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Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about ways her office can help connect higher education professionals with one another to share best practices for using technology, something that is not happening now.

Here's to thinking outside the box......

The articles states, "A genuine online course would be nothing but the software and would handle all the grading, too. No living, breathing instructor would be needed for oversight." But, never fear, the opposite side is presented too.

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Art Daily Tweet (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth) http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=44618&int_modo=1 High resolution images of famous art work will be available on you laptop! Google has partnered with museums like MoMa- NYC, Freer Gallery of Art- Washington D.C. , Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain, Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic, National Gallery, London - UK, Palace of Versailles - France, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia, Tate Britain, London - UK * Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands. The site features over 1000 images, virtual gallery tours and something called Street View where "users can move around galleries virtually, selecting works of art that interest them and clicking to discover more or diving into the high resolution images, where available." Users can also use the Create and Artwork feature where they can save view of artwork they enjoy and build a collection of their own. I have been to MoMa, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Freer Gallery of Art- Washington D.C s I would like to see how these collections are represented and how this new Google tool works.

More discussion on the need for safety/ caution / education in the use of social media

This link provides the reader with a brief description on Poll Everything and how use it. You can see how the polls are written and the various way one might use this site for business, personal or educational purposes on a cell phone, twitter or the web.

Article reviews apps that use Twitter to conduct quizzes and polls.

7 out of 10 college students start their research with Wikipedia according to Project InfoLit's interviews. There's a disconnect between the handouts and faculty advice in my previous post and what students actually do. How can we use some of the tech tools discussed here to reconnect?

This first of two videos shows what college faculty handouts for research projects do and don't include to assist students with their research.

This is a great site for online teaching leads.

A list with links to websites and resources K-12 educators may find useful in the instructional/classroom setting

"Tools for the 21st Century Teacher"

Hi Anna, Thanks for finding and posting this link. I've enjoyed browsing through it and plan to revisit it later. Ruth

So this has nothing to do with Tech Tools but through my frustrations to get all of this to coalesce on Diigo for the assignment, I stumbled upon a funny video, enjoy!

This article provides a list of ten strategies that online teachers need to develop to be efficient. Some very good points.

Great article Sue... I'm bookmarking it!

Using twitter for educational purposes is really interesting to me. This article provides the top tweets to follow for education resources

Inspiring videos!

Thanks for sharing this treasure trove of inspiration Dan!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

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