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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

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.

Imagine all of your online courses being taken by an expert for you. Having your essays, research papers and book reports written without you every having to actually lift a finger or expend any intellectual effort.

A rubric is a scoring tool that explicitly represents the performance expectations for an assignment or piece of work. A rubric divides the assigned work into component parts and provides clear descriptions of the characteristics of the work associated with each component, at varying levels of mastery.

Glogster can be a great presentation tool. It allows students to make interactive posters. When assigning a poster, this YouTube video is helpful for teaching students to get the most out of the program.

I love articles that describe the history of school supplies!

Discusses how technology in the Early Childhood classroom can be beneficial.

Hi I found a website to administer quizzes online (just one of the many tools it has)

This is a video I have for my students. Since I had to post something, and I have students use this, I thought I would use it here.

Very informative. Thank you for sharing! Any way to reduce the background noise in the video? Also love the introduction too!

Great tool to teach complicated procedures.

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

How to integrate technology into the classroom: PowerPoint, Blackboard, Video, iclickers, online discussions, ePortfolios, blended learning, survey tools, etc.

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.

A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. It provides a ready to use site with a simple user interface, ability to easily add pages, and simple navigation structure. This allows students to spend more time devel- oping the content of the site, instead of trying to learn how to make one.

Create custom posters, flyers and social media graphics. Huge selection of templates, easy to use tools. Free downloads and quality prints. I like this site because I often like to be creative in my classroom and I like to create poster are graphical images to impress my students.

This video explains how to use Screencast-o-matic, a free tool that allows you to record your voice and screen for up to 15 minutes.

Great tool for sharing presentation slides and documents with students or participants.

Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful. It's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand. Writing about the success of a Stanford online computer science course in the Wall Street Journal, Holly Finn implies that free Web-based education is about to or should replace elite universities: It's a thrilling collegiate coup.

This was really interesting...there are so many free online courses. The issue seems to be quality and accreditation.

Nineteen suggestions for online student-created content in ESL classes, and the best tools to use for each.

I am using VoiceThread for students to create digital stories to share about their research projects. Other students will peer review, comment, and write a reflection. Use VoiceThread Search Box terms "online teaching" to find Projects created for Online Courses.

Very unique tool to remind online participants of upcoming events. Carol H