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create a private social network for the classroom - free - read the "About"

"The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens" endorced by ISTE and other reputable folks. Backed by MicroSoft

Michigan Learns Online home page

moodle site for Michigan Learns Online

Links to websites that feature virtual learning experiences that expose online visitors to the history, geography, literature, government and for different places around the world.

Play free online brain games and puzzels. Free puzzle games and brain games that make you smarter

Royality free music, sound effects and lots more

Resources and links to ways to use graphic organizers in K-12 education.

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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...

Online resources for kids from ages 5-12

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.

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

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

This website contains a number of learning objects that are useful in designing online instruction for students. Click on the links in the link bar on the left to visit any of these subjects.

Links to free textbooks California has reviewed.

Illustrates hundreds of physics concepts.

The websites listed here cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.

Twitter like microblogging tool for education "Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component which allows teachers to post any privately shared item to a public timeline and RSS feed" [description from website]