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The Twitter craze has finally made it across the Atlantic, with a reported increase of 974% in UK Twitter users over the past 12 months. Its beauty is in its simplicity, but there are a host of tips and tricks to get you super-connected with the world. F

"Before jumping into creating a rubric, think carefully about the performance objectives of the assignment. Keep these objectives specific and clear."

For those of you that were unable to make it to our inaugural UK User Conference, the videos below should help you play catch up. From Professor Mazur's excellent keynote on Peer Instruction to Paul Burt's practical tips for the deployment of ResponseWare, you'll end up furnished with masses of knowledge.

Guardian live chat panelists from universities including Cornell, Bath, MIT and Glasgow Caledonia suggest how to successfully extend the classroom into virtual environments

"Welcome to Google's MOOC Kit! We're excited to provide you with a great resource that includes best practices, important tips, technology guidelines, and strategies to help you inspire and motivate students. We hope you find this information helpful when planning and designing your online course. Whether you have experience teaching online or have never taught a course before, these resources here will help guide you through the process."

Best practice & advice on running webinars [Free white paper download]

You don't need to be a professional audio engineer to record narration. However, you do want to pay attention to what you're doing and do the best job possible

"Despite being recognized as a fundamental part of the educational process and emphasized for several decades in medical education, the influence of the feedback process is still suboptimal. This may not be surprising, because the focus is primarily centered on only one half of the process - the teachers. The learners are the targets of the feedback process and improvement needs to be shifted. Learners need to be empowered with the skills needed to receive and utilize feedback and compensate for less than ideal feedback delivery due to the busy clinical environment."