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Students taking a course through the City Colleges of Chicago's Center for Distance Learning are expected to complete this quiz as part of the course's Week 1 orientation activities.

Just a thought about how to use Skype in the classroom.

A nonprofit blog with many resources.

This first of two videos shows what college faculty handouts for research projects do and don't include to assist students with their research.

For those rare moments when you need to go back in time and relive the memories of Netscape 4.5

CIDER is research initiative supported by Athabasca University - Canada's Open University. (Terry Anderson, the author of one of our Module 1 readings, is at Athabasca U.) The Special Interest Groups area of the website includes SIGs on E-Portfolios, Virtual Communities, etc. It's in its infancy, so now's the time to get involved!

Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about ways her office can help connect higher education professionals with one another to share best practices for using technology, something that is not happening now.

Classroom assessment is both a teaching approach and a set of techniques. The approach is that the more you know about what and how students are learning, the better you can plan learning activities to structure your teaching. The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.

One of my 23 steps was to help students understand if online learning or F2F learning was better for them. This article helps a student answer that question.

While you have to search through the content, you get insights into what works for students and what doesn't (e.g. "their website is often down for "improvements"")

Blog about teaching ESL

Great ideas for branding case studies to start IMC class

While this isn't directly related to Tech tools, it is an article that nearly every educator will enjoy reading.

I enjoyed this video. It was very helpful in learning to organize my electronic life.

Link to test for Diigo account

Twitter is a useful tool for seeing what's happening at this very moment, but many of its cooler settings and tweaks are hidden or under-utilized. Here are our favorite things you didn't know you could do on Twitter. #TT1131

Video regarding one method to discourage cheating in online courses

Probably a site most have heard of before, but well worth the look if you haven't. Basically, it's one man who sits at his computer with a slate and narrates videos explaining an idea/technique as demonstrated on a simple whiteboard. He's recorded a large compilation of these videos from a variety of fields in math and science. "The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 2100+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month."