We're excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

The content for this demonstration is drawn from Google's more than 74 Web logs. Most of the people with whom I speak are familiar with one or two of these publications. However, when monitoring Google's innovations, it is important to be able to get a quick view of what's new on each of these publications.

Long Beach, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 20, 2008 -- Moodlerooms, a full-service provider for Moodle, the popular open source online learning management system (LMS), announced today that it will be collaborating with the California State University to provide essential services such as hosting, training, and support for the CSU campuses that choose Moodle for their LMS needs. Moodlerooms will be one of two options, Angel Learning was also selected, to provide learning management services for the CSU.

Lately, I've encountered several searches that ended badly. That is, I could not find what I was looking for.

This course is for both experienced professionals and newcomers interested in e-learning and online teaching. This course introduces educators to e-learning and online teaching

Learn how to teach and assess writing more effectively and help students understand the 6-Traits of good writing (voice, ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency & conventions) and explore strategies to enable learners to progress through higher standards and improve test scores.

We as teachers don't always need to be re-inventing the wheel. A multitude of resources are available on the Internet that will help you with teaching using the Six Traits. Some quality links follow. Enjoy.

Game developer describes how classic lines from animal house fits his working world. When you think about it, the ideas fit the teacher's room as well!

Quality Matters created a set of forty specific elements, distributed across eight broad standards, by which to evaluate the design of online and hybrid courses. The web-based, fully interactive rubric is complete with annotations that explain the application of the standards and relationship between them. The eight broad standards include:

List of services that help you download Youtube video. It's useful to have a local copy of a video. For instance Blogger.com encourages you to upload video, rather than use the typical YouTube embed code.

Subtitled, your daily cheat sheet for education issues, this Ed oriented blog specializes in controversial stories about school. Provocative. This is tabloid blog journalism focused on public education. If an administrator has made a bone head move it will show up on Detention Slip. There's plenty of fodder out there!

ASCD's Blog is worth a visit. They do a great job of surveying Educational news.

It's the Internet, according to Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley University. Sterling notes that for many years writing has been neglected in schools, but the Internet has triggered an ``explosion of writing.''

A search engine that prompts the user to graphically assemble a query using a drag and drop puzzle interface. Clever and it does made the basic boolean operations more clear.

How can interaction be used effectively in online learning? To help you answer this question, we present video interviews with six experienced practitioners from across the disciplines. Each practitioner focuses on a particular aspect of online learning and suggests strategies for using interaction as a tool in online and Web-enhanced courses. The interviews are arranged to begin with the planning stage, proceed to online teaching in action, and end with an overview of the direction of online learning. Each interview is also available in audio and text versions and is accompanied by links to related resources.

Assessing the learner's progress is important. How else can we provide the best feedback or certify that the learner's met a certain level of understanding? That's why we need to ask the right questions. Avoid the following mistakes and you'll create a more effective learning experience.

What are the qualities that help instructors succeed when teaching online? That was the focus of a lively discussion at the 14th annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning Nov. 6.

Create live, scheduled or on-demand television in a single player widget. Mix multiple live cameras, video clips and overlay graphics in the Mogulus Studio. Get your own branded channel page with chat on mogulus.com.

Imagine online power point with audio and interactive webpages. Recommended by Bernie Dodge.

Create timelines, share them on the web. Timetoast is a great way to share your past, or even your future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be