MVCR Tech Tools

This blog post announces a new teacher professional development category.

I saved out the announcement of this special report & forgot to post earlier. Multiple articles include "Free online courses mean college will never be the same. No special sign-on needed.

Interesting read - I found the shift from taped lecture to a more interactive setting interesting... "Udacity, along with other MOOC designers, is moving rapidly away from the video lecture model of teaching toward an approach that is highly interactive and based on frequent quizzes and human "mentors" to provide active online support for students."

GroupMe is an instant chat room developed by an individual of the group. The individual can seen a request to all individuals whom they would like to be involved in the the group. The individuals has to accept the invitation and then they can communicate within the group.

Przyborski provides some guidelines for assisting students with disabilities to be successful in online classes. T. Dudek

Study Boost provides an interactive social media platform that takes learning outside the classroom. Add questions for students to review.

For your Iphone. I found this free app easy to use; create a video and upload to You tube, Google +, facebook, or twitter in a few minutes.

Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow other users and discover amazing data stories!

Not all of the posted suggestions can be applied to our level of teaching, but some good ideas are posted.

A brief demo highlighting options of Elluminate/Colloborate

Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning advantages and disadvanges. The article includes a chart for when to use each type of communication in an online class.

Great article on getting students interactive and motivated in class and in coursework.

A scholarly article on online collaborative discussion size

Talkes about the use of Twitter in educate.

This is a short blog article I wrote on expanding research skills by using SM.