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Looking to get away from the old PowerPoint and Keynote standby's? Here are some free alternatives!

12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education "Few artifacts of formal learning are as iconic as the letter grade."

A cool web-based alternative to using graphing calculators. Worth considering.

In the Academe, technology has to be studied as one of the essential modes of being human. We have to guide our students to be digitally wise and to attain digital wisdom. There is a real multiplication of the dimensions of the human being, when Singularity is more and more near. We deal with a whole set of different identities [plural (?), multiple (?), alternative (?), concurrent (?), divergent (?), virtualising (?)

An alternative to MovieMaker and iMovie. Might be easier for students who don't have access to either programs at home. After playing with this for a bit, I find it to be more useful than Animoto because users can do more. Instead o just plugging things in, you actually get to play around a bit more.

A very practical explanation of finding images that one is free to use via Creative Commons licenses via the image sharing site Flickr. Also included are concrete summaries of each specific license type. The author mistakenly refers to CC-licensed images as "non-copyrighted," but this is not accurate technically. A copyright owner may choose to license her work for reuse/remixing, but in doing so, she does not give up her copyright. Creative Commons exists with copyright not as an alternative to it.

The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education contains 133 articles and has a "call for contributors" link. Offerings interesting alternatives from past to present to the formal educational processes."

Links to help students effectively use technology to conduct research and write papers. Includes information on copyright, fair use, creative commons licenses, alternate search terms, and mind mapping

A superb example of "remixing" for popular culture content. While not, obviously, licensed for remixing (via Creative Commons or alternative), this parody (consistent with fair use of copyrighted materials) still showcases tactics involved in remixing (e.g., excerpting, re-sequencing, adding content elements) in a way that creates a new work from the old.

List of Open Source Education & Science Software. osalt.com helps recommend a open source software alternative or replacement for proprietary, closed source or commercial products and even shareware.

Awesome website! This site extremely vast in educational topics and links for assistance. The teacher tool kit link is priceless. You are able to generate worksheets, create word bingo activities (great for vocabulary retention) and there are lesson plans (i.e. sentence starters). My favorite link is the alternative assessment; here, you can find ideas and rubrics for alternative assessments in your classroom.

I saw this site on an Edmodo thread for classroom animation... It could be an alternative to Prezi for digital story telling...

Three educators share their favorite social media sites to use within their classrooms. Diigo, Instagram, VoiceThread, Scoopit.com, Pinterest, and Feedly help these educators stay up-to-date while keeping their students engaged.

HOME KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results! This site has a variety of resources for teaching social studies through alternative methods.

Verbose article weighing the effectiveness of pedagogy first, technology second or technology first and educational process second

We need this type of program for young men all over the world. We tend to forget about helping the troubled kids.

That sounds like a great program! Two good ones in Florida include Faith Farm and Dunklin Memorial. One of these days I would like to run something similar...farm and faith based, alternative ed, counseling on site. Thanks for sharing!

This is a great video on the basics of Flipped Classrooms. Assigning lecture time for homework, leaving class time for more one-on-one attention.

 Some articles about Future of Education Technology. (10 Emerging Education and Instruction Technologies that all Educators Should Know about. )