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Welcome to the Desmos Calculator! Use this calculator for graphing, for calculating, for sharing, for creating. Look on the right for help or inspiration. 

EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference Streamed Sessions | EDUCAUSE

great video of font production tool

When to use maps, when not. full post is worth a read, chock-full of examples.

George Siemens slide deck from EDUCAUSE 11

Open Educational Resources come in many shapes and sizes. This partial list of sources introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.

Twiducate is a free platform for creating your own micro social network in a Twitter-like format. Twiducate allows you to create a private network for posting assignments and messages to your students or other people you invite into your network.

Complete List of Google Earth Activities

it's no silver bullet. Surprise. Are we so gullible?

5 Free Web 2.0 Brainstorming Tools (from @enuffer) Bubbl.us Mindomo.com Wisemapping.com Mindmeister.com Mind42.com

Social media technologies and their ease of use make them attractive channels of communication. However, these tools also can open the possibility of unintended consequences. To enhance the effective use of these technologies, these guidelines draw upon examples of best practices from various institutions to outline the most appropriate use of social media. Due to the rapid changes in technology, this guideline may be reviewed and updated as needed.

A word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which the word or phrase appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases.

Long list of suggested classroom etiquette complete with student input

Mind mapping is a way of taking notes, capturing ideas, exploring concepts and breaking down information into a more readily understood format. 

You will find a significant amount of research that strongly supports the move to a learner centered teaching practice on this site. It also contains  all of my most recent presentations and more than 30 instructional resources designed to assist faculty and students in making the changes they will need to make if learner centered teaching is to be a successful learning practice for both groups.

PODs resource sharing google site.

How I used twitter to do something: find a kidney, save a bookstore, etc