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It is time once again for my top 10 list of learning tools for Jane Hart’s Annual Top Tools for Learning roundup.

https://mike-taylor.org/2022/08/02/2022-top-tools-for-learning/…

If you’re a Windows user, you have a powerful storage package right at your fingertips.

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-onedrive-personal-benefits/…

DisplayNote Broadcast is the type of tool that is great for getting all of your students to look at the same thing on your computer at the same time. I found this to be particularly useful when giving coding demonstrations …

Below are some good tools to help you keep track of your references and organize research sources. Each time you cite a source in your paper make sure to save it using one of the tools below. When your reference …

Advertisers, political campaigners, people promoting their own videos – these are what matter to both TikTok and Facebook. That’s what we don’t see in “more human online engagements” and that’s why their success and sustainability is so limited.

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/08/01/tiktoks-poison-pill/…

The focus of the book is on note making for actively producing tangible outputs (essays, papers, theses, monographs, books, etc.), something on which a few recent texts in a the related productivity space haven’t delivered.

https://boffosocko.com/2022/08/02/how-to-make-notes-and-write-a-handbook-by-dan-allosso-and-s-f-allosso/…

New study shows colleges may need to hire more digital experts and better prepare students to learn online.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-08-09-is-higher-ed-really-ready-to-embrace-hybrid-learning…

Like Udemy, Amazon’s new online learning portal allows individuals to directly offer courses online.

https://www.classcentral.com/report/amazon-launches-udemy-competitor/…

This list is divided into 7 “Chapters”: Designing Technology, Designing Systems, Understanding Systems, Applied Technology – Network Design, Applied Technology – Narrative Design, Applied Technology – Human Design, and Designing New Realities.

https://ideaspaces.net/25-books-every-technologist-should-read/…

Five specific PowerPoint techniques lay out a pathway for reducing PowerPoint overload, each of which applies a research-based principle. By taking these five steps, you will be well on your way to communicating more effectively on the PowerPoint platform.

https://www.indezine.com/stuff/atkinsonmaye.pdf…

This article explores educators’ experiences during the rapid shift from face-to-face to emergency virtual remote teaching and learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. One hundred and forty educators from a Canadian province completed a survey with Likert scale …

Learn how to create an email group or a distribution list in Microsoft Outlook and see what a tremendous time saver it can be.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-email-group-distribution-list-in-outlook/…

Most online learning platforms sent or granted access to children’s data to third-party companies, usually advertising technology (AdTech) companies. In doing so, they appear to have permitted the sophisticated algorithms of AdTech companies the opportunity to stitch together and analyze …

Here are the books Gates recommends for the summer: 

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/5-books-bill-gates-recommends-for-the-summer…