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"Reading and responding to comments can be one of the most rewarding aspects of blogging. Not only do they help you connect with your readers, they can also inspire later blog entries. The challenge, oftentimes, is following all the conversations around your content-on Google+, for instance, as well as on your website. So we're making things a lot simpler. Starting today, you can bring Google+ Comments to your Blogger blog. Once you've enabled the feature through your Blogger Dashboard, you'll enjoy a number of important benefits:"

"Every semester, quite a few students will remark in the end-of-semester course evaluations that they wish they had gotten more specific, detailed feedback about their projects. Some students also remark that they found it really hard to give feedback, since they just weren't used to giving feedback to other students about their work. So, I've prepared this page to try to give you some examples to look at, helping you to see the MANY ways it is possible to engage with someone else's writing. The key is DETAIL, very very very specific details, rather than general comments like "good work" or "I really liked your stories." The more detailed and specific you can be in your feedback, the more useful it will be for the other person. Here are some examples of Storybook comments from last semester that contain very specific details and vivid, personal observations. Take a look and see what you think!"

"When Facebook users see favorable comments on the social media site about a political candidate, those opinions positively influence their own views of the politician, while unfavorable comments have a negative effect, according to a new paper by University of Delaware researchers."

"The idea is simple (although the software is so complex it took a year to build): before posting a comment in a forum or below an article, users must rate two randomly selected comments from others for quality of argument and civility (defined as an absence of personal attacks or abuse). Ratings are crunched to build up a picture of what users of any given site will tolerate, which is then useful for flagging potentially offensive material."

"From the first week of school, the six year olds in my classroom begin to create an online presence in the form of a digital portfolio.  We use a blogging platform to do this, and include artifacts that show their progress in writing, reading, math, social studies and science."

This is what I LOVE about this article: "Students relish the feedback a comment gives, whether it is from a classmate, a parent, or someone they have never met. The audience becomes part of the student's learning." Now, I still have privacy concerns, but from reading her comments to others who were skeptical she says that she has not received inappriopriate comments in the 8 years she has been doing this. OK- Matt, my eyes are opening...a little bit. ;)

storify- discussed in class. Allows you to create a story 'layer' over multiple social media conversations... pull out pictures, comments of most value etc. a method of curation

"Memes are great for relevancy IF you have an obvious tie to the meme OR you're an online pundit whose writing/content basically lives off of commenting about news and other people's ideas. Otherwise they have little brand value."

This is for a K-12 educator. Please comment on these kids' blogs. They are elementary to middle school age, so please keep that in mind.

Hi, This site is great for creating blogs for kids-really user friendly or is that I just got use to WordPress. -:) http://scratchprogramming.wikispaces.com/Weebly+Tutorial I am going to share it with some of my colleagues.

"It's sad that the Times' lawyers should have gone after what is clearly fair comment - and perhaps sadder that Twitter caved in"

"This interview covers: Kristen's educational path How Edcamp started (and how it has grown) Why Edcamp is for every educator and how to get involved Her book "Professional Learning in the Digital Age" The future of professional development in education Please watch and leave your feedback in the comments below!"

Facebook launched hashtags Wednesday, taking a page from Twitter and Instagram's playbook and making searching easier and more intuitive. Hashtags appear in posts and in comments. When you click on one, a separate window opens and shows the conversation. You can also search for a hashtag in the search bar at the top.

"Moot, a startup offering a new take on commenting and forums, is launching today after three and a half years of development with the goal of bringing these key pieces of Internet discussion into the modern era."

"The New York Times, Slate and Al Jazeera have recently drawn attention to the adjunctification of the professoriate in the US. Only 24 per cent of the academic workforce are now tenured or tenure-track.  Much of the coverage has focused on the sub-poverty wages of adjunct faculty, their lack of job security and the growing legions of unemployed and under-employed PhDs. Elsewhere, the focus has been on web-based learning and the massive open online courses (MOOCs), with some commentators celebrating and others lamenting their arrival. "

"Wipster is a beautiful, intuitive video review and approval platform bringing frame accurate commenting to producers, content creators and media teams."

"Order and assign textbooks, articles, or your PDFs in Perusall. Students annotate the readings and asynchronously respond to each other's comments and questions about the readings in context. With novel data analytics, Perusall automatically generates optimal student groupings and social interactions, grades students' engagement to ensure they are prepared for class, and nudges those who need help to keep everyone on track. "

6 secret strategies to take control of studying and improve memory. FLIRT, DRIVE, and RELAX are mnemonic acronyms that help readers tap their multiple intelligences and learning styles to garner the wealth and breadth of information they will encounter throughout their academic and professional careers. Through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the Internet, students, teachers, and parents can watch videos, post comments, and connect with others struggling with the demands of academic literacy. www.myreadingsecrets.com shares the secrets learned by successful college students, and the reading secrets of successful professionals, authors, and entertainers.

"as I set up the WordPress blog (which was there for the syllabus, widgets, static material), I realized that there was no need for two systems. After consulting with my colleagues Jim (our blog meister), Laura (our commenter and organizer), and Todd (our captain of synchronicity), I shifted the whole thing to a Google Site. There was no need for the Community, since I had some old gadget that could do discussion."

It is hard to imagine holding a university-level class today in which students do not engage with the web or social media in one form or another, whether by using Google search, bookmarking or sharing an article, taking an online survey, posting or commenting on a blog, or using e-mail or text messaging. So, what rules should we, as instructors, follow to ensure no legal or Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) issues arise?

Which ultimately does more good-an article or monograph that is read by 20 or 30 people in a very narrow field, or a blog post on a topic of interest to many (such as grading standards or tenure requirements) that is read by 200,000? What if the post spurs hundreds of comments, is debated publicly in faculty lounges and classrooms, and gets picked up by newspapers and Web sites across the country-in other words, it helps to shape the national debate over some hot-button issue? What is it worth then?

Below find sites that collect or search for open resources, including open textbooks, open courseware, and other OER. Hover over each link for a brief description. If you have a favorite site you don't see here, please leave us a comment at the bottom of the page.