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Announcement about Pearson's plans to develop and support an open source tool for evaluating school technology and infrastructure readiness for the online assessments for Common Core

ETAN - Ed Tech Action Network. Advocate for educational technology by regulary visiting this site and sending a quick note to legislators.

Recorded Keynotes from the 2012 MACUL Conference

The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators advance the  conversation toward building a rich digital learning experience. This Playbook offers information about  determining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms, leveraging home and community  broadband to extend the digital learning environment, and understanding necessary device  considerations. It also provides lessons learned from school districts that engaged in successful  transitions to digital learning. This Playbook is the output of the Digital Textbook  Collaborative, a joint effort of industry stakeholders, school  officials and nonprofit leaders to encourage collaboration across the ecosystem, accelerate the development of digital textbooks and improve the quality and penetration of digital learning  in K-12 public education. The collaborative was convened  by the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S.  Department of Education and builds upon the FCC's National Broadband Plan and the Department of  Education's National Education Technology Plan.

The official website for Digital Learning Day. The 2012 nationwide event took place on 2-1-2012. The website hosts many useful resources and will also be the launching pad for future Digital Learning Days.

Richard Byrne writes about how to search the web within a Google Doc

54321 Michigan started as a presentation at the MACUL 2011 conference in Detroit, Michigan. I joked that it was my Jerry Maguire, blue-folder vision statement. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was in the process of releasing his  Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace  vision for education.

Ben Rimes is a leader in video and recommends the $60 a year Vimeo Plus for sharing.

A glog (Glogster poster) with links to the presenters resources for the MACUL 2012 sessions I attended.

This is a product comparison prepared by UC Berkeley that evaluates these products for use on their campus.