MVCR Tech Tools

Found Tweetree here! Converts tweets to a discussion board-like format.

This article has some great suggestions for using Twitter with college students.

Using Twitter in the College Classroom

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.

Inspiring videos!

Thanks for sharing this treasure trove of inspiration Dan!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

This blog entry provides us with very useful ideas of using Twitter in education.

I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all.

This article describes ways to use twitter to enhance academic work. With twitter, the class goes on beyond the assigned class period because (i) the technology is appealing, (ii) students have much to say/ask, (iii) students can 'talk' without concern for "who's (physically) in class that might make fun of me", and (iv) students respond in their own time. Twitter has the dual benefits of quasi-synchronous and asynchronous communication.

I came across another link that may be helpful in the search for learning objects.

use this tool to create virtual handouts, syllaby, and homework assignments!

I was having trouble get acquanited with Diigo. This video helped me so much.

Video explaining diigo in plain English

Very informative video on how to understand the benefits of using Diigo!

Wired Article

An interesting article about online delivery versus face to face.

There are some VERY interesting articles listed here - - and a few of them I have shared with our Online Learning Director, and we both feel they will be very good resources for us.

blog about mvcr tech tool

This is a group for students enrolled in MVCR's Technology Tools group.

Hopefully I am really using the bookmark.

Ioana account

Article about the use of text messaging in courses. Includes both student and teacher reaction.

this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education provides suggestions as to how professors can grade student blogs.

Could this be the future of online education? Short tutorials available on youtube - developing traction! From the article: "Bill Gates' favorite teacher." http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/

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Khanacademy has video lectures for each topic, and lots of information videos for some other majors also.

Additional web resources for teachers.