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Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
Interesting site - educational applications?
N.J. Principal Teaches Students To Tweet - wcbstv.com
Principal teaching students and teachers to use Twitter for education
YouTube Now Auto Captions Videos (Kind Of)
Automatic captioning for videos on some sites
Auto-timing for videos uploaded with transcript, using speech recognition.
Should help with producing videos accessible to hearing-impaired students
Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
Also contains links to tools by category and tools that have increased and decreased in popularity
Google Docs (Google Workshops For Educators)
Several suggested activities and how-to's for Google Docs
Future of learning: LMS or SNS? « Connectivism
Interesting article about limitations of Learning Mangement Systems (content-focused) with respect to social networking, collaboration, teamwork (Social Networking Systems - SNS). Posits the success of Facebook as evidence that social networking is important not only in life but also education. Facebook as a model for future online education? Not until they get the privacy thing fixed.
- The comments and discussion that follow the article illuminate some of the issues - worth reading. - furchner on 2009-11-13
Connectivism - Networked and Social Learning (blog)
Interesting, thoughtful articles about using networking online to support learning
Web 2.0 Literacy Tools Master List Fall
Comprehensive list of Web 2.0 tools, categorized by use and type
Diigo uses in education - survey results
How some educators are using Diigo
The Rapid eLearning Blog
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use a desktop microphone
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have them all open and sized to the record window
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Website Maintenance Tips for Front-End Developers - Smashing Magazine
Contains useful tips for maintaining and keeping up-to-date other "social" sites, too - blogs, wikis, bookmark lists.
Purdue University Adds Twitter and Facebook to Class Participation
Interesting use of technology - also see comments for other ideas on using Twitter and Facebook in classrooms
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a new application developed at the school called Hotseat that integrates Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging to help students “backchannel” during class.
Diigo Tutorials
A collection of tutorials about Diigo - using Google Notebook rather than Diigo to compile the list. (It's a good illustration of the use of Google Notebook, too!)
Group HGSET561's best content - Diigo group
Example of using a Diigo group in a class. Links are annotated and the discussion feature is used (click on Filter: Topics to see just the discussion)
Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech -- Campus Technology
Students and educators are in agreement that technology is an important adjunct to education - but students are not impressed with how well instructors understand and integrate technology into their classes.
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According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes." Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
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