MVCR Tech Tools

Here is some good information on student engagement using Camtasia.

Here is some good information on Survey Monkey

Website guide for using twitter in education-in collaboration with twitter.

Are you interested in using Twitter or other social media as a teaching tool? Our culture has transformed significantly where online distribution of ideas has become commonplace. Our students' needs have shifted and they require digital citizenship skills.

You've heard the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, but when that picture is protected by copyright, the picture is only worth three words: cease and desist. OK, that's kind of a lawyer joke. But it illustrates how protective people are about finding their images used online without permission.

I find the entire copyright issue so darn confusing. This was a great post but with the exception of items such as photos and music, how do you protect intellectual property- meaning ideas? I find extremely difficult to live in this "let's all collaborate" world without guarding ideas I have for journal articles, etc. How far should we go to share and /or get exposure for our work? Any thoughts?

An article on Twitter for teachers, from Edudemic, a site that distributes stories around teaching, learning, and the impact of technology on education.

In addition to the comment that populated itself below, I want to add that this link contains a list of etiquette rules for Twitter that I think are very useful for a newbie. Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here's a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic's archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts.

Here are some useful tips for students to use to create a LinkedIn account.

The debate surrounding social media as a learning tool is unlikely to abate any time soon. Is it just a distraction, or do the interactive educational tools available outweigh any disadvantages? Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are becoming steadily more integrated within a variety of apps targeted at learning.

is open source the wave of the future for academic publications

Different people communicate differently. Undoubtedly, you already know this. What you may not know is that these different ways of communicating are pretty much hard-wired into people and seldom reflect conscious choice.[1]Our communication style emerges from a combination of brain dominance, psychological preference, sensory approach and the communication examples that have surrounded us since birth.

For any classroom this could work to engage with content.

Technology is ubiquitous, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true potential tech offers for teaching and learning.

Bricks don't make a school. People do. We are social organisations of parents, students and staff working together in the mission of training young people. What role can social media have in schools?

According to ACTFL, foreign language learners need as much as 240+ hours of input to reach an intermediate level of proficiency. I'm looking into ways to use Twitter together with other applications like Feedly to encourage students to become autonomous learners and get more input from authentic francophone listening and reading sources. I can help them navigate through the sea of information available by sending them my suggested feeds and then practice using the target language by discussing topics together. Feedly is used to create a personal list of RSS feeds to favorite online news, video, audio and learning sources and save, publish and/or share them with others via an RSS reader application or even Twitter.