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Interesting rubric for students to use while grading/assessing other students' presentations. Simple rubric that would be good for introducing students to the concept of self-assessment and/or rubric-based assessment.

This conference lecture is available as an MP3 with a SlideShare (64 slides) presentation to accompany it. Suggests a variety of tools that can be used to build a Personal Learning Network. I want to know more...

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"

"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

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

One of the first cell phone polling student response sites. Can use with SMS, smart phone not needed. Free and paid accounts. "Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews."

A series of animated PowerPoint presentations showing "digital battle maps" for the American Revolution, Mexican-American War, American Civil War, Frontier Wars, Spanish-American War, WWII and more. Created by the Military History Instructional Support Team at the Combat Studies Institute used in their Military History Instructor's course

Presentation on Evaluating sources for research

We looked at this online,

Download Individual Chapters of this handbook. Chapters are listed below: Trends and Issues with Online Learning 1. From Reluctant and Reticent to Engaged and Enthusiastic: The Passage to Online Teaching by Susan Giullian 2. Preparing Special Education Teachers Through Online Instruction Donna Sobel 3. Using eCollege to Facilitate Learning, Provide for Program Coherence, Manage Accountability Innovations, and Ensure the Evolution of a Principal Licensure Program by Connie Fulmer 4. Make, Share, Find: Web 2.0 and Informal Learning by Phil Antonelli Technology in Action 5. The Advantages of a Ning Social Network Within a Higher Education Program by Laura Summers 6. Fresh and Forward-thinking: Using Blogs for Educational Purposes by Joanna C. Dunlap & Ellen Stevens 7. Hanging on by a Thread by Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade 8. Instructional Uses of Twitter by Joanna C. Dunlap & Patrick R. Lowenthal 9. Using Audio for Giving Feedback to Project Teams: A Useful Complement to Track Changes by Brent G. Wilson 10. Wordle… Just for Phluff? by Joanna C. Dunlap 11. A Teaching Video Project Brought to Closure by Farah A. Ibrahim 12. Improving the Design of PowerPoint Presentations by Patrick R. Lowenthal

The Daring Librarian presents a number of comic tutorials - poster size introductions to QR codes, Twitter and much more. 34 in this set. Cool!

Karl Kapp's slides and resources from a Sept. 2014 online Learning conference

Interesting presentation of WWII on Facebook - who would have thought?

The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been a privilege connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea.