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What's the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make? Here are some answers that you might like to share.

With talkabee you can create your own push-to-talk chatroom with one click. You get a simple link for inviting people and there's no signup at all. Try it...

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For A Farewell to Arms, we started with a lottery. Everyone chose a name of a junior and selected a second junior to follow. Besides choosing a quote to reflect on, students also read and commented on two classmates' blogs. The first effect: students talked about blogs during class, their own and their classmates'.

Murder under the Microscope is an online environmental game for school students in years 5 to 10, typically children aged 9 to 14 years.

List of poster presenters at a Baylor U. Teaching with Technology event.

U.S. government agencies can now officially use YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, and blip.tv, using special service agreements that comply with federal terms and conditions.

Videos and Channels from Colleges and Universities.

Over the last 60 days, according to data from Inside Facebook, the number of users over 35 doubled, and the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is women over 55. The majority of Facebook users are now over 25.

You get out of Twitter what you put into Twitter. When you come to Twitter, come prepared to share something. It doesn't have to be earth-shattering information. Just something, anything, that someone, somewhere, might want to see. Here's a novel approach to getting started with Twitter: expect nothing in return.

How to use Quick Capture on YouTube.

We are researching without having an impact, speaking without being heard and writing without being read. Furthermore, our tenure and promotion procedures reward publication more than they do awareness of the field, thus pushing up conference attendance, and journal and book submissions.

Here, excerpting from the conclusion to this volume, we consider how electronic portfolios provide a vehicle for a transition into the future of higher education.

I realize there are many amazing posts on the merits of using Twitter to develop a PLN. I also realize that there already exists dozens of collections of tools for making the most of Twitter.

Today we officially launched PIVOTE as an open source project. PIVOTE is an outcome of the JISC funded PREVIEW project we've been involved with looking at learning in virtual worlds. PIVOTE allows you to author a learning exercise on the web, and then play it on the web, in a virtual world (or worlds), and even on your phone.

The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty.

This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.

Ever wanted to learn a foreign language? Need to memorize facts for your biology and chemistry classes? Or maybe you're a history buff or a trivia fiend who just wants to know everything. We've got tools for creating whatever gets your mind excited, and also for getting this information into your head. You can search the Lists area for something you want to learn. Or even better, just make your own list for yourself and for sharing with others.

Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!