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Help resources on getting started with Twitter. This would be a great place to send new users either during a session on using Twitter, or at the end so they can start to support themselves.

Resources to Support Online Learning for K-12 Students

"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

Use with smartphone or any connected device - free. Supports many quiz types and polls. Has anyone used it? How does it compare to Poll Anywhere? Can email responses to excel.

I have the teacher app and the student app on my devices but I have not yet tried it out. Maybe for a Let's Talk meeting. It would be interesting to see if different types of devices can all connect to the teacher's device or if they all have to be the same brand.

Kathy Schrock provides infographic images containing lots of apps - updated May 2012 - "Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy."

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

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

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.

"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."