Social Media Classroom Resources
Online Educational Resources to create a more dynamic and interactive classroom.
- This is my primary website to archive all geography education resources. I use www.scoop.it as my primary curation tool to select the best of the web for my networks to see great videos, resources, images, links, blogs, etc. Scoop.it is a fantastic tool for passing along the best that internet has to provide.
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.
I'm a geography/secondary education professor at Rhode Island College. I've taught 9th grade geography & am an APHG reader. I tweet @APHu...- Functionally, this has become my course "textbook."
Geography Education
This 2010 video shows how a primary sector economic activity is reshaping global industry. Green technologies are dependent on these mini...- My home on Google+ for my website and a forum to promote geography education and link educators together. A presence as a Google+ page is powerful since Google searches might just promote Google+ pages.
Geography Education - Google+3 days ago ... Geography Education - Bringing great resources to educators so they can bring the world to their students. - This is sit...- Educators can greatly benefit from using twitter as a collaboration tools with other educators, and also as a way to connect students to broader intellectual currents beyond the walls of the classroom.
@APHumanGeog - 2173 Tweets, 816 Followers, 259 Following.Tweeting geography & education resources. Edited by APHG readers @seth_dixon (Rhode Island College prof.) & @mrshuntsclass (Louisville's ...- How do students start making sense of online information? Storify allows anyone to create news articles with online sources. More importantly, it provides a platform for anyone to distribute and disseminate that information.
- Cell phones do NOT have to be the enemy. Convert the cell phones that so many students have on them into educational resources. www.polleverywhere.com allows students to answer a poll question by texting an answer...the professor can have the results embedded in powerpoint or accessible online and updated in real time.
Poll EverywherePoll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather li...- With so many results, and intersecting ideas, wordle.net composed powerful images that organizes words in a hierarchical structure that evaluates the most important ideas. Integrated with polleverywhere.com, this can provide structure to student comments is a way that would forcefully display common ideas.
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more fre...- Trying to follow specific conversations on twitter? Paper.li can be tailored to find the news information that you find interest, relevant or compelling. It can also be programmed to create a class newspaper.
Paper.li – Be a publisherPublish Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or any web content into an online newspaper. Paper.li monitors your content sources to update your pap...
Historypin | HomeHistorypin is the place where people come together to share their historical pictures and stories. Together we want to collect old photos...- EduContribution.orgEduContribution is about cooperation and mutually beneficial relationships. We're working with GIS. Find out what GIS is, and what it can...
- Map of APHumanGeog's Twitter followersMap APHumanGeog's followers by Country, State or city. Share your reports with friends
- Can't get YouTube through a school firewall? Download the videos from home.
YouTube Downloader - Software to download and convert YouTube videoYouTube Downloader lets you save videos from YouTube and play them on your computer, and best of all, it's free!- Where will these resources be thematically and regionally archived for future use by educators trying to plan lessons? At geographyeducation.org
