Chromebooks are coming...tell us what you think

Have you heard of Chromebooks? Is it a laptop? Is it a computer? Or is it a new way of thinking as we go about our work day? Watch how Google introduces it in this 1.5 minute video.

CTL’s Recent Tweets

This past week Regent University's Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) Tweeted about:

• Google Chromebooks are lightweight notebooks that come with free software and hardware updates. You pay a monthly fee and Google updates the Chromebooks' software AND hardware at the end of each hardware cycle. This may be an option to explore for schools thinking of providing their students with notebooks or laptops.  
• How faculty and students can build a web presence for their professional selves, with free and easy to use software options available online.
• YouTube Copyright School, a 4.5 min. video clip that highlights copyright law; It packs a lot of information on how to avoid copyright infringement and details things that we might do when using YouTube which actually violate copyright law.
• A guide to social media marketing best practices that Facebook just published. It is applicable to things Faculty or students do online when it comes to marketing their courses, skills, etc.

• An infograph showing how teens are using their mobile phones.
• A 4 min. video clip on how to use Twitter which demystifies the idea of using Twitter. In just 4 minutes covers the basics of how to open an account to how to start Twetting, i.e., make a post on the Twitter social networking site.