CTAP Siskiyou Web 2.0

"You can get 80 percent of higher education online for free, so why would you spend $300,000?" http://t.co/vBLNg80GFF #edchat - MOOCS - open education is making a move into the educational markets

Sometimes this is the way we feel with events outside of our control.

Here is an inspirational image. I'll use this in professional development settings and to encourage my PLN members.

"NY Times writers collaborated with the Common Sense Media writer Kelly Schryver to focus on the increasingly important and nuanced question "Who Are You Online?" Times and Learning Network content as well as offerings from Common Sense Media's K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum for teaching and learning about this complex issue." Lots of avenues to take this material in working with students.

LDC offers a framework for building the college-and-career-ready literacy skills specified by the Common Core State Standards. There are some excellent inquiry units under modules tab - all for secondary years.

"A lot of instructors are under the impression that they are successfully integrating technology, when in fact they are simply using technology. Although this might seem to some as just semantics, in my opinion there is a huge difference between the two - a difference that can be seen in the impact the technology usage has on student learning." See the chart

Branch Diagram overview covering definitions, theories, references for teachers. Helpful tool for a quick look at learning and learning theories. Might be helpful for beginning pysch. students as well.

Nice step by step instructions for creating and using Google Drive folders to distribute resources to your students. Includes screenshots.

Katlin Tucker, a dynamic high school teacher presents her approach-pedagogy-instructional strategies to transform teaching and learning. She demonstrates ways she helps engage students and grow skills in several areas, including communication, comprehension & critique, collaboration, content knowledge, etc. A couple of her main tools include Collaborize Classroom and Google Docs. 

Example of how a school librarian is using Pinterest to share resources with students and teachers in her middle school.

Linda Yollis, an award-winning 3rd grade teacher, made this video with her students to share how they have used blogs to learn the importance of connecting online with others online, about Digital Footprints and Internet safety, and sharing their voice. I think you'll enjoy it and hopefully think about the ways you encourage students to make their writing/learning visible and connect with others, whether it be a blog or an interactive online discussion. 

Richard Byrne shares five skills that will really benefit teachers who use or want to use Google Drive. Google Drive takes some getting used to, but provides some great flexibility you will not get in a server based environment, in my opinion.

Four things you may not have known you can do with your Youtube account. You will be surprised!

"The website features thousands of videos of people describing and engaged in doing their jobs. The idea for the website was created in response to teens saying they do not know what people really do in their jobs, and therefore find it difficult to decide on a career direction.

Fantastic video on the power of how what we share with others can be more impacting than we think....after all, they may not seem special to us, but the idea may inspire something in someone else.  I wonder if that's how our peers and students feel, too.

Wonderful reflective expression on ETMOOC using adjectives and research that connects with each. Certainly supports the learning environment and outcomes so many of us have experienced. 

Nice explanation of MOOCs. This is a new wave in online learning and professional development. It emphasizes the power of networked learning, as well.

Great tool for scheduling a Google+ hangout. Gives those you invite a few date options and allows you to schedule the hangout based on how invitees respond, or you can have the scheduler set up the event based on the responses you receive. 

Amazing tablet for education - making digital learning & use of curated resources/tools an integral part of the device. Pricing currently @$299/device plus $99 annual fee. Great management/deployment capabilities. Definitely worth looking at.

The next generation of the graphing calculator. Using a powerful and blazingly-fast math engine, the calculator can instantly plot any equation, from lines and parabolas up through derivatives and Fourier series. Data tables open up a world of curve-fitting and modeling. Sliders make it a breeze to demonstrate function transformations. As browser-based html5 technology, the graphing calculator works on any computer or tablet without requiring any downloads.