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"Here is a new video from EDUCAUSE with four experts and me addressing the question, "Why is measuring learning difficult?" Some good reflections on learning analytics, data, MOOCs, testing, pyschometrics, and more. I think the video has a nice balance of humility and optimism. Learning is much more complex than we can ever really pin down, but that doesn't mean that we can conduct meaningful assessments that lets students and mentors identify their learning experiences as, as Gardner Campbell says, find new doorways forward. "

Chemistry videos, organized by periodic table

Google Forms just got even better.  Now you can customize the theme.  This video shows you how.

This is a description of powerful ways to use Thinglink with video in your classroom.

Video sessions from ISTE.  50 of the zillions of options during the conference are available for a year.  Teri and I can recommend this conference highly and warmly encourage you to check out some of these amazing talks!

CommonCraft style video on Blended Learning.  We don't have a formal LMS, so teachers have to create the suggested uses of Web 2.0 tools to foster creativity, and collect data in ways that make sense in their classrooms.

Check out Google's new tool for taking data (i.e. coffee growers world wide) and turning into a map.  Very interesting.  Nice follow up to the Gapminder video.

Khan as teacher-centered lectures, not student-centered learning.  Still, the videos could support independent learners.

art history teachers:  explore the education resources; lesson plans, video tours, etc.

5 lessons using MLK I Have a Dream in conjuntion with Nikkii iGiovanni's Poem "The Funeral of MLK".  Nice companion piece to the YouTube video of his speech.  Thanks to Mary Benton!

Street artist using fingers and glass to create pictures in minutes.  Remember Bob Ross on PBS?  Here's a 21st C version, dreads and all.

YouTube video of MLK and I Have a Dream speech.  Shows march, crowds, Washington  as well.  over 17 minutes long.  Recommended by our own Mary Benton!

Between adaptive software that can present and assess mastery of content, video games and simulations that can engage kids on a different level, and mobile technologies and online environments that allow learning to happen on demand, we need to fundamentally rethink what we do in the classroom with kids. (personal communication, October 1, 2011)

SuperSylvia has a wonderful series of videos where a young girl has her own makerspace, called mini maker show.

This is a video of an online meeting I had with several educators around the state.  Bram, the moderator from Danville, has created a wonderful Inspiration presentation considering many aspects of eportfolios.

Makes connections between topics. Ultimately it is a book store, but it might be incredibly useful in research to expand thinking on different topics. It has a wealth of videos (free) but it is the connections it draws between topics that is so fascinating.

You can keep the pace moving in class with this timer.  If you have students sharing in rapid succession, you don't need to re-set the timer, for example.  You can jazz it up by adding theme music or videos.  Handy tool to manage the class and look pretty cool!  Thanks to Richard Byrne.