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Lexia provides explicit, systematic, personalized learning on foundational reading skills for students of all abilities, and delivers norm-referenced performance data and analysis without interrupting the flow of instruction to administer a test. This site is awesome for the at-risk student who needs help mastering the more basic principles of reading.

Register for free as a teacher or have students register to create quizzes on this website to use in the classroom or online.

Smith, M. K. (2003) 'Communities of practice', the encyclopedia of informal education, www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htm . In this article, author, mike smith explains the beginning concepts that Jean Lave and Entienne Wenger developed for communities of practice. What I liked most about this article is it was the first reading I had that took communities of practice and put a learning centered spin on the theory. "Suppose learning is social and comes largely from our experience of participating in daily life. Their model of situated learning proposed that learning involves a process of engagement in a community of practice" (Smith, 2003). Mr. Smith defines and reiterates what Lave and Wenger argued, structure communities of practice. I also appreciated the time Mr. Smith took note the weaknesses that could be potential downfalls within their own research, such as "romanticizing communities of practice" as Mr. Smith puts it. "In their eagerness to debunk testing, formal education and formal accreditation, they do not analyze how their omission [of a range of questions and issues] affects power relations, access, public knowledge and public accountability" (Tennant 1997:79). He goes on to discuss organizational development and follows up with a conclusion that included the below phrase I really enjoyed. "Learning is in the relationships between people."(Smith, 2003) If you think about the history textbook version of what the authors and historians assumed thanksgiving was like and the weeks and days leading up to the day of thanks, you can see a great example of learning as a relationship between people.

This article is about Computer Based Instruction and how to design an online course for students who will be attending classes online. This article talks about creating an online classroom where the teacher communicates via the web only. This article offers eight guidelines for creating such a classroom. A few of the guidelines/tips that are offered is to orient students with the internet, have students select "email pals," and use computer based testing.

While commanding the ISS, Hadfield used social media like Twitter and YouTube to get people excited about space and, in this interview, shares why he thinks it was so effective

Students drew their monsters and wrote a description of them. Then, they skyped their monster exchange partner to share their description. As they shared their description, their partner would draw what they visualized. The projects turned out very nice! Check it out!

Chris Yonke supports the Aug. 6 bond referendum in part because of proposed improvements to technology that helped his students improve test scores.

SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge, an educational version of the popular city-building video game, is a known quantity in a fresh wave of serious learning games that bridge the gap between instruction and assessment. These multimedia tools provide teachers with better assessment tools than written exams.

As students construct personal learning environments, teacher instruction and support is likely to be needed. PLE's must be constructed based on needs, and students may or may not be able to articulate what their learning needs are.

Today, students already have personal learning environments, but as teachers we have the ability to forge new pathways to learning by utilizing what kids already know and modeling collaboration and exploration.

Wow! What a cool article. I really enjoyed the picture of the Networked student. This article is like a how to for a teacher wanting to teach the 21st century student. It makes me wonder if our school system should provide a class on how to set up a method for each student to display their learning or their personal learning environment.

The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. Questions on the contests never require any mathematics beyond the grade level tested. They're fun too! In addition, clicking on the 'Help Facility' link offers students, parents, and teachers additional strategies for review and explanation of key skills.

Have your students design, create, and test logic diagrams without the need of a breadboard or other electrical equipment. They can see in real time the effects of applying or removing power to gates.

A great resource for teachers that use MAP standardized testing, with links to various math activities according to RIT scores of students. (Week 1, Link 2 for EdTech541)

Create polls for students to answer or test questions with group polls using cell-phones. Great educational tool for higher ed.

This is a student response system that allows students to text their answers in, making lectures more interactive without expensive clicker systems

Add polls to your presentation.

This is an online Drill & Practice site to work on keyboarding skills. It's fun to test your skills against others in a keyboarding race.