Here are my favorite resources of the week, curated from my Twitter account.
Social Media Resources, Policy tools and How To’s
Who uses Twitter and how – by Andreas Silva
Using Social Media Marketing to Promote Green Business – by Paul Raybould, Sustainable Business
Social Media Policies: Promoting vs. Policing – by Kyle Lagunas
Social media plays a key role in crisis communication: Report – by Diana Nguyen
Social Media News
Why your business can’t ignore social networking – by Debra Donston-Miller
Social media restricted for Olympic volunteers – Event Magazine, UK
Educational Technology
Technology Provides Parents a Window on the Classroom by Linking Home to School – EduTopia
10 New Trends in Outsourced Grading – OnlineUniversities.com
10 Most Popular Graphic Organizers – Teachervision
50 Mobile Learning (mlearning) resources – posted on Slideshare
Twitter Alive – Hash tags for educators – Splaysoft
Technology News
Web addicts have brain changes, research suggests – by Helen Briggs, BBC News
The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games – by Peter Gray, Psychology Today
Mobile: Most people get news from social media, not branded apps – by David Silverberg
Literacy Resources
Free Books for BC Literacy Programs through First Books Canada – by Decoda Literacy Solutions
10 Great Literacy Games Sites – Creative Education Blog
Using Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom – by Andrew Miller
Literacy and Language News
Good grammar and sentence structure go hand-in-hand with literacy – Globe and Mail
Urban Dictionary, Wordnik track evolution of language as words change, emerge – by Mallary Jean Tenore
Immigrants struggle to land quality jobs in Canadian cities – by Tamara Cunningham
Student’s vocabulary knowledge has a strong relationship to academic success – by Lisa Rowell
Dyslexia and the Brain: What Does Current Research Tell Us? – by Roxanne F. Hudson, Leslie High, and Stephanie Al Otaiba
EAL / ESL / EFL Resources
International Languages Resources
5 must-watch foreign language films by – Geetanjali Jhala
Education Resources
Motivating Students Who Don’t Care – by ASCD
How profs talk about you behind your back – by Todd Pettigrew
Education News
Parents don’t have time to help kids learn, poll finds – CTV news
Music therapy in early childhood classrooms – by Ronna Kaplan, Huffington Post
Province unveils 10-point plan to improve Alberta’s education system: Initiatives include increasing transparency, collecting parental feedback – by Matt McClure, Calgary Herald
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Sarah Elaine Eaton is a faculty member in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.
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