UDL Book Builder is a great tool to create and publish digital books designed to support learners by using universal design for learning principles. Multiple points of entry, visual, auditory, vocabulary hyperlinks, and thought-provoking questions can be embedded to scaffold learning for all students.

Nice reflection on using technology as part of active learning in the classroom.

This site is a repository for quality educational apps. Great place to find tools to use in your classroom.

Google Play for Education is not just a new search engine.  Google is poising itself to compete with Apple in the Education market.  Really like that apps can be pushed out across multiple devices with one click.  

This is the 2010 National Education Technology Plan summary.  While very broad, it does "Encourage states, districts, P-12 programs, and postsecondary education institutions to experiment with such resources as online learning, online tutoring and mentoring, games,  cognitive tutors, immersive environments, and participatory communities and social networks both within and across education institutions to give students guidance and  information about their own learning progress and strategies for seamless completion of a comprehensive P-16 education."

Looking to add visual interest to your lesson? Pinterest may be your solution! The article suggests ways in which this visual social media site can be used in the classroom and promotes SPACE - an acronym that helps students to remember the "best" uses for the site. This is interesting in terms of reaching students with varied learning styles and intelligences, developing creativity and higher order thinking, and more. However, like most tools the site does have its downfalls. It tends to be more engaging for females than males, which brings about an interesting gender debate. Its use also falls into fuzzy copyright issues - none of which are different from other social media sites. Check out the article & let me know what you think!

The end of LIFO policy in Ohio and other states.

Interesting experiment on customized learning.  

This is an interesting court decision regarding the use of social media.  I find the decision that socia media is now considered a part of normal conversation an important line drawn in the sand.  I wonder if this decision was made before the "drunken pirate" issue with the young student teacher being denied her licence if there would have been a change in her ruling. 

Oh yeah!  Star Wars has arrived.  Just imagine the possibilities for this technology in the classroom.  Can you just imagine having world famous leaders from every discipline recording a 3D hologram session and then being able to "invite" them to your classroom.  Could lead to a whole new download section in iTunes....

How can the power of gaming be used to increase learning?  

A great example of disrupting class with technology! 

Awesome civics resources!  Once again, games/simulations can promote learning

Does social media = social activism?

The debate over teacher/student friendships on facebook continues.  What do you think?

Microsoft Office or Google Docs?

Does games-based learning really work in educational settings? 

How intelligent can artificial intelligence get?