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You can use this to put your course online if your institution doesn't have a course management system that you are required to use. Includes some of the "collaborate" additions.

The K-12 educators in this study engaged in true dialogue, where evidence of actual conversation occurred in Twitter over 61% of the time. Additionally, over 82% of the time, the educators in this study chose to follow other educators or content experts related to their field of teaching so they were able to create a personal learning network meaningful to their professional needs.

There are many ideas in this article that would help a language teacher thinking about having online students do oral presentations.

Resources to teach digitally are integrated all through the teacher preparation courses, and they have resources to try and show things with many different kinds of equipment.

funny animated video about the move from analog to digital classrooms; points out that just having the equipment doesn't change the way people teach; you still need to think about new pedagogy

Grockit - directions for making one from Nik Peachey

They repealed the law, but now leave restriction-setting up to the district.  Is that any better?

Video by Paul Hill on how to harness Twitter to build your PLN.

We should think about a few of these for the CARLA Tech SI (F2F). Some of them seem overlapping, but on the other hand, they give teachers more tools to choose from.

It looks very straightforward, and it's nice to have more tools... except for when it seems overwhelming. I think the only thing that makes it easier is to be able to eliminate tools due to cost or formatting that seems unsafe for K-12.

Abstract: Over just the past decade, online learning at the K-12 level has grown from a novelty to a movement. Often using the authority and mechanism of state charters, and in league with home schoolers and other allies, private companies and some state entities are now providing full-time online schooling to a rapidly increasing number of students in the U.S. Yet little or no research is available on the outcomes of such full-time virtual schooling. The rapid growth of virtual schooling raises several immediate, critical questions for legislators regarding matters such as cost, funding, and quality. This policy brief offers recommendations in these and other areas, and the accompanying legal brief offers legislative language to implement the recommendations.

Building a sense of community is really important to online learning.

This report provides national estimates about distance education courses in public school districts. The estimates presented in this report are based on a district survey about distance education courses offered by the district or by any of the schools in the district during the 2009-10 school year.

Wow

includes mp3, comprehension questions, vocab

website maintained by Judy Shoaf, director of the Language Learning Center at the University of Florida since 1993. She now writes a column on legal issues for the IALLT journal Language Learning and Technology