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My toolkit is filled with tools I use regularly, but one of my personal favorite learning platforms is Wikispaces because it's a simple tool that has many useful features for designing and implementing Common Core aligned learning experiences.

A great post about ThingLink, Microsoft and Vocabulary

A Toolkit  designed to provide innovative ideas and support for using interactive graphics for teaching and learning.

One of the more unfortunate buzzwords to appear in online education circles and the press is "flipping the classroom". .. The students watch the videos for homework, freeing up the lesson for interactivity, project work and so on. I not impressed with this brilliant "new" idea. Why not?

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"It is crucial to recognize that inquiry-based teaching should not be viewed as a technique or instructional practice or method used to teach a subject. Rather, inquiry starts with teachers as engaged learners and researchers with the foundational belief that the topics they teach are rich, living and generous places for wonder and exploration." (para. 4, retrieved 2012.11.23)

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Canada's centre for digital and media literacy

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SMILEY - Social Mindedness in Learning Community is project funded within the domain of Lifelong Learning Programme in Europe. The aim of SMILEY is to implement awareness‐raising program in schools realizing the specific course facing the most current social topics. It helps teachers to deal with the social problem issues, such as bullying and to face possible students' violent attitudes through enjoyable online ERPG (Edu Role‐playing Game) developed according the pupils' social awareness. The title of this friendly educational game is "Your Town" and short DEMO you can easily access through the following link http://smileyschool.eu/demo/ Game is for free and is already available in English, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish language. Currently there are already 80 schools across the EU involved in this project and we have got very positive feedbacks both from children and teachers.

SMILEY - Social Mindedness in Learning Community implements awareness‐raising program in schools realizing the specific course facing the most current social topics. It helps teachers to deal with the social problem issues, such as bullying and to face possible students' violent attitudes through enjoyable online ERPG (Edu Role‐playing Game) developed according the pupils' social awareness. The title of this friendly educational game is "Your Town" and short DEMO you can easily access through the following link http://smileyschool.eu/demo/ Game is for free and is already available in English, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish language. Currently there are already 80 schools across the EU involved in this project and we have got very positive feedbacks both from children and teachers.

Ten months ago I published a Digital Differentiation model on this blog. I've been using the model to guide the work I do each day and I've been sharing it via webinars and hands-on training sessions. Ten months is a long time in the world of edtech, and I've added some new tools and resources to my personal teaching toolkit, so I decided it was time to update the model and tweak it just a bit.

I have been creating a lot of student projects that use ThingLink as a tool for learning. I have also received a handful of of questions from teachers who are highly interested in facilitating a similiar project of their own, but need help with the management involved. "With so much active student engagement, how do you manage a project like this?"