Schoology Aims to Fix One of the Greatest Pain Points of Education

Schoology Aims to Fix One of the Greatest Pain Points of Education

A free LMS system - Schoology - with a twist, looks like it should bec checked out.

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/20/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom/

Facebook isn’t just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what’s happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class.

101 Ways to Use Twitter on Campus

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/09/14/101-ways-to-use-twitter-on-campus/

Twitter is known as a great networking and self-promotion tool, but it’s also a useful service for your campus community. Teachers, administrators and students can all use Twitter for study help, group projects, catching up on news around the world and on campus, public relations and recruitment, library announcements, and a lot more. Here are 100 ways to use Twitter on campus.

6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Animations

 

  http://mashable.com/2010/10/27/create-animations-online/

The long and illustrious history of moving pictures all started with the zoetrope. Then there was the thaumatrope, the flip book, and my personal favorite, the phenakistoscope. And now we have (drumroll please): The Internet......

 

100 Blogs Every New Teacher Should Read

100 Blogs Every New Teacher Should Read

Really worth checking out!

100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers | Online College Courses

100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers | Online College Courses

YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments th...

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

9 Safety Tips for Podcasting in the Classroom – SimpleK12

9 Safety Tips for Podcasting in the Classroom – SimpleK12

Podcasting in your classroom is a creative way to stimulate learning and motivate students to participate in classroom activities and collaborative assignments. With any technology, it is extremely important to remember to stay safe! The link yields just a few tips to help ensure you are podcasting safely.

Animation Playhouse Free Animated Gifs Halloween Page 1

Animation Playhouse Free Animated Gifs Halloween Page 1

For those who use graphics :) Have fun.

the creative internet (106 things)

the creative internet (106 things)

Well worth the wait to see this.

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » 31 of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » 31 of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites

Ways to move digital storytelling to new heights

A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The pedagogical value and the challenges of integrating student blogging into your teaching is a recurring topic on ProfHacker. Some of our earliest posts dealt with student blogging, and we have revisited the issue frequently. Most recently, Jeff and Julie wrote about that age-old question—How are you going to grade this?—when it comes to evaluating classroom blogs. Jeff and Julie offer a number of fantastic pointers, and they also refer to a blogging rubric that I use in my own teaching. I’ve never directly described how I grade student blog posts on ProfHacker, but I think it’s about time to share what has been a valuable tool, and to encourage professors to adopt and modify it to fit their own needs.

100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best Colleges Online

100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best Colleges Online

Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and for good reason. What started as a simple way to update friends about daily life has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and education. While many campuses are just picking up on the educational rewards possible with Twitter, there is still plenty of room to create new and exciting ways to use Twitter on campus. The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.

Education Article :: 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers

Education Article :: 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers

It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it.

Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer?

From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.

50 Excellent Open Courses on Teaching With Technology

50 Excellent Open Courses on Teaching With Technology

The information below is taken from a recent posting on www.onlinecollegesanduniversities.com.

It is a listing of 50 free online courses that are offered on a wide variety of instructional technology topics. The courses are free, self-directed, and accessible over the internet. Rather then listing a few examples in this posting I decided to paste all of the links below. (see the link above)