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TED always has interesting videos!

I love this publication on how to facilitate a discussion board. It is easy to read and just has a TON of tidbits on how do run a good discussion board in your online class. I refer to it often. It is a little old, so as I recall, there might be a few links within the document that are broken, but there is a lot of content, so you won't miss it probably.

Thanks for sharing this Christina, Working on facilitating a discussion next week and I found it helpful.

The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. I like this guy and joined his resource group. I encourage you to check out some of the great ideas for brining technology into the classroom.

Northwestern University, United States Received 18 May 2015, Revised 14 December 2015, Accepted 18 December 2015, Available online 23 December 2015 * Enterprise social network systems (ESNs) provide online spaces for informal learning. * Community members actively participate in non-mandatory, informal ESN spaces. * Social presence is the most frequent Community of Inquiry element in these spaces.

As a professor who favors pop quizzes, Cedrick May is used to grimaces from students caught unprepared. But a couple of years ago, in his class on early American literature at the University of Texas at Arlington, he said he noticed "horrible, pained looks" from the whole class when they saw the questions.

Help desk for Blackboard collaborate

After making the list of 23 things online teachers should know, I remembered that I found a link checker website and wanted to post it here.

Blackboard publishes the most current service availability in table form. I love this idea and wish D2L had something similar. It's nice to be able to go there and say to a student or instructor having trouble, oh, yes, there are some status issues with that software.

Want to be a better student? There are literally thousands of apps for that. Not to mention a wide array of other online learning tools. They're not all changing education - but a few innovative ones are.

This article contains several ideas for successful online instruction. Technology is constantly changing and we as instructors need to stay on top of the emerging trends.

With CloudVOTE, you can upload, store and manage your personal or business presentation templates and never have to worry about the content again. No one can modify the content once it's stored as a template, so simply log in, start a poll from an existing template and collect feedback from your audience. ----Bookmark by M Brown for Technology Tools course march 2016

I have used this in my classes and love it! The free Poll Everywhere mobile app is perfect for responding to polls, presenting polls, and clicking through PowerPoint presentations. Use it to... 1.) Respond to polls: Audience members can use the app to respond to the presenter's questions live. 2.) Poll an audience: Presenters can ask the audience questions and display poll responses live. 3.) Navigate in Powerpoint: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote. Participants Audience members or students can easily respond to polls or vote using the app on a smartphone or tablet. Aside from the app, they can respond via web browser, text message, or Twitter. Presenters Professors, teachers and presenters can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple choice polls. Questions can be presented directly from the web or embedded in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Audience responses are displayed in real-time. Great for classroom participation, or gathering opinions from the audience. PowerPoint Remote Presenters using PowerPoint can use the Poll Everywhere mobile app as a presentation clicker, to navigate through your PowerPoint presentation with ease. It has a slick, streamlined design and a set of polling controls built-in. Key Features: * Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions. * Participants are automatically shown the presenter's current question, for quick and easy participation. * Watch results update live. * Click through a PowerPoint presentation with the included Presenter Remote feature.

What a great way to be able to asynchronously poll students and still allow them to remain anonymous. This also gives students to see how well their knowledge compares to other students. It also allows them to see if their way of thinking is similar to other students.

I recently started using BOX at work, and the collaboration that it allows is very powerful. I now see that some educational institutions are using it for this as well. If you have used it in an educational setting, I would like to hear about your experiences. Thanks,

CourseSites by Blackboard is a free learning management system for K12 and Higher Ed Instructors enabling blended & eLearning. I have used this tool a few times before. This is great because it is exactly like BlackBoard. With CourseSites you can do trial and error, and it's ok because students will not see it. Also, CourseSites allow you to add students, if you do not have BlackBoard or any other online learning site that your campus offers.

Presentation for the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs (PICPA) Friday, July 13th, 2012 Hotel Hershey, Hershey, PA Technology in Accounting Education: Learning Support and Professional Readiness Suzanne C. Shaffer, M.Ed., M.S.Ed. Instructional Designer Penn State York Campus scs15@psu.edu Outline PowerPoint Context (broad and specific) of technology in accounting education Current use of technology in accounting education...

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

A mobile device app that turns your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into an optical scanner for grading paper multiple-choice assessments. Great for quizzes, exit tickets, and larger exams of up to 100 questions.

I found this source and it has tons of url's to even more info on how to best use twitter in the classroom.

An interesting list of ways to use twitter for education.

Social media permeates today's society with millions of us engrossed, some would argue to the point of unhealthy addiction, in the latest happenings via apps such as Facebook and Twitter.

This was a really nice resource about flipping classrooms I found. There may be some bias as this is what I am primarily interested in,