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Twitter. It is a simple tool, based on a simple idea, which is complicated by its simplicity

social contact with individuals is enhanced because the internet takes us beyond boundaries of space and time.

As that works in life, so it works in Twitter.

Teaching is a complex, multifaceted activity, often requiring us as instructors to juggle multiple tasks and goals simultaneously and flexibly. The following small but powerful set of principles can make teaching both more effective and more efficient, by helping us create the conditions that support student learning and minimize the need for revising materials, content, and policies. While implementing these principles requires a commitment in time and effort, it often saves time and energy later on.

What is assessment? Where do we want students to be at the end of a course or a program? And how will we know if they get there? Those two questions are at the heart of assessment.

site provides practical strategies to address teaching problems across the disciplines.

the announcement that YouTube for Teachers is so important. 

How do you use the resource to build upon and enhance your lesson? First, you start by building your own channel.

I believe the gap in know how is related to learning -- new learning, unlearning, relearning.

I think of knowing as a more staid, steady, stable state. When I know something, it is for sure; it is so sure it is fact.

Learning is an active state, an process of searching, digging, questioning, connecting, thinking, imagining, visualizing, trying, pitching, collecting, building, sharing, enhancing, coloring, synthesizing, communicating.  Learning is unfinished.

Deeper Learning incorporates technology purposefully to enhance, rather than automate learning.