How Social Networking Helps Teaching (and Worries Some Professors) - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education (tags: social_media Twitter Facebook instructional_technology)

Ten Ways to Record a Screencast from your Compure Some of the choices are free (limited use) and others paid. The one that I use is also the one they rate #1, "ScreenFlow." It costs about $100 and is feature rich. It is the one to buy. (tags: screen_capture instructional_technology)

From Access To Success: A funder's guide to higher education A report on how the planned giving community is targeting more resources to support college completion efforts. The report provides recommendations for improvement of graduation with special attention for developmental-level courses. (tags: college_completion foundations learning_assistance,_de,_access developmental_level_courses)

OCR Those PDFs Make them searchable - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education (tags: PDF_documents searchable)

Rebuilding the Remedial Bridge to College Success Describes how the Education Commission of the States along with the Lumina Foundation is working to improve developmental-level courses that are often essential for students to bridge into college with success. (tags: developmental_level_courses learning_assistance,_de,_access Lumina_Foundation GettingPastGo Education_Commission_of_the_States)

Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without (tags: social_media instructional_technology on)

The Alumni Organization Social Network Matrix: 18 Use Cases - alumni futures (tags: alumni college_graduates social_media)

18 Ways to use Social Media with College Alumni (tags: social_media alumni college_graduates)

Technology Enhanced Learning University College Falmouth Lots of resources related to instructional technology by professionals from the U.K. (tags: instructional_technology social_media apps)

Learning Technology professionals on Twitter A list of 100 instructional technology professionals. (tags: Twitter instructional_technology social_media)

Liking the NGA's Tune on "Complete to Compete" - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week The National Governors Association is promoting increased college completion with existing resources and without lowering quality. (tags: college_completion NGA)