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Linked resources of how to use universal design for development, procurement, and use of technology

Thanks for the great resource. I don't think we can ever have enough info on UDI, particularly how tech can support it.

Free APA resource guide.

Another great writing and citation resource.

This website is an overview and serves as a hub to identify data grounded in resources managed by this federal agency. It includes reports and data sets concerning geography, wildlife, and climate information.

STEM, Humanities and Social Science disciplines can integrate these sites, papers and data sets into their curricula.

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This search tool is wonderful! It allows the clinican to input patient data and search most likely diagnosis as well as providing red flags on questions and conditions which must be considered. It is a valuable tool to improve clinical decision making,

Talkes about the use of Twitter in educate.

This abstract written by an engineering professor at Cal Poly Engineering offers research and support for a new trend in education called, "the Inside-Out Classroom." The abstract describes how the inside out classroom is a win-win-win strategy for teaching with technology. Instructors create "chunks" of core content in a digital, lecture-capture format. These resources are then stored online for students. These are short videos that students watch before attending class sessions. Students study core content for a course online on their own, and then complete assignments during in-class sessions.

Community Classroom is an innovative and free resource for educators, offering short-form film modules adapted from ITVS's award-winning documentaries and standards-based lesson plans for high school and community colleges, NGOs, and youth organizations.

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#TT1251 Open Courseware

Hundreds of free tech tools for teachers? Wow!

This blog provides some suggestions for using YouTube in the classroom. It also describes other educational video resources.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Search peer reviewed open educational resources (OER), create Course ePortfolios, Bookmark Collections, and Learning Exercises, and build your own learning materials with our Content Builder.

This is a basic primer introducing the facilitator to online teaching. I found it helpful. Also, the supplemental resources at the end are fairly good.

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

This is a great article on Edutopia. It contains good practical ideas on how to use an online course's discussion forum.

Best practices, strategies and tips for successfully facilitating online discussion boards.

When it comes to trying something new or looking into more tools. I believe I would like to do more research to see what other online instructors are doing. In this case, I found a great website called, eLearning Industry: www.elearningindustry.com. Here I can find articles written by online teaching professionals and for online teaching professionals. Also, the website is easy to navigate and always updated.

Complete resources for learning to use Unreal Engine 4. For those instructors teaching game development, this is the best and most thorough source of tutorials and videos which support learning the software package.