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The role of Learning Management Systems has changed dramatically over the last ten years. The first higher education learning management systems were places for professors to place materials and students to submit assignments. These were different from Content Management Systems, which allowed learners to follow a learning path through a course, grading systems, which kept track of grades, enrollment systems, which allowed students to enroll in classes, student accounting systems, which tracked payments and expenses, data warehouses, which allow analysts to mine the various systems for actionable trends, and all the other myriad systems that schools use to run their academics and operations.

Today, in both K12 and postsecondary, there is a growing need to integrate these systems. In higher education, schools have tried to patch together brittle middleware applications to bridge the various systems. This has not been an issue yet for K12, because of low penetration of the LMS into public schools. But federal calls for increased use of data, and the need to handle more students and show better results, with decreased resources will likely hasten the introduction of the LMS in elementary and secondary schools.

as the third or fourth place word processor. Excel was the second most popular spreadsheet. Forefront was selling the second most popular presentation program, called PowerPoint. Microsoft bought Forefront, and then integrated the three applications into one bundle, MS Office, which has controlled the desktop word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation market for over 15 years.

As a teacher, you can create a free teacher account through which you can create student accounts. Diigo's student accounts require no email address, can be kept private, and can also be grouped so that students can share resources they find with each other. 

While observing my students using Diigo, I noticed that they were actually reading the site and highlighting the information they wanted to keep.  This was different from previous years where they just copied blindly.  In addition, they could easily return to where they left off the previous class. 

What 10 digitals tools should educators know about?

Here are some ways that I'm using RSS at my school and in my professional life to make things easier and to tie things together. 

Using this same idea, students have to write a reflection about their GCW Trips (Global Citizen's Week) that we went on last week. The trip leaders don't have all the student blog addresses and we want the students to own the reflection, we want it to become part of their learning/eporfolio here at ISB.

Animation projects are a great way to integrate technology, encourage project-based learning and have a lot of fun. This month let's take a quick tour of seven Web 2.0 animation sites for students young and old. 

Moving up a level of complexity is DigitalFilms.com. Like Fluxtime, numerous backgrounds and objects are provided. A character creator is also included so students can make characters that look just like them. You can add actions and text to the characters and then share them online.

That is, agency-side audience networks are leveraging the targeting data in which pu

lishers have invested to target and segment audiences across the web.

Question 1: Who owns data?

While listening to the teachers' presentation at my twins' school, I had a moment of clarity: The kindergarten classroom is the design studio.

The kindergarten classroom is the design studio. All of the learning activities that take place inside the kindergarten classroom are freakishly similar to the everyday environment of my design studio in the "real world."

Like the design studio, the kindergarten environment places human interaction above all else.

For students tired of fiddling with crayons and watercolors or who want to move beyond playing tunes on the recorder, the Web provides a wealth of tools that allow students to express themselves in non-linguistic ways.

If you've ever thought it would be fun to write for @U2, or help in our forum, or do something else as part of the team, or if you've been thinking that it would be fun to help with concert dates, set lists, and everything else that happens on U2tours.com ... have we got a job for you!

At the end of February, McGraw-Hill’s Macmillan unit unveiled a new electronic book imprint, DynamicBooks, that will let professors create their own textbooks, using their own material as well as materials developed by Macmillan. "Basically, they will go online, log on to the authoring tool, have the content right there and make whatever changes they want," Brian Napack, president of Macmillan, told The New York Times. "And we don’t even look at it."

Students will pay about one-third as much as the the paper-bound version's list price.

educators have been encouraged to change roles again and again as we become more familiar with the capabilities of the technology and its uses in instruction.

instructors have been presented with the challenge of moving from center stage to more of a support role--a facilitator

we no longer need to be the sole source of all information nor the one who presents every aspect of the course or who controls how information is presented and re-presented for evaluation