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This one doesn't have anything to do with class, but if you are introducing your class to technology it is a great place to start. My granddaughter's junior high tech class uses it. I was introduced to it when one of our faculty used it to make me a graduation gift. He put my thesis into the web site, printed it out and framed it. I loved the gift.

#TT1151 This is a great guide to technology tools available for education.

download problems of the month For a high school math teacher, or anyone that likes to solve math problems, this was a fun place to find. I might give some of my honors level juniors a few of these as class openers or closers.

Sustained, high-quality student participation usually doesn't happen on its own in the online learning environment. The instructor needs to model participation, create assignments that encourage it, and foster an environment that supports it. Here are some ways that I promote student participation in my online courses.

The Internet consists of tens of millions of computers throughout the world, all connected by cables. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is a company that has a very high-speed (and very expensive) connection to the Internet.

This course site and presentation will illustrate how the "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (Chickering and Gamson, 1991) can be supported using the features of Blackboard Learn. Several online course design rubrics will also guide our showcase of quality instructional design options related to course structure, navigation, activities, assignments (individual and group), and communication. "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (Chickering and Gamson, 1991), states a quality teaching and learning environment is one that: (1) Encourages contact between students and faculty, (2) Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, (3) Encourages active learning, (4) Gives prompt feedback, (5) Emphasizes time on task, (6) Communicates high expectations, and (7) Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

This link has some awesome FREE websites for using technology in kindergarten through high school classrooms! Great resource.

A basic start to bringing twitter to a high school english class.

How timely! The NY Times is seeking input from educators on how smartphones have added or detracted from their classrooms in an occasional special report series called "Learning". While it's for high schools, I'm certain that community college faculty could share input.

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the May 2017 issue of Teaching for High Potential. Research from Mathematica and CREDO have shown disappointing results for online schools, though the studies do not address how well or poorly they serve gifted students.

Free, high-quality videos for various medical, nursing, and biology courses.

Khan academy has free videos on Youtube on a variety of anatomy and physiology subjects and pathophysiology. It's a great way to review the basics with the nursing students with high quality videos/lectures from Khan academy. It's free and I get a lot of positive feedback from the students.

Loretta-Thanks for the reminder about using Khan Academy videos in nursing courses and that they are free. I have to admit I forgot about this site. I too often use videos from You Tube (Nurse Sarah) to help students reinforce their learning. Thanks-Pat

5 easy activities if you teach a course that address the topic of Globalization. The activities are geared toward high school level but can be expanded for higher levels.

This is a great resource for teaching physics at both the high school and college levels. There are also a lot of useful chemistry related topics.

Interesting article on the use of different simulation modalities to train CRNAs! Kate Lindley

This tool is mainly for instructors in the biological sciences. The site allows you to select high quality educational videos on a topic and easily build interactive questions on top of the videos.

This is a useful screen capture tool for making high quality lecture videos. The editing function is very user-friendly and accurate speech-to-text captions can be added.