Carnegie Foundation's Gallery of Teaching and Learning: a great teaching portfolio tool - use webpages and narrative reflections to do teaching studies and add to your portfolio
"understanding how to leverage tech in your teaching and learning situation is critical to developing PLNs. While in the past, we were limited by the occasions that served as "learning experiences," in the 21st century, learning isn't restricted to a special event bound by time and place"
Ed Leadership. Dec 2009. When students track their progress. by Robert Marzano; "Fuchs and Fuchs1 found that providing teachers with graphic displays of students' scores on formative assessments was associated with a 26 percentile point gain in achievement."
"harvesting gradebooks" grab student work from whereever Students actually do their work - rather than building fortresses around work (like Blackboard)