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Considered using Instagram in the classroom? Here are some tips for the same. (Posted by TT1921 student, Zockoll, 3.28.19).

Another social media platform to use in the classroom. This article explains how to set up Instagram and gives ideas for using it.

The particular workshop recording that interests me is the one on using peer review options for online teaching. This is something I'm trying to incorporate more of, and it was helpful to hear about how other teachers incorporate it into their courses!

This blog shares a ton of useful teaching tools and discusses how to leverage new technology to enhance learning.

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.

This resource is a place to share assessments, lesson plans, activities, and other tools for teaching information literacy concepts in higher education settings. There are a lot of ideas on how to use technology in our teaching.

My question to pose with it would be, how might we frame casino schools for online learning? #TT2021 All the best, Viggy (C.A.)

As much as I appreciated this article for how it addresses the benefits of an avatar with virtual reality learning, I mostly appreciated the real-world support VR could offer-including virtual reality field trips. Discovery Education and Google Expeditions seem to be frontrunners for virtual reality field trips. However, I would also like to support my students in creating their own virtual reality locales/research sites. All the best, Viggy (C.A.) #TT2021

This is a good source to read. Adult learners have learning disabilities and educators need a source to help them help these learners.

This was very interesting, especially the VoiceThread program.

Here's a creative and effective way to use Snapchat to teach.

Some good ideas on how to change up the online classroom.

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.

This video goes through the benefits of setting up outcomes in Canvas and how the student can see that information. This is the key to getting students to care about outcomes.

NoodleTools is my favorite tech tool for teaching my composition students how to document and cite their sources. It doesn't just make the citations for them. It also teaches them about the different types of sources.

I like to use this clip when teaching students about the Fifth Amendment. It's funny and sparks a great conversation about the media/society's conception of how and under what circumstances the Fifth Amendment is used. And it's fun! Enjoy!

This is a great article on Edutopia. It contains good practical ideas on how to use an online course's discussion forum.

Best practices, strategies and tips for successfully facilitating online discussion boards.

How to integrate technology into the classroom: PowerPoint, Blackboard, Video, iclickers, online discussions, ePortfolios, blended learning, survey tools, etc.

In Canvas LMS, there is a course called "Using Social Media for Academic and Professional Development". It will help you how to use social media in your courses.

Here is a great video how to use Audacity. Audacity is an audio recording software.

The faculty at my college have been discussing this current article that discusses how "at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years." To read Part 2 of the article copy and paste this link into the URL: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Perfect-Storm-in/126969/

Good article on academic uses of Twitter. Also includes instructions on how to embed twitter in your blog, wiki, etc.