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Synopsis of Innosight Institute report.  Link to pdf full white paper.  Cutting edge analysis of k-12 blended learning models.  A must read for any educator working with blended learning.

White Paper on 21st Century Skills Learning Environments:\n\nThis white paper has been created to provide an overview of research and expert opinion on 21st century learning environments, one of the four support systems in the Partnership‟s 21st Century Skills Framework. Its purpose is to offer a descriptive view of the places, tools, people, and policies that make up 21st century learning environments and, we hope, inspire its readers to work towards their realization.

Michael, Thanks for letting your readers know about our program. I am the advisor for the E--Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate program. I also wrote and teach two of our 5 classes, E-Learning for Educators and the E-Learning Practicum. Our graduate classes are offered by the University of Wisconsin Stout, School of Education. (We are not an extension program.) I'm delighted to be able to talk with those interested in K-12 Virtual Education. I was a public school teacher for 25 years before I went fully online. Working online has been a journey of discovery and a constant reminder of the joys of being a lifetime learner. As you mention we do mix together all kinds of educators in our classes. A typical course will include K-12 classroom teachers, some K-12 online teachers and a good number of community college and university instructors. We also see health educators and some corporate trainers. Folks join us from around the country and the world. It's an eclectic mix of people who all share an interest in teaching online. Our goal is to help people become experienced professional online teachers as a way to expand and grow their careers. To accommodate everyone's interests we have our materials highly differentiated. K-12 teachers have the option of investigating the great resources from iNacol. They are encouraged to build useful quizzes and surveys and to craft discussion prompts as they practice facilitation skills. The topics for all projects are learner selected. We emphasize a practical hands on approach where participants can use what they learn and make right away. The great thing is to see a strong community of practice develop between all kinds of educators. Everyone is richer for it. When it comes to the E-Learning Practicum, I customize each student's experience. I have managed some placements with K-12 Virtual Schools. More often, K-12 teachers take one of two options. Both involve teaching with one of our cooperating

Professional Website Development Agency India,is a premier web development company with a proven service that brings great benefits. They have a team of highly dynamic, energetic and talented SEO developers who will give their full dedication and effort to create and develop a website that works and produce good results.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

"Web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more."

The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development., You can view the list here: Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 I've also categorised the Top 100 tools by type of tool - and you can view that list here: Learning Toolbox 2008 I'm now working on the free Summary PDF, and that should be available shortly to download. I've...

Palo Alto High School Online Journalism Site. Excellent example of authentic student work.

"This website has a collection of short, simple and fun video clips to correctly define and provide examples of around 800 words in context. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. The students are encouraged to play with words,create their own vocabulary videos and upload their work to the website. Teachers may direct activities and assign word projects to the students. The Study Room allows personalized list creation and sharing. Visitors can also sign up to receive a word of the day in the email."

"PBS KIDS Island is designed for reading practice, from letter recognition to reading words. The island is an amusement park filled with reading games, in which players work on reading skills to earn tickets to get prizes to decorate their tree house and to unlock new rides and games."

Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own 'Picasso' by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.

Sharing student work is important. Why is it not encouraged?

Teachers need to work efficiently and collaborate creatively. Dropbox helps you do that.

My most recent post about how I had my students use Diigo to assess thinking and learning in their blog writing.

Fine work Steve. I'll use this with my online class: teaching and assessing writing with the six traits. I'm planning to introduce Diigo to writing teachers this summer. I'll be sharing your blog with my students as well. Keep up the great work! ~ Dennis

Create, edit, and share digital stories. Works with most digital devices.

Multitasking often gives us the feeling of being productive, doing numerous things at once. But does it really works? Studies revealed multitasking can actually result in losing 20-30% of your productive time.

This online game is a favorite! It works great on your interactive whiteboard, too!

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation