Diigo bookmarks for today 03/31/2010

• 12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That Employ Critical Thinking

  A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.
  
  
  

  Tags: witter, education, technology, tips, for, the, classroom, social, networking, online, resources, teaching, and, learning, activities, making, connections, between, concepts

• Pros and Cons of the iPad in Education

  Tags: ipad, education, opinion, analysis, college

• The Imagination Age: Education and Second Life

  Tags: education, virtualworlds, secondlife, DIP

• Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Playing Video Games Will Not Get You a Job But Creating One Might

  Share this with your students who love video games. I love how Alfred shares his thoughts on the transition from gamer to game designer. This is a huge market especially as education moves to gaming platforms as well.

  Tags: education, learning, edu_news

• westwood - Open Sim Tutorials and Instructions

  My ninth graders have completed a module documenting how to do various tasks in OpenSim, the virtual world we use that is hosted by Reactiongrid. This wiki has the links, instructions, and other pages with tutorials on how to do various items. I was assessing this today and thought I'd pass it along as there is some great information to show you how to do things. (If you are a beginning second lifer you may also learn some things.)

  Tags: education, learning, opencontent, edu_trends, techintegrator

• The iPad in Education: Colleges Give iPads to All Incoming Students

  and so it begins

  Tags: education, ipad, technology

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