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Something useful - a plugin for Wordpress to integrate FB, Google+ and any social media services. It integrate with every Wordpress design. How fun!

The Facebook plugin for WordPress adds Facebook social plugins to your WordPress site. Associate your WordPress site with a free Facebook application identifier to enable advanced features such as automatically sharing new posts to an author's Facebook Timeline or your site's Facebook Page.

Create a simple and decent wordpress webpage with just click, drag. It is great for introducing this to younger school student.

What a faculty member is discovering about moving to Google Sites after moving away from an LMS and WordPress.

My two-cents: This resource seems strong on technical how-to, but is weak on structure and strategy. Barrett's resource is less fancy looking but has better content.

A Canadian school principal shares how he and his students use WordPress as blogfolios.

Students can easily download a document from Edmodo, use it in another app (like a PDF annotation app) and then upload it again onto Edmodo to submit it as an 'assignment'. This solves the whole 'work-flow' problem that many teachers faced upon the introduction of iPads into the classroom. Worksheets, handouts, task sheets, graphic organizers, anything you want the students to work on, just upload it into your library, add it to a folder that you share with the students or attach it to a post, then they access it and open it in another app. Once they have finished, they need to upload it into their 'backpacks' and then submit it as an attachment to an 'assignment' that you posted.

Some free courses to learn about pbWorks, Edmodo, voice threads and more.  It uses camtasia to slice video into segments so that you can watch at your own time.

For IDs, Eveleen and Yeu Ann... here's an article on mobile learning framework for your reference and info.

Emerging technologies for near future. :)

For greater focus, check out the K-12 Horizon Reports each year. This is a link to the 2012 report: http://www.nmc.org/publications/2012-horizon-report-k12

A Moodle tip from a model instructor.

Good critique of misunderstandings of the flipped classroom and a viable model for flipping.

An instructor reflects on whether or not to have a separate discussion forum or an embedded one. She also shares her thoughts on promoting discussion in forums or blogs.

For Henry & the rest who are interested in flipping the classroom...