Academic Social Media
Diigo.comwww.diigo.com This is an amazing resource that allows you to follow people that are the experts in teaching, in your content area and/or in just about any field imaginable. Edmodo.comAn amazing academic networking site where students can post comments similar to Facebook, and teachers can initiate polls, have students submit assignments and share their work and teachers can give online quizzes that offers the results to the students in real time.
Here is a link to the 2012 SXSW presentation by the CEO of Edmodo--Interesting look at the past and present of Edmodo, Education and the Cloud. http://blog.edmodo.com/2012/03/20/video-ceo-nic-borgs-presentation-at-sxswedu/ |
www.twitter.com
The Best Academic Social networking personal learning network. Follow educators who constantly post the best resources on the web. Search by "hastag" or #subject and find anyone in the world who is talking about that. You should probably search, #springsteen if you like music. Google DocsGoogle Docs allows you to store up to 2 GB of files "in the cloud" so that you can access your files from any computer, anywhere, anytime. Google docs is a word processing, presentation (like (Powerpoint) and spreadsheet (like Excel).
The best thing about Google Docs is that more than one person can work on the documents at the same time. Teachers can view the revisions history, enabling them to see exactly who wrote what in the Revision History (perfect for figuring out who contributed on group projects. Check out this video. |
10 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Tech Insight
Follow these 10 thought leaders on Twitter to stay on top of the ever-changing landscape of technology.
Follow these 10 thought leaders on Twitter to stay on top of the ever-changing landscape of technology.