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Reed College finds that the iPad excels under the same conditions in which the Amazon Kindle failed a year earlier.

A presentation about where these learners spend their time

E-learning is a technology enhanced kind of learning which offers several advantages over traditional schooling. Because of these advantages, e-learning for disabled students has become possible

Classroom assessment is both a teaching approach and a set of techniques. The approach is that the more you know about what and how students are learning, the better you can plan learning activities to structure your teaching. The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.

Most surprising: those students who used e-textbooks, prefer textbooks. Study based on 90 or so students, so conclusions should be seen as tentative

Mashable is a top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture. The reviews are great!

This is a wiki that has fantastic content regarding social networking tools that can be used for educational purposes - hence the term 'Educational Networking'

A look at applications for all that is Apple, not neccessarily for educators, but having a potential use by educators.

A link to a video about using Twitter in a history class

A social Networking Tool that allows users to create polls and quizzes in an international setting via texting,twittering,and the web.

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, or web browser.

This was used in a class I took and I found it a fascinating tool to doing a poll or survey for a class. It allows students to use the tech that they generally already use to a great extent - such as responding by text from the phone using a code specific to that poll, responding via twitter, or on the PollEv.com site directly. I haven't integrated this yet into a class, but I can really see potential here after using it in a class

The leading professional society for evaluation. Excellent source for evaluation methods, theories, and practice--including topical interest groups related to technology.

I think this is a great site. You can make study aids and share them with the students, students can make thier own based on what they need to study--then share them with each other, or you can just use the site for personal enjoyment by makeing flash cards for...oh, say, studying Latin (reason I originally bookmarked the site).

Free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education

Online teaching and learning materials

A must for anyone using technology in education

My thoughts about Twitter

for >20/mont an organization like Fanshawe can access information pertaining to the development of online pedagogy.

Blog about teaching ESL

More advice about teaching ESL

Of the three new bookmarks I found I though this one related to last weeks technology tools stats related to various generations online.

For those interested in mathematics reform, Dan Meyer provides a strong case for a more genuine mathematics in the classroom. You might also check out the article "A Mathematician's Lament" for a discussion on how the beautiful art form of mathematics is desecrated in the classroom: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdfhttp://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf