MVCR Tech Tools

Maybe the google hangouts and other tools in this blog can help us to open our eyes on more useful tools

Online surveys from the Great White North!

My screen capture tool of choice

This reader is a great way to organize and view your RSS Feeds.

Here is an alternative to Elluminate

Coursesites open course for Blackboard Exemplary course design

An open MOOC course especially for those using Blackboard

Here are some good online teeaching tips.

Get the most out of your 140 characters when you tweet - shorten those long URLs...

This video changed my mind..... I was wrong.

Here is a site that looks like the old bulletin boards to me, so another tool to add similar to Facebook. http://pinterest.com #TT1241

I know that someone from class asked me about this website so I thought that I would add it - great webinar opportunities

"Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog." more from www.classroom20.com

Short, interesting youtube video that gives you ideas - but not the how to.

Self-explanatory title!

At Best Education Sites, we believe that many of our colleges and universities are failing their students in one crucial way - by not providing them with a rich and easy learning experience on their educational sites. As the world of web design progresses at a dizzying pace, education websites seem to be lost in the past, unable or unwilling to keep up. Anyone who has visited edu sites has probably had the experience: clunky user interface, incomprehensible navigation, ugly design, and no content of any real use for students. We are well aware of this situation, and that is why we decided to create this project of ranking the best educational websites: to try to help fix it.

Another blog from the Carnegie Foundation. I think that this site is a must read and bookmark for any instructor who is interested in the triple aims of educational improvement: - improving education for all students - effective in advancing learning - and efficient in its use of resources.

Recognizing the grave consequences for individual opportunity and more generally for our economy and society, the Carnegie Statway ™and Quantway ™Networked Improvement Communities have embraced an audacious goal-to increase from 5 percent to 50 percent the percentage of students who achieve college math credit within one year of continuous enrollment. As a result of the Carnegie Advancement for Teaching (CAT) work, my college will undergo a pilot program for Fall 2012 where I will be the instructor to achieve college math credit within one year on continuous enrollment. The Pathways Blog provides information about Carnegie's work to create pathways for student success in developmental education in community colleges and makes connections between Carnegie's work and that of others concerned with student struggle. Even though I follow the pathways blog, there are several more blogs from the foundation and are listed blow: