Dr. Kelvin Thompson works to make online and blended learning even better a little bit every day. Kelvin writes, speaks, and consults within the US higher education community. He has also created a number of resources at UCF for use by others (e.g., the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository; the Faculty Seminars in Online Teaching; and the BlendKit Course). He also co-hosts the popular “TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast.” As executive director of UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning, he assures the successful operation and strategic goal meeting of this 80 member organization.
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- Use Social Bookmarking to Organize and Share Online ResourcesDescription Social bookmarking allows users to search, manage, organize, and save web content for personal use to revisit and/or share with others. This…