I especially like the Instructional Design blogs that are listed on the site.

A few interesting apps for educators

This is a wiki that has fantastic content regarding social networking tools that can be used for educational purposes - hence the term 'Educational Networking'

Past years lists are also linked. Checkout AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner organized by grade level.

#TT1151 An interesting compendium of Web 2.0 resources for the classroom

Recommended to organize tweets

This is a nice blog about using web 2.0 technologies in teaching.

I brief article that highlights the pros and cons of social media in the educational setting.

Ioana made her account on dijo.

Dave recommended this report in MOD2 discussion to address question I asked about liability of teachers using social networking tools in class assignments. Well worth reading.

A short article listing 4 benefits of using smartphones in the classroom. While I'm still not totally convinced, some good points are made here. The issue I don't ever seem to see addressed in articles like this, though, is how to keep students from going to facebook or their texts after using the phone for a learning purpose.

Collaborative Technologies | Feature From Twitter to Edmodo: Schools Collaborate With Social Media Schools are using a variety of social media tools to help students connect and work together. A great resource with many options to use in the classroom as well as information on security.

The statistical software language R is open-source with free download for Windows PCs. It's a bit cumbersome to learn with the help manuals running to 4,000 pages of "stream of consciousness" thinking. However, it's very powerful, and will readily do things that (say) Excel cannot do. Scripts can be saved to Word documents for later re-use.

The Nature of Knowing One of the most important innovations that an educator can embrace is not a software program or particular technological tool, but rather a philosophy of teaching. In the 20th Century, the theory behind learning and the very nature of knowledge has changed several times.

Google Apps is beginning to revolutionize education. With its highly collaborative, online/offline format - and its attractive price tag (free!) - many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools. The way that Google Apps is interactive and easy to share is powerful.

This post describes and provides examples of three social media platforms used as a pedagogical tool to create meaningful learning assignments in face-to-face and online courses. Social media platforms such as blogs, Wikis and Twitter hold great potential as vehicles for student learning.