Learning Design Tools and Resources

Learning board that functions like Pinterest but is dedicated to learning environments.

"Make FreeMobile Apps. Stunning app designs Quick and easy - no coding One click and it's ready!"

Case study of a School who used Google Hangouts for teacher observations. Summary of "pros" follows: "Maynard, the observing teacher in whose class Grubb worked, believes Google+ Hangouts offers a lot of potential for student teachers. "They could sit down with professors and supervising teachers and analyze lessons much easier," she says. "I like how multiple people can be invited as well. In the past there has been just one professor from the university sitting in the classroom observing." With Hangouts, multiple people could participate in the observation--including other student teachers. Plus, she added, the recordings could be useful for new teachers; they could simply take it to a job interview and share it. "That could be a huge part of interviews in the future.""

"When most of us think of Pinterest, we probably think of young people sharing links to web pages, photos and videos with their friends - just another social network for people to show off things they like, what's going on in their lives, favorite video's, and so on. But how often do we consider Pinterest as a tool to aid in teaching and learning? Here are a few ways in which Pinterest can play a role in the classroom."

"So you're managing digital projects but don't know your from your ? Do you ever need to just change something small but can't wait for the geeks to sort it out for you? We know that feeling! That's why we made this cheat sheet for ourselves and we thought we'd share it… Enjoy!"

ZebraZapps has partnered with the eLearning Brothers to produce high quality photographic character packs available in the Gadget Shopp. Conveniently integrated in the ZebraZapps cloud, these new character packs help authors instantly connect with their audience. Starting at just $3.50 you can choose from several multi-pose sets of unique characters. There's no need to search for and download art online, as the character packs live in the cloud with your account and can be used in every project.

Great article from Dale Borgeson, a teacher in CA. Lists his top tech tools for education. More K-12 focused, but some could be very useful for us. Good to at least be aware of what is out there.

Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best. You can create bookshelves and embed them on your site which provides a very pleasing format for users to access.

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

"Edmodo helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential."

"Want to listen to your website visitors, customers or readers? Set up a voicemail widget on your website or add the voicemail application to your Facebook page This allows your customers and visitors to leave voice messages right from a browser. No phone calls are required! "

Create a talking avatar

Yokto allows you to collect your videos in individual video players for every topic you need. They can be embedded in your website for you and the students to access.

A super communication tool for teachers. Register your class (their parents) to receive text messages you send out via your computer. No numbers are visible to users. A fantastic way to keep everyone up to date.

With Kid Blog you have a great tool for kids to practice their writing skills and talk to the group.

Screenr is a superb tool to create screencasts.You can use it to make tutorials to embed on a webstie. Parents and students can view them as often as needed.