Learning Design Tools and Resources

Teachers assign online practice to their students aligned to the Common Core. It's very motivating for students and parents can follow their child's performance.

Ten Marks, an online mathematics tutoring service, offers a free program for teachers. Ten Marks for educators is designed to be a supplement to classroom instruction, not a replacement for it. If a student gets stuck on a problem he or she can open a tutorial to help him or her through the problem.

They have outstanding teacher created videos aligned with the common core for math and language arts.

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.

University Branding has set-up the following site for stock Regis photo. You can obtain a download of a specific photograph by emailing the URL to Brett Stakelin.

"This tutorial is intended for CPS instructional designers, content authors, and anyone else who needs information on how to construct instructional rubrics. The tutorial is divided into three parts, to answer three basic questions: What exactly is a rubric? Why do we in CPS use rubrics to grade assignments? How do content authors and instructional designers build a rubric for a specific assignment? At the end of this tutorial is advice on how to grade with rubrics, both holistic and analytic types. If you are here only for that information, you may want to jump straight to "The Last Piece: Grading with a Rubric.""

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

"Welcome to the Learning Technologies blog from the staff of RHCHP Learning Technologies at Regis University, Denver Colorado. This blog deals with learning technologies but may include other topics loosely associated with technologies for home, school, and the workplace. We hope you log in frequently. Enjoy. "

"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.

Mind Mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.