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SOPHIA creates a vibrant learning community that empowers students to learn in their own way, helps teachers to innovate, and provides an opportunity to achieve an affordable college degree. We are surrounding the traditional classroom with a worldwide classroom that connects people who want to learn with people willing to teach. SOPHIA is a first-of-its-kind social education platform created to reach 21st century students: digital natives who grew up with Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube in a highly interactive and personalized digital world. We believe that a social learning experience, one that encourages exploratory and cooperative learning, is an opportunity to make higher education more affordable. At SOPHIA, we are putting students on a path to a lower cost college degree. Thanks to WYATT from Tuesday's ED554

This site was created by a grant from the REMC Association of Michigan for the creation of an educational resource for educational technology for students. Members of the REMC Instructional Technology Specialists in Michigan along with teachers from the state, have created this site to provide project-based activities which are aligned to the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S), and the Michigan Educational Technology Standards for students (METS) as well as the Framework for 21st Century Learning identified by the Partnership For 21st Century Skills.

"Create quality mobile apps once and deploy on all platforms Develop, publish, promote, and monetize your app No coding required!"

Thanks to @dugan_lisa for sharing this awsome site and post!

This course explores collaborative and emergent pedagogies, tools, and theory related to the use of social networks in learning environments. Participants gain hands-on experience with a variety social networking tools, create their own personal learning networks, and have an opportunity to develop a MOOC-inspired course for their learners.

This Guide will help you make an effective PowerPoint presentation quickly and easily. You'll learn: The one sentence that will make your presentation memorable Three questions to answer to create rapport with your audience The key factors in keeping your audience engaged The five PowerPoint slide formats that will enhance your presentation.

The CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Lesson Builder provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students.

"With WeVideo, you simply upload your video clips and photos, create your storylines, and edit them in the cloud. Oh, that "cloud thing", it means the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. For you that means there's no software to download. All video story creation takes place in the browser on your smartphone, tablet, or computer."

Reminder Guru is a free service that you can use to have reminders sent to you through email, text message, or phone call. Creating reminders in Reminder Guru is very quick and easy. After you have registered on the service, simply fill in the reminder form with a message for yourself, choose a reminder date, then specify how you want the reminder delivered to you. If there are tasks that you need to be reminded of daily, weekly, or monthly, you can set reminders to automatically repeat at the same time every day or week.

World clouds have become very popular. Thanks to the Wordle javascript (www.wordle.net) anyone can make a beautiful picture with words. There are however some drawbacks, such as the Wordle picture can not be saved (directly) and because of copyright modifications or alterations of the Wordle application is out of the question. Word clouds are playful and it is very attractive way to show text. Here we offer yet another application to the list of our creativity tools: Wordaizer. This new application offer the possibility to tune, shape, create, print and save any word cloud that you can think of.

Create Infographics Free via @friedtechnology http://t.co/GBDW80Yp #edtech #lhs212

Very cool web-app for support the teaching of dialogue. Simple interface that allows one to create a 3d movie. Also can select different languages and the app will translate it. Example, if student writes a conversation in Spanish the app will translate.

view and create notebookk files without software

Taking the boring "create a booklet, brochure" class project and taking it online and shareable.

"* Create private student accounts * Manage assignments and projects * Use the image editor, vector editor, audio editor & music creator * All content and images are 100% school safe "

Use this list and information to create a product for classroom application to share with class.

Use this list and information to create a product for classroom application to share with class.