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Using Facebook in Teacher Education

An education blog with ideas for using Twitter in the classroom.

E-Learning Queen focuses on distance training and education, from instructional design to e-learning and mobile solutions, and pays attention to psychological, social, and cultural factors. The edublog emphasizes real-world e-learning issues and appropriate uses of emerging technologies. Who is the Queen? You are, dear reader. Susan Smith Nash is the Queen's assistant.

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Many readers use synchronous e-Learning tools to deliver instruction live and online. However, there are many other uses for these tools in education and in corporate settings. This article relates the success of one particular tool, and offers a number of best practices that you will be able to put to work in creating and delivering effective, competitive e-Learning.

Take a look at this site for resources on technology tools for the classroom.

Technology tools you can use

Education World offers new technology content every day. Some of our pieces related to technology tools can be found in this archive.

This video discusses the origins of, history, types and reasons for using blogs. Very informative

Lee Keller asks Kim Cavanaugh about using blogs in education

Really interested in how to use twitter for education and keeping it's use in a professional manner :-)

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eLearn Magazine is a leading source of high-quality information on the uses of online learning and training strategies in a variety of contexts for K-12, higher education, and the corporate workforce.eLearn Magazine presents new technologies and approaches for creating, delivering, and supporting online instruction and workplace performance.

This is a good introductory treatment of Social Constructivism, which sets the stage well for what social networking tools might be able to do for us in education.

I agree that as we continue, learning will become more interactive, using all types of tech tools to enable students not only to learn in the classroom, but as online learners also.

Some advice on how to use Skype for teachers, good for face to face and online teachers.

This article explains how synchronous communication techniques can effectively work to make graduate courses more relevant. It can also be used for the same purposes in an undergraduate course.

Many regard Twitter as quite a useless social media sharing portal. Some have this negative opinion, mainly because of the fact Twitter allows you to "tweet" or post only 140 characters in length. This length equals the text of a regular SMS, and for some this is simply not enough.

I found a good list of how one teacher uses Twitter in the classroom. Personally, I love the idea of a hashtag for a specific class.

I use this app, which can be used on any device, in my blueprint reading class. It is applicable in any course when trying to develop visualization skills. Some students love it, some do not. It has a gamification feel to it. Heather Zaccagnini

Just finishing off an assignment for class.

This article describes three areas that impact students use of technology in the classroom

Google Classroom. Do you use it? What part do you find the most useful?