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This module discusses the importance of developing materials to orient students to the LMS. Materials should also be developed to help students be successful as an online student.

"Michigan Virtual University developed this planning document as a practical resource to assist school board members, administrators, teachers, parents and others in meeting student needs. This document presents an overview of online and blended learning, offers guiding questions to support local planning efforts, identifies standards for teaching in online and blended environments and provides student and district planning rubrics." This guide was featured in an article on Page 14 in the Spring 2013 MACUL Journal. http://www.macul.org/downloads/journals/macul_journal_spring_2013_20130114_115352_2.pdf

Lessons learned about online professional development from the various participants.

This website is designed as a resource for individuals with varying levels of course design experience to assist them in developing and enhancing courses for higher education.

Excellent resource defines the models of Blended Learning. Mission statement: Innosight Institute is a not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank whose mission is to apply Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation to develop and promote solutions to the most vexing problems in the social sector.

While the content, layout, and navigability of your eLearning course are important; determining how a learner's brain actually acquires and retains information is an essential aspect of eLearning design and development . Without a firm grasp of how the brain works and the processes involved in learning new concepts, ideas, and skill sets, even the most experienced Instructional Designer will be unable to develop an effective eLearning course.

The eXe project developed a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages.

A list of 100 tools resources for developing your own online course. Their list includes Learning Management Systems, resources for getting your class online, resources for designing an online course, online course tools, how to teach an online course, student resources and, distance education blogs.

Portal for courses, resources and professional development for online learning in K-12. Currently under construction.

This portion of the Project Based Learning site provides information about developing and teaching online courses.

InSync Training offers a variety of consulting, development and delivery services to support synchronous online training initiatives. They have articles available as downloads.

Looks awesome...and free! Anyone familiar with this? "TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS."

Free Info Literacy assessment

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.

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!

Site where the presentations from the April 2012 Fraser Hybrid Learning Summit can be downloaded.

Selection of recorded Keynote sessions from MACUL conferences since 2010. This year's recordings usually start showing up several weeks after the conference. Come watch what you missed or re-live the excitement!

An online textbook about planning curriculum for the Web.

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

A web site for online teachers to connect with other online teachers as well as find information and resources to help become a better online teacher.