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This site provides information and resources to help students make an informed decision on which college to attend.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-II (KTS®-II) is a personality and career assessment tool that will make suggestions on careers that fit the students personality traits as answered in the assessment.

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.

Great assistive technology which makes reading the web more enjoyable by removing the clutter and graphics around what you are reading.

make paths through the web

Diagramming software for creating flowcharts and more.

Makes all kinds of diagrams neatly and easily

Gliffy.com is a web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings online. Great for students to make graphic organizers before writing.

This site has many movies suitable for use in the classroom. The quality of the movies are above average which makes them more engaging for the students.

Incredibly user friendly program to make digital stories.

One of the many awesome things that can be done on bighugelabs.com with a digital photo: make a magazine cover!

Blog with walk-through of some of the accessibility features in Windows

According to Scribd, "Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing company. " Scribd has over 75 million readers each month making it "the largest book club".

Lighthearted and simple. Not a source for real academic study but 3 min which helps to clarify. The best part is that he makes it very clear a PLN is not organized by anyone.

This article is actually a blog on connetivism. THe author of this post focuses on "sensemaking". He defines it as, Sensemaking is an activity that individuals engage in daily in response to uncertainty, complex topics, or in changing settings. Sensemaking is not about truth or right from wrong, bu rather about making information make sense.

Here is a great blog site from George Siemens where he posts on various topics in education and their relativity to connectivism. The blog has not been updated in some time, but there is still a lot of great info on the site.

This website page is the perfect summary of what Connectivism is and what it really represents. Stephen Downes states, "Learning is the creation and removal of connections between the entities, or the adjustment of the strengths of those connections. " This is probably the best resource I have found for truly understanding what Connectivism really is.

I like the discussion of empowered use. Someday our students will be using the Internet without our filters and without someone policing their movements. Will they know how to maximize technology for learning and productivity? Will they know what to do when they encounter a site that makes them uncomfortable? Not if we don't empower them now.

Make animated gifs from video for free. Make your own images with our Meme Generator or Animated GIF Generator.

Using these step by step instructions you can make an interactive quiz which you can embed into a website. Since the quiz is in Google Forms you can collect the information inputted into the forms in a Google spreadsheet.