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Michigan Learns Online home page

Conference that took place July 20-23, 2010

Streamed sessions require Microsoft Silverlight (download available at the site)

"free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites." Templates include game generators, flashcards, countdown timer, animated book, timeline and more. Screencast tutorials show how to use templates. Site is from the UK.

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.

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.

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

Some of the keynote speeches are archived here to enjoy anywhere / anythime

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

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...

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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.

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

"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."

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

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.

"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

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

Online resources for kids from ages 5-12