Learn about Social Media in Education by Educators' Technology Website

If you are interested in using social media for your teaching, there are lots of useful links offering advice from http://www.educatorstechnology.com .A great site worth checking out!

I have noted a few below:

Twitter Functions and Terminology

• Excellent Visual Outlining Twitter Basics for Teachers
• Awesome Twitter Cheat Sheet for Teachers
• Interesting Twitter Acronyms Cheat sheet for Teachers
• 5 Wonderful Twitter Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students

Using Twitter for Teaching

• 50+ Ways to Use Twitter in Your Classroom
• Great Graphic on 20 Ways to Use Twitter with your Students

Facebook Guide for Educators

• The Ultimate Guide to The Use of Facebook in Education
• Teacher's Guide to Creating Facebook Group for Students
• A Must Read Guide Entitled " Facebook for Educators and Community Leaders"

Curation and sharing of information

Scoopit is an excellent tool for searching the internet and finding websites that are related to particular topics. You can create a topic for your own scoops and you can also follow other peoples scoops. Using automated searching, the site will check a selected range of sites and automatically identify articles.sites that may be of interest.

Examples:

http://www.scoop.it/t/teaching-and-learning-by-karenpinney
http://www.scoop.it/t/flipped-classroom-by-karenpinney

Screencasting is the recording of a computer screen (with voice over) as a video that can be shared and made available on the internet. There are lots of free and paid for tools you can use - a few are listed below.  

Screenr Screenr is very simple web based software that enables users to record their computer screen with voice over which can then be saved and shared with others.

Screencast-o-MaticScreen recording software Screencast-o-Matic enables users to record their computer screen and upload the recording to the internet. You can add captions to the video, share it, upload it to YouTube or save the video as an MP4, AVI, or flash video.

CamStudio (Windows) – Free Windows only, open-source, screencasting software. It is easy to use, good if you just want a quick recording from your screen

Productivity: Evernote

There are a lot of different online tools that can be used to support everyday tasks. 

Evernote developers, on their website say, "When we launched Evernote into public beta in June of 2008, we had two crazy goals: create an external brain that makes everyone smarter, and build a hundred year startup. Hard to believe that it’s been five years since that day!" 

Evernote enables users to save documents, internet sites, text, tweets, voice recordings etc in one place. This tool enables users to create notebooks (file areas) that information can be stored in and to tag the files saved for later searching and retrieval. Notebooks can be shared with others electronically. There are both free and premium versions of this tool and apps for mobile use too.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a hot, current topic in education. There are a lot of plagiarism checkers that you can use to check students' work and Turnitin is used by a number of institutions but there are also free online sites that students might want to use to check their work before submitting it. Grammarly, Viper, Plag Tracker, Dupli Checker, Plagium are just a few of these. You may want to have a look at them to see if they are of use to you.

Free online courses

There are now lots of free online courses provided by respected universities. Coursera is one of the, check it out there are a range of different subjects covered.

Scoop.it

Scoop.it lets you identify a topic you are intereste in and will search the internet for related information. It allows you to scoop what you find interesting into your personalised informationsite which you can share. Great for creating topic related 'newspapers' online.