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You want to connect, and you need to do it virtually. So you need a connection tool that’s easy, fast, user-friendly and highly accessible. Google Hangouts are about to become one of the best tools in your online content marketing toolbox.
Via Jaana Nyström, Gerrit Bes, Gust MEES
Run all your favorite mobile apps on PC and Mac, free. Download here!
Via Gust MEES
You've always wanted to write, and blogging is a great first step. Here's how to get started.
Via Gust MEES
Randall Kapuscinski: "This winter I am teaching Sheridan’s first formal transmedia course. It is a modest beginning with 12 students from the post-grad ATVF program attending" ...
Via The Digital Rocking Chair
Presenting information, data, or library instruction content, in appealing and innovative formats offers librarians opportunities to engage students and library users in services, resources, and instruction.
Via Alexandre Serres, Terheck
Do you know the actual theories of learning? A learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn, helping us understand this inherently complex process.
Via Gust MEES, Adelina Silva
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There's a lot of buzz out there about STEM - not only in the realm of teaching and learning, but in terms of job growth and potential, too. According to the Smithsonian Science Education Center (the makers of the handy infographic), People who understand science and technology are smarter, more competitive, more productive, and more engaged global citizens.
Via Gust MEES
The New Media Consortium and Open Universities Australia jointly released the Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education 2013-2018: An NMC Horizon Project Regional Analysis. This report applies the process developed for the NMC Horizon Project, with a focus on identifying and describing emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in tertiary institutions across Australia. Twelve emerging technologies are recognized across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, as well as key trends and challenges expected to continue over the same period, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for strategic technology planning. View the work that produced the report at www.aus.wiki.nmc.org.
Via Kim Flintoff, Peter Mellow
There are many reasons we use social media. From the basic to the more advanced, the tool is simply ubiquitous and addictive. This infographic sheds some light for us all.
Via Gust MEES, ABroaderView
Though I often talk about how the flipped classroom is not about the videos, most flipped class teachers do use videos. What are some tips on how to make good quality videos. Aaron Sams...
Via eLearning and Design
Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit ...
Via David Miller, JoelleYalin, Mayra Aixa Villar, Alfredo Corell, juandoming, John Shank, mjonesnnu
No matter what happens, there will always be a demand for data visualization tools. Data on its own can be pretty boring and brightening it up with images and other visual tools, it can make normally inaccessible information much easier to digest. (Editor’s Note: It’s also great for information reading literacy, and the new Common Core demand for multimedia “texts.”) There are a number of fantastic tools out there that will present your data in an accessible manner. All of the tools listed below are free and chances are you’ve used one or two of the tools mentioned before.
Via Lauren Moss
"The term “project-based learning” gets tossed around a lot in discussions about how to connect students to what they’re learning. Teachers might add projects meant to illustrate what students have learned, but may not realize what they’re doing is actually called 'project-oriented learning.' And it’s quite different from project-based learning..."
Via EDTC@UTB, William Machado, Lynnette Van Dyke, Ken Morrison
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