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Essential program for sound design and interfaces with many boards for performances. The tutorial is excellent and worth the price by itself. Great for 9-12 high school Theater classes, and Drama clubs.

SAMR Wheel designed for use with the ipad

SUMMARY: MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are designed to take advantage of social networks and track the learning of specific topics and specific users across tools, sites, apps, and more. MOOCs can be a part of your PLE, or your PLE can be an integral part of your MOOCs. Either way, Connectivism is at the heart of every MOOC.

Cate - After watching this video, I found MOOC to be very similar to what we are doing in this class. Engaging in the learning process and connecting/collaborating with one another. However, there are differences, such as - we do pay for this course! Overall, great social networking tool for learners. Thanks for sharing.

Cate, I liked this post. It was nice to get to listen instead of read, read, read. I found the information interesting. I had never heard of a MOOC or at least not identified as one. It fit perfectly with the connectivism. I found his comment about promoting life long network learning valuable. We are there, might as well take advantage of the opportunities.

This journal article titled: Personal Learning Environments - Challenging the Dominant Design of Educational Systems was posted by one of the authors, Colin Milligan. The paper looks at the formal and informal learning and the connections that lead specific learnings of both types and how VLEs (virtual learning environments) play a role.

I found this to be a fascinating paper, which really made me reflect on how an LMS is and is not a good portal as a PLE. I particularly appreciated the diagram on page 4, which shows how technological tools such as tunneling, feeds and APIs can be used to turn a VLE into more of a PLE.

Interactive, webquest style website designed to teach students about nutrition and eating well.

Webquest designed to help students navigate through various websites while teaching them about online shopping and healthy eating habits.

This site contains articles that relate to issues affecting developers of educational systems and the educators who implement and manage these systems. The articles contain information related to the perspectives of both of these communities and how they relate to each other.

Abstract: Student Response Technology (SRT) involves the use of hand-held remotes by students during classroom lectures to electronically respond to questions. This study surveyed 350 students enrolled in one of 13 lower-division university science classes taught by five different instructors who used SRT. The survey probed students' perceptions of SRT in terms of enhancing student learning, and investigated which features of SRT students felt had the greatest/least impact on student learning. The majority of students reported that the SRT increased their content understanding, class participation, alertness, and interactions with fellow students, helped with examination preparation, provided important and immediate instructor feedback, and made class more enjoyable. Students in this study scored more positively than peer groups on survey questions related to student engagement in academic and intellectual experiences, suggesting that SRT helps to promote student engagement. Important instructor actions identified during this study that augment the enhancing effects of SRT on student learning, even in large lecture settings, include designing clear, substantive questions, reviewing correct and incorrect answers with students, and making pedagogical adjustments based on class responses.

This nonprofit site not only provides information on international heroes for students, but it also requests student reporters. Reports can be written or videos can be created. Pictures can also be uploaded.

Ashley Leneway Week 2, Link 2

This website is designed to teach about heroes and humanity. People can submit essays, art or films they have created about a hero of their choosing.

A website designed for problem solving about environmental issues.  There are many activities to browse through.

An adventure series and website based on NCTM standards, designed to help kids develop mathematical problem solving and reasoning skills.

Ashley Leneway Week 2, Link 1

The power point presentation to 2007 article titled: A User Interface Design Rubric for Evaluating E-Learning Applications

Resources to support UDL

Special Issue - Connectivism: Design and Delivery of Social Networked Learning: This article supports the idea that Web 2.0 tools help teacher connect with wider educational communities to enhance their own professional development.

Tim Needles' class If you need inspiration on ways you can add art, design, or creative student projects to your class, check out this website.

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