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"Push" information to your students with Remind101

By Jean Mandernach

If we want to communicate with our students, we have to wait for them to come to class, check their email or login to the online classroom... but, let's face it, there are times that we don't want to wait. Times that we want to tell our students something RIGHT NOW! Whether a current event, a change in an assignment, or a reminder about class... remind101.com gives us a tool to quickly, easily, efficiently text our students without ever having to exchange cell phone numbers.


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Higher Education Seminar ONLINE: Sept. 22

By Jean Mandernach

New York Times Schools for Tomorrow
Sept. 22, 2011
http://www.nytschoolsfortomorrow.com/agenda.html


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The "next-generation" classroom...

By Jean Mandernach

Is it a classroom or a coffee shop? It may not look anything like the classrooms we are used to, but faculty and students at Texas Wesleyan University have designed an award-winning classroom space designed to maximize learning in our modern era.


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Twitter: Just a fad or a new teaching tool?

By Jean Mandernach

If you want to be hip and cool, just tell your students that they can follow you on Twitter... but, does Twitter really do anything beyond boost your "cool factor"?


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