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Instructional Design Central (IDC) provides instructional designers & learning experience (LX) design professionals access to content and resources.

eLearning Brothers now offer access to over 9,000 professional PowerPoint graphics. Graphics are 100% editable and can export in nearly any software. They offer free templates for a wide variety of e-learning tools. added by Shelly LaFevers TT1631

As a social media platform, Twitter is extremely easy to use and quick to adopt. Users distribute short snippets of information in a dynamic stream that is accessed on a desktop or mobile device. Twitter's format options allow for a variety of ways to communicate. Users demonstrate transliteracy skills when composing tweets using #hashtags, @messaging,...

Description of three open-access courses offered as part of the Stanford Engineering Everywhere Initiative.

I like this gallery view of open apps for edtech classes. Carol H

College course work is meant to be challenging. The content and the vocabulary used are often unfamiliar to many students. For at-risk learners, the challenges are even greater.

This report synthesizes effective practices in online education. The synthesis includes links to detailed postings about practices, including the authors and their institutions.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. It provides educators with access to images, videos, music, and graphic all with less restrictive rights for using the material. For example, you go right from Creative Comments to Flickr images that you can use. The one caveat while searching for content, be careful not to use a different search term, because you will be searching in the regular libraries. When want search for a different, go back to Creative Commons and search from there.

Can these tools really be accessible to the 'common student'??

Illinois has received a grant expected to increase the broadband capacity by 10 fold in 55 Illinois counties

This is a wonderful, cutting edge tool on the web for using the power of Mathematica to computer along with the endless databases of facts and figures that can be found on the internet at large. It can be a great resource for students, but it could also be something they use to cheat in certain situations so be aware. "Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music..."

Here is a useful scheduling tool, I would imagine its best use to be to organize meeting times between teachers and students. Everyone can access the same schedule without the need to synchronize or coordinate multiple calendars.

I thought it would be interesting (and maybe ironic) to post an article about diigo on diigo.

What is Diigo? Diigo stands for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your 'favourites' online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this.

I have been hearing a lot about Tableau and how it is being used in accounting. This is a link to the website where you can find out about this great software. Students are eligible for a one-year free access.

Relying on the expertise of distinguished curators and scholars, Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

5 Differences Between MOOCs, Online Degree Programs Expect greater access to your professor in an online degree program than in massive open online courses.

I used this to create a set of flashcards to share among peers. You can access from the web browser, mobile device, and computer or laptop. You can set goals to cover 20 flashcards per day and flag the confidence level.

Another way to increase accessibility when teaching online.