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This site converts YouTubes into different formats. This is useful for embedding into Power Point presentations.

save files from youTube... YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE OR EVEN DOWNLOAD the program. just put the URL of the youtube (or other video source) in top bar and click "DOWNLOAD"...you can save as .mp4s, .flvs...

Downloadable templates for Excel, aimed at elementary language arts and social studies

Online typing game that helps teach kids keyboarding skills. There is also a full downloadable version that has more features, levels, and enhanced graphics. Grab it at http://www.shockwave.com/services/download.jsp?keyword=typershark&promoCode=SiteShockwaveLandingPage

This downloadable handbook contains background articles and suggested practices on how to best engage families in their children's education. It was published in 2011 with funding and support from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to the Academic Development Institute and the Center on Innovation & Improvement.

This website allows you to create floor plans for houses. Although it limits you to one floor plan with the free version, you are able to create a floor plan and download or print it, then delete to make a new one. I am excited to try this out in my Spanish classroom when we discuss houses.

Students take collaborative notes in Today's Meet. This way they get some of the things they may have missed and are able to ask clarifying questions. Students can use Today's Meet as a backchannel discussion for in class discussions, small group discussions, collaboration, etc, and then download the transcript as a more permanent record.

Graphic and description of the Framework for 21st Century Learning. Downloads include student outcomes and support systems. Great resource for Technology Integration Specialists.

This site is a great source for free downloads for students. This is a great source of free software if you are a student.

Here is the book that fully explores how children learn in social, informal settings. It is the result of a three year study and is available as a free download here. (see my earlier bookmarked interview with Mimi Ito.) It explores many examples of informal personal learning networks in which children participate.

EDUCAUSE link to legal alternatives for downloading. Sites states that the "Higher Education Opportunity Act requires all colleges and universities to offer legal alternatives to unauthorized downloading."

Teacher uses Facebook for uploading English papers for peer review.

This is actually a link to download a document also written by George Siemens. It is interesting as it is written as a specific response to arguments about the educational validity of connectivism.

This link downloads an article by Antonio Calvani from the University of Florence. He gives his take on whether connectivism is a legitimate learning theory or just a re-branding of the traditional three. He comes to the conclusion that digital access requires that we must re-think learning theories based on tools that were un-imaginable when those said theories were created.

Calvani, A. (2009). Connectivism: new paradigm or fascinating pot-pourri?. Journal of E-learning and Knowledge Society, 4(1). This article is a little hard to swallow at times. In what seems to be a love affair for his own writing he denounces, disagrees, and argues against the text Knowing Knowledge, By Siemens. I am all for disagreeing and arguing but not at the expense of the writer's own opinion where he cannot incorporate any research that supports his position. The author argues that many are too quick to adopt "isms" as a new learning theory and web 2.0 buzzword. He seems to jump from Connectivism as an unfinished theory and being incomplete, again though with no research backing up his own opinion and claim. Just when I thought he was done speaking about anything that I could connect with, Mr. Calvani did illicit a head nod. "A wild transfer of Connectivism to school would lead to think that putting students on the net is enough to produce knowledge, thus consolidating that widespread harmful cliché according to which the more technologies we use, anyway we do it, the better it is for learning".(Calvani,) As an alternative viewpoint to Connectivism he does draw some interesting end points, albeit at the sake of providing actual research for his own defense.

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This article examines arguments made for and against online learning and what is best for creating engaging and rigorous elearning environments. It argues the need for both asynchronous and synchronous opportunities to promote optimal communication and collaboration.

This article comes with a downloadable PDF that shows visuals of PLNs. It gives examples on what a PLN is and how to create your own. It also provides a list of experiences that will be available to someone who creates a PLN based on their needs.

This article discusses several concerns with connectivism. One issue is the ability of learners to self-regulate. This is a higher order skill that many adults have not mastered, and some teachers are expecting it of primary age students. The author also indicates a debate among connectivism adherents about the value of "lurkers". Some see it as s valuable activity that introduces learners to the community gradually. Others see lurkers as leeches who are taking without giving in return.

Text to speech with naturally sounding voices. Let your computer read most documents with naturally sounding voices and convert text to MP3, or text to WAV files, text to audio files, read text aloud, download free text to speech software now text readers, computer reader, Reader, online reader, talking text, voice text.

thousands of free PDFs for download in STEM content areas

Chapter 2 of: Educational Media:A handbook for Teachers-Developers. Edited by Usha V. Reddi and Sanjaya Mishra in March 2003. Found on the website for Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (cemca.org) http://cemca.org/EMHandbook/educational.htm The entire handbook is available through download.