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Academic Article on Twitter in the College Classroom

Take a look at Piazza to host course related Q/A sessions. Thinking about follow up after guest skype interviews. Carol H

So- do you think we still can actively listen to our students on line?

This site has information about online Communication Conferences

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You can lead a student to knowledge, according to an old academic saying, but you can't make him or her think. I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED."

Tips on making e-books for online learning.

What a great way to customize the reading assignments and resources for students in our online courses. This seems like it could also save money on textbook costs for our students.

This is a great new app for the iPad. It costs only 99 cents. It alllows you to use a stylus to take notes, linked audio recordings, PDF annotations, Advanced Word-Processing, inserting photos or drawings, and more.

this is a website that gives an overview of child and adolescent development

Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful. It's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand. Writing about the success of a Stanford online computer science course in the Wall Street Journal, Holly Finn implies that free Web-based education is about to or should replace elite universities: It's a thrilling collegiate coup.

This was really interesting...there are so many free online courses. The issue seems to be quality and accreditation.

Wired Article

This article was very interesting and informative, thanks for sharing

Some interesting applications. Maybe I need to reconsider.

Do Popular Social Networking Applications Have A Place In The Classroom? A Growing Number Of Educators Say 'Yes'. The post, "100 Ways To Teach With Twitter", is one of the most consistently viewed article on this site. Similarly, "Facebook As An Instructional Technology Tool", resulted in the 2nd most trafficked day here in 2010.

Awesome article! Thank you.

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Here's a quick presentation posted to E-teachUK (http://muppetmasteruk.blogspot.com) that shows the process of embedding a Twitter widget into a Moodle page. A handy tutorial for adding all of your Twitter posts to an HTML Block in a Moodle classroom.