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" Play Video Login at Mobile.DiscoveryEducation.com with your iPad Today using your Discovery Education username and password. Questions? email educationsales@discovery.com Download an Informational Flyer about Discovery Education and the iPad See Educator Reaction to Discovery Education on the iPad Watch live streaming video from discoveryedu at livestream.com Discovery Education's ground-breaking iPad web app is focused on student exploration of safe and appropriate educational content. "

"Search for free online courses from prestigious higher education institutions around the globe. Our search index currently contains 6,384 courses from 64 sources and 12 languages, and growing! While this search tool is in BETA status, we would love to hear your feedback on how it works for you. Please let us know by emailing feedback@ocwconsortium.org."

" The Future of Online Learning By Jeff Borden / August 2011 Print Email Comments Instapaper Higher education is undergoing an explosive period of transformation that embraces the digital age. From tablets to smart phones to wikis and blogs, today's digital environment makes communication, collaboration and information sharing easier than ever before. "

In this EMERGING list of Top 100 Tools, you can also compare the rankings of the tools with the last two years. If you are a learning professional and would like to share your Top 10 tools to help refine the list, email me, tweet @c4lpt or blog your top 10 tools (More info here).  We will close for contributions on 15 November 2009.

"Back to School Night | Six Tips for Wowing Class Parents Back-to-School Night is often the first time you get to meet your class parents and that night sets the tone for the year ahead. Although it's a QUICK evening, it's a great opportunity to build rapport and invite parents to become a team with you and their children in cultivating a positive and successful learning environment. Make your time together count with these six quick tips: "

"Engaging Parents to Fund Education Technology Parents as Key Influencers in Purchase Decisions"

"Reaching a Communication Balance Best practices for Parent-Teacher Communication"

Sign up today to receive a FREE Financial Literacy Kit including posters, teacher's guides, reproducible activities, and parent guides. * The Learn and Earn Program with the Secret Millionaires Club and Warren Buffett inspires and enables your students to learn good financial behavior in a fun and engaging way. * The program includes nationally aligned educational extensions of Warren Buffett's animated series teaching financial and entrepreneurial lessons. * In the animated web series on AOL Kids and in an all new prime time special on The Hub Network, the SMC Kids get financial and business advice from one of the most successful investors of all time, Warren Buffett. * Program materials are aligned to HMH's Go Math curriculum. Sign up today for a free sample activity.

"Leading a claymation workshop? Download the Claymation Workshop Kit! While we can't make a claymation workshop any more fun that it already is, we wanted to make preparing for it even easier! The Claymation Workshop Kit is designed to give you new ideas and resources that will make preparations and follow-up a snap."

"Lore is the network for teachers and learners."

Online Curriculum to be used for 6-12

Professional development and content online

"f you've got school-age kids, you know when they're working on reading and math. But if their homework includes loops, goto commands, and branches, don't be alarmed. They're probably learning to code, and that's a very good thing. From Code.org's Hour of Code to coding camps and afterschool classes, computer programming is hot -- and, in a technology-fueled world that's only going to grow, coding is an invaluable 21st-century skill."

"A Different Kind of 'Flipped' Learning: Students Teaching Students Posted by Ian Jukes on July 9, 2013 "Flipped learning, as you'll find out in the following article from the staff at eClassroom News, isn't just about digital technology. Here we look toward human technology, in which students become teachers in their own right in the quest to better themselves and their peers with relevant learning experiences that put them at the controls.""

LTI™ is a standard way of integrating rich learning applications which are often remotely hosted and provided through third-party services with platforms like learning management systems, portals, or other educational environments

OER and Engaging Online Learners

OER and Engaging Online Learners

Simple voice recording for students. Great for recording their voices.