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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The web is teeming with social and professional platforms where you can network with other professionals in your field most important of these platforms are Twitter, LinkedIn, and Researchgate. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

TeacherCast

You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. This is another handy online reference manager for both desktop and mobile devices. He will be happy to meet you on Facebook and Twitter. . He loves biking to distant places and occasionally he gets lost.

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

Learning with 'e's

Wikipedia is popular because it can be accessed from anywhere using a web enabled mobile phone. How long will it be before these media disrupt the hegemony the large publishing houses such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley currently impose upon the academic world? And when all factors are analysed, this should be no surprise.