Social Networking for Education

Massive set of links for Social Networking sites in Ed: http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/

More info and links on the subject: http://thinkingmachine.pbwiki.com/Think-Social-Networking-for-Education

http://elgg.org/ is a social networking site built specifically for educational use. More info in the about section: http://elgg.org/about.php

Teaching Online 101 - Pedagogy and Excellent Practices

Larry Ragan from Penn State's World Campus, spoke at the SUNY Learning Network's SOLSummit 2009 in Syracuse a couple months back, and provided some excellent research and materials about faculty support for teaching online. He has also produced a series of short video series of interviews with online learning professionals called "Competencies for Online Teaching Success" (COTS) and "Strategies for Managing the Online Workload" (SMOW) - both of which are on YouTube.Larry has also developed a Creative Commons licensed orientation to excellent practices in online education:

Ragan, L. (2007, August 28). Best Practices in Online Teaching. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/col10453/1.2/

The Creative Commons license allows for reuse, distribution, remixing, etc. as long as you include attribution to the original material. So, I have taken his work and adapted it into a Moodle course as well as built a tiny bit onto it. For those who have a Moodle server and would like to load the course up and re-use it, it can be found inthe attachments at this link (https://confluence.delhi.edu/x/OQCsC)