An Excellent Podcast for Higher Education Faculty

The #HigherEd hashtag on Twitter is one of the key channels I follow to stay abreast with the latest trends and topics of discussion for a variety of higher education contexts.  A few months ago, I ran across a link with the #HigherEd hashtag to a podcast episode talking about the value and challenges of recording videos for classroom instruction.  This episode, entitled  PA025: Recording Videos for Your Classes, was part of the Professional Adjunct Podcast series.  After listening to several recent and past episodes, I would highly recommend any faculty member, from adjunct to full professor, interested in best practices and teaching/learning in general to subscribe to this podcast.  Users can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, Android, or any RSS reader.  Enjoy!

A Key #EdTech Blog I Follow

One of the most useful blogs I have been following for many years now is Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne.  The main characteristic that qualifies this as a blog is that the latest post, common in most social media services/tools, is always at the top of the page.  A second characteristic is that I can subscribe to it.  Third, I can search to an archive of past postings.  Lastly, blogs are reflective of Web 2.0 meaning that we are now creators of content, not just passive readers of content (i.e. Web 1.0 such as the AOL and Netscape days).  This blog's primary purpose is to share free technology resources for teachers that can have implications for classroom instruction.  Although there tends to be a K-12 focus, I have found that most of the resources can be used in higher education as well.  Mr. Byrne is a former high school teacher so that's part where the K-12 theme comes from.  To keep up-to-date with postings, I subscribe to the RSS feed using Feedly.  With Feedly (I migrated to this tool when Google Reader retired), I can subscribe to multiple blogs related to instructional/educational technology and see the posts on one single page.  Over the years, I have frequently re-posted links to these originating blog postings to several social media channels such as Twitter and Diigo in order to share my findings to a much larger audience.