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The David Rumsey Map Collection is a great resource for historical maps, and the Georeferencer feature is a cool way to overlay historic maps over a modern map and adjust the opacity to compare the two.

UsabilityFirst provides a helpful list of the various types of accessibility aids.

Anyone who has a disability and uses a Mac, wants to buy one, or who teaches or assists others with disabilities who use a Mac can benefit from Apple's list of Accessibility features.

This was a very interesting read, which highlights several issues related to copyright...some things I had not even considered with consideration to online digital tools.

For those who haven't explored it yet, Google Earth's Voyager feature is a great resource for geography and mapping activities to integrate into lessons. (Launch in the Chrome browser).

Larry Ferlazzo is an ELL teacher who has amassed a huge collection of resources including his "Best Of…" lists. There are a lot of good ideas here, not just for ELL/ESL teachers.

The Big6 model is designed to help build information problem-solving and decision making skills, and is "completely transferable to any grade level, subject area, or workplace."

The Microsoft Accessibility website provides information on tools available for vision, hearing, neurodiversity, learning, mobility and mental health areas in Windows 10.

This helpful article discusses the pros and cons of peer teaching.

Does exactly what it says - provides five different ideas for how you can use Google Docs in the classroom.

Provides a number of reasons, with relevant links, to explain why using spreadsheets in the classroom is a good idea.

This is a list of trainings with a synopsis of each training given by Google. The site breaks down the trainings by knowledge level, tool, and certification.

Social media tools provide a whole new way to have students learn. Here is a list of 100 different ideas educators can use to incorporate social media into the K-12 classroom.

This is a website that specifically helps educators use YouTube in the classroom. With some many videos already out there, YouTube is a powerful tool. This site helps pair specific videos to specific topics.

Provides tips for engaging college students on social media, including creating hashtags for individual courses and collecting course feedback in real time.

Pretty good blog for learning about online education. Check out her 3rd post on using social media to create meaningful learning assignments.

This article focuses on helpful techniques anyone (including educators) can use with Google spreadsheets. Formulas, forms, chatting, and shortcuts are explained along with tutorials and resources.

This article outlines PLNs as a tool for teachers to take charge of their professional development. It discusses what a PLN is, how to develop one, and what a teacher can gain from participating in one. The biggest take away from this article for me is to have clearly defined goals prior to joining a PLN.

This article talks about how connectivism is important and valid, but should be used as a tool in the learning process and not as a standalone learning theory.

This article looks at connectivism from the standpoint of learning theory. It discusses the essential criteria for a learning theory or an instructional theory and the differences between a learning theory and an instructional theory in the context of connectivism. The article make an effort to explain connectivism as a learning theory of digital age.

This article gives a really interesting look at connectivism as a learning theory vs an instructional theory. It brings out many studies and prior theories to look further into connectivism in education.

This article describes five major issues in the design and implementation of online communities of practice. The common theme in these five articles is they all focus on the online communication process, and they all try to understand how CoPs, as a reflective tool, can help improve professional practice.

While this article provides examples of communities of practice in action and provides easy to understand definitions it also discusses ways in which CoP's can be sustained. It's one thing to understand their purpose or how to get them started but what do we do once they are up and running? How can we keep a CoP going for say multiple school years rather than diminish over time?