Pennsylvania Coaches

What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use.  Beautiful.

Just amazingly executed. I think I'm going to make this my annual professional development goal to get this sort of thing started here.

HOLY INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING RESOURCES, BATMAN!  So many simple, effective download-edit-and-use right away ideas on this wiki.  I could have used this 5 years ago!  

One of the best diagrams to help you quickly grok the Drupal content management system!  Swedes to the rescue!

From the author: "another list of  some equally important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching. I have added a list of web tools under each skill for teachers to better exploit it."

What does the research say about school one-to-one computing initiatives?

musings on the hard-to-define role of the instructional technologist

Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities. Personal learning environments offer an alternative, but with their own limitations. An open learning network helps bridge the gap between the PLE and the LMS, combining the best elements of each approach. The initial implementation of an OLN at Brigham Young University represents a new learning platform model in higher education.

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content to support high school, advanced placement and higher education studies.

The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

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