Those without strong online social networks will be left out of the digital conversation, educator and consultant Angela Maiers argues.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/10/27/social-media-savvy-the-new-digital-divide/…
Social Media Policy
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Presentation of the Week: Social Network Technologies for Learning
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Teacher Wall is the Social Network Teachers Have Been Waiting For
The Teacher Wall is a virtual town hall that gives teachers an opportunity to talk about the things that are most important to them–from challenges to “A-ha! moments.”
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/get_in_the_fracas/2011/10/teacher-wall.html…
Wordle Works Wonders!
One of the challenges facing Patricia Murphy, a Dawson College teacher, is how to make student feedback explicit – both to herself and amongst her students. Wordle struck her as a great tool to capture the collective voice of students …
Classrooms of the Future Are Here, But Results are Not
An analysis on the implementation of technology in the classrooms.
http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/classrooms-of-the-future-are-here-but-results-are-not/…
Watch Informative Documentaries On Current Topics
Video documentaries are a wonderfully informative way to learn about topics you are unfamiliar with. While numerous websites offer free documentaries, very few offer free legal documentaries that are relevant to current global topics. Documentary.Net is one of these few …
8 Observations On Flipping The Classroom
One of the more unfortunate buzzwords to appear in online education circles and the press is “flipping the classroom”. This means that instead of lecturing students in lessons in school, the teacher records the lecture as a video and uploads …
10 Reasons to Move to Moodle 2 from Moodle 1.9
A series of two presentations made by Gavin Henrick, a Moodle expert, on the advantages of migrating from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.
Part 1: http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/10-reasons-to-move-to-moodle2-from-moodle-19-part1
Part 2: http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/10-reasons-to-move-to-moodle2-from-moodle-19-part2…
How Facebook Use Correlates With Student Outcomes
Is Facebook a worthless waste of time for students? Does it steal time and energy that they would otherwise spend on homework? Many parents and teachers certainly feel this way. But research shows that the reality is a bit more …
Cloud-based Blended Synchronous/Asynchronous Shared Documents
János Varga, a teacher from John Abbott College explains how cloud-based blended synchronous/asynchronous shared documents promote collaboration and active learning among students.
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/publications/reports/a-venir/the-issue/index.html…
Teachers’ Guide to Social Media
A great guide for teachers developed by Dell Education.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/public/articles/K12_Teachers_open_Book_by_Dell.pdf…
Social networks are becoming your personal operating system
The medium is no longer just the message. Now, the medium is the platform and people now represent both the medium and the message. Their digital relationships define the nature of information discovery and its course through the social graph.…
50 time-saving Google Docs templates
Google Docs templates make life just that much easier by providing the bare skeleton of a specific document, spreadsheet or presentation – all you have to do is fill in the blank bits with your information.
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/50-time-saving-google-docs-templates-633072…
TED Talk: Finland’s Education System
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