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This article describes the increased use in the eLearning industry to HTML5 as an authoring tool. Moving away from things like Adobe Flash has allowed new opportunities and avenues of creation possibilities to content developers. HTML5 has wide support across many different browsers and LMS platforms which makes the use of HTML5 an easy transition/addition. HTML5 does, however, have difficulty working with older browsers such as IE8. Using authoring tools such as Adobe Captivate 9 and Articulate Storyline makes HTML5 easy to use.

Ensuring Technology is used to Enhance Student Learning. Check out this page. http://www.scholastic.ca/education/teaching_tip/may2012.html

Moodle Chat allows HTML, so if you need to have a robust chat through their LMS, you can learn, copy, and paste some HTML.

Deciding whether to create your own content or access existing content will depend on a variety of factors. You will want to consider whether this course is to be accessed by a small or large number of students, over what timescale (will revisions be necessary?), will it be within one programme or across several, one institution or shared amongst many, and is the content culturally specific or to be made available globally.

If you use Google Talk (Google's instant messaging client) or just chat from inside your GMail account, you can set up a HTML "badge" that you can copy on to any webpage so that visitors can just click a link and start chatting with you. I've used a badge copied on to my Blackboard site to allow students to instant message me. The advantages are that the student doesn't need to sign up for a Google account to use this, and they don't even have to know your gmail account address to chat with you since you can make the badge say whatever you like.

Here is an alternative to Elluminate

I often use Jing to capture images or provide instructions on how to navigate through a LMS, Jing allows you to use arrows to direct student to the correct location on the screen.

Free technology for teachers: the five best tools for creating videos without installing software 4/15/13

This article provides very specific examples in how to use ipads to engage students from the perspective of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Great article on getting students interactive and motivated in class and in coursework.

What can we do to improve the status of American education???

A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

My screen capture tool of choice

PlayPosit is an "interactive video" tool that I'm excited to try out. Not quite there yet, but this is a neat blog article talking about how they use it.