Voxer information from Cybrary Man on what VOXER PLN groups are current.

How to use voxer without annoying others in your group.

Walkie-Talkie App that is now being used by educators synchronously and asynchronously

Kahoot Polling and Quiz tool for synchronous events

An occasional paper on digital media and learning from the MacArthur Foundation. Lead author is Henry Jenkins

A couple of years ago, I first encountered Slack in the context of a multiplayer augmented reality game community ( Ingress). At the time, I didn't quite get the need for Slack. It seemed like yet another chat platform, albeit one with multiple channels and group features.

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The Digital Polarization Initiative is an attempt to build student web literacy by having students participating in a broad, cross-institutional projects around issues of digital polarization.

Adopter distributions closely approach normality. The above figure shows the normal frequency distributions divided into five categories: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. Innovators are the first 2.5 percent of a group to adopt a new idea. The next 13.5 percent to adopt an innovation are labeled early adopters.

When reflecting on why every teacher isn't using their computers and Internet connections productively when schools have had computers since the early 80s and the Internet has been in schools since the early 90s, I came up with this metaphor for the various positions people assume in relation to the uptake of information and communications technologies.

Original use of pencil came from Lindy McKeown McKeown, L. (n.d.), The Pencil Metaphor. http://web.archive.org/web/20120419230632/http:/www.teachers.ash.org.au/lindy/pencil/pencil.htm and later was made into this image by Professor Steve Wheeler DV8R Blog