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The first step towards applying social media into education starts with empowering teachers by giving them freedom to use social media to engage with students and giving them the freedom to come-up with innovative ways of teaching using technology.

Want to know how to strengthen the 5 pillars of Online Teaching? Check 40 smart apps and tools to make your life easier as an Online Educator.

This article organizes popular tech tools with their purpose in course design. - Diane Gryglak

I find this article (based on a video that is also there) very interesting. The author goes through a list of online resources that people can use to find ways to learn languages online. It even offers a link to CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Learning Instruction Consortium) reviewed course.

Great site! This will be a great tool for me. Thanks Norm for introducing the class to diigo

This is a group for students enrolled in MVCR's Technology Tools group.

This looks like a helpful group!

One of the most frequently asked questions from veteran and novice online faculty alike is, "How many weekly discussion posts should I contribute?" The reality is, there is an intricate balancing act to achieve the coveted "guide on the side" role in discussion forum facilitation.

How do we reinvent education? These TED Talks explore the latest thinking -- from teachers, parents, kids -- on how to build a better school.

This post assumes you already know the basics of how to use Twitter. You know what a hashtag is and what purpose an @mention serves. If you need a general overview of how Twitter works and why it's useful for teachers, we recommend starting here.

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!

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!

This article discusses very innovative ways for students to use their cell/smart phones in class.

Nice study of how higher ed faculty view social media in and outside of class. Easy to read comparison charts. Study does include video and podcasts as social media on top of networking sites.

This is an interesting article that discusses the importance of creating "community" with social media and how it's important to incorporate into the classroom. The startling statistic that the authors cite is that 96% of students are using at least 1 form of social media.

Linked resources of how to use universal design for development, procurement, and use of technology

Thanks for the great resource. I don't think we can ever have enough info on UDI, particularly how tech can support it.

A collection of articles that discusses ways to incorporate social media into education. This is mostly geared towards k-12, but has some helpful insight for higher ed, as well.

I hear complaints about the poor quality of student writing today as often as I read stories about the Internet causing the end of higher education as we know it (i.e., frequently). When those complaints come in the form of actual conversations with peers, instead of in print, I feel myself immediately put on the defensive.

Thanks for this post Heather. I liked that the instructor recognized that despite some challenges with using a new technique to promote his students' writing skills the energy that was expressed by his students far outweighed the "mess" that he dealt with the first time trying something new.

The lack of learning transfer is a common mantra in higher education. It's a good article for reflection. Although I've been a proponent of service learning, at the same time, I wasn't sure how students could or if they would transfer their experiences to the academic component. Now, I need to rethink my position on service learning and its impact on connected learning

Although this is directed at K-12, I think it is definitely adaptable to the post-secondary environment.

PlayPosit is an "interactive video" tool that I'm excited to try out. Not quite there yet, but this is a neat blog article talking about how they use it.

Helpful article detailing the reasons that instructor feedback is critical in online classes, along with strategies for how to provide feedback effectively.