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Create a public collaborative document instantly and invite others to join you. Great tool if you're working with groups of people that don't have Google accounts, want to do collaborative note-taking, or are working together during a professional development session.

"Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge." Requires registration.

"Cacoo supports real time collaboration. Multiple users can simultaneously edit and complete a single diagram."

iNACOL, is a non-profit organization that facilitates collaboration, advocacy, and research to enhance quality K-12 online teaching and learning. Identify and drive future directions in K-12 online education. See their "About" for details. Lots of great free resources, membership required for archived webinars.

Home site for the road trip bringing 6 Google Certified teachers from California to our conference in Detroit! Learn about our preconference presenter, Sean Williams and his fellow EdTech Rockstars! "A 5000+ Mile Road Trip to connect two great EdTech Organizations! 6 Google Certified Teachers and two Apple Distinguished Educators in an RV across the country from California to Detroit, Michigan"

Andy Losik encourages shaking the winter blahs by planning to go to conferences - specifically MACUL! True, he's a MACUL officer but this is posted on big time edreach site! Not familiar with edreach? Well, get over there and explore and learn!

from Elluminate, moderated by Steve Hargadon. A social learning network for educatios offers resources, online meeting area with archive. An eSchoolNews site of the Week: Elluminate creates free social learning network for educators. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/site-of-the-week/site/?i=60325

The #onlinelearning Daily

Our mission is advance digital learning in every classroom, in every school, in every state in America to better prepare students for college and careers. Technology has changed the way we live, work and play. But it has yet to transform the way we learn.

Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them. This post is a post of the series "Free e-Learning Resources" and I am going to talk about free and open source text-to-speech tools for e-Learning.

The software on this page either captures digital still shots of what is on the screen or captures what you are doing on your screen as a movie (great for making instructions for people). Some do both!

list with 1000 Twitter users who will follow you back and are involved in the e-Learning industry!

TerraClues For Schools has been specifically designed for teachers to use in the classroom as a teaching aid. Key features include: Very easy to use. Students can begin playing right away Access hunts geared towards your curriculum requirements Create private classrooms and choose what hunts your students can play Create your own hunts Share the hunts you create with other teachers Talk to other teachers in the forums.

Supercool School is an online school platform that empowers everyone to create customized education environments for live online learning.

"Online Learning Today... and Tomorrow" eduMOOC (massive open online course). Click on the title of this posting or here to visit the home site of the MOOC http://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/.

Cant' wait for the Michigan conference? The Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) is just ending. Visit this site to browse through the sessions, get insights, learn about trends and trend setters and pick up a few new buzzwords. Search for #FETC for participant's posts of what they found to be the most useful, amazing and exciting. It's like having an instant PLN! "FETC 2015 offers more than 250 sessions in dozens of the latest focus areas and in a variety of meeting structures as part of the full conference registration. Sessions range from 20 minutes to one hour and are designed to maximize participant networking and collaborative learning to build their individualized effective professional learning network."

The Conference site is open for registration! See you in March 18 - 20, 2015!

Be sure and sign up for the SIGOL Pre-Con sessions!