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"Guest edited by Dr Yishay Mor, Senior Lecturer at the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology (UK), and Tapio Koskinen, Director of the eLearning Papers Editorial Board, MOOCs and Beyond seeks to both generate debate and present a variety of perspectives about this new popular learning model."

High school English teacher shares how she plans on using QR codes to switch to a whole fiction approach to novels and literature in the classroom. 

Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Free Technology for Teachers. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.  Great for reinforcing a topic on internet safety, social netiquette, social skills etc.

High School teacher Jennifer Barnett uses the metaphor for a closet to identify the role of her tech tools as well as organize them for reference. 

Create your own quiz show -- entirely online, no need to download anything or upload files.

Online collaboration with Google apps

wikispaces, poll everywhere, edmodo,screencast, Celly,dropbox, youtube, twitter,evernote, teaching channel

Classroom resources

From the site: "Gives birth to an instant, engaged community around any topic."

Ask a question, brainstorm, debate, prioritize at this site.

As we are moving to the end of the year, it might be fun for those of us with seniors to have them send themselves an email, to be delivered on a specific date in the future. You can do that (as long as you keep the same email address) at this site.

Interesting concept--write a letter to yourself and have it delivered at a future date.