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"Best Practices in Online Learning Posted June 26, 2012 in Online Learning From David Evans A recent Time magazine article, "The Teacher You've Never Met: Inside an Online High School Class," profiled Jane Good, one of Colorado's 21st Century Virtual Academy K-12 teachers. As a teacher who only sees her students' hands raised through buttons clicked on a screen and will never be able to tell if a student has dozed off on his or her desk, Good realizes that there are effective and ineffective practices for teaching in an online classroom."

"Thank you for your interest in the Digital Storytelling Kit! The resources in this kit will help you implement the exciting process of digital storytelling with your students."

"The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for students to use. This dictionary will ultimately be published in a variety of formats and for multiple platforms. To add to this project, find a word you'd like to write a definition for or click "Instant Karma" for a random word. Please consult the style guidelines for editorial information. "

"I usually just do a year-end list on Web 2.0 Applications For Education and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me - and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers - I'm going to be publishing mid-year lists, too. These won't be ranked, unlike my year-end "The Best…" lists, and just because a site appears on a mid-year list doesn't guarantee it will be included in an end-of-the-year one. But, at least, I won't have to review all my year's posts in December…"

"ollect ideas, discuss and vote. That's how tricider works. Your team will make decisions faster without meetings or calls. Innovative solutions arise because everyone can contribute ideas and vote. Whether with friends or clients: taking advantage of all the opinions and ideas to find the best solution has never been easier."

"Welcome to my iPads4teaching site! These pages will provide you with tips, tricks and resources for teaching and learning with the iPad. "

"This site will be both a support site for my presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and also include links to other iPad information pages. If  you are tweeting a URL of a site dedicated to the use of the iPad in support of teaching and learning, use the hashtag #edtablet And here are some tools to help you begin the process of gathering apps -- an evaluation form for a content iPad/iPod application and one for a creation iPad/iPod application. Google versions you can use: forms for content and creation apps, resulting content spreadsheet and resulting creation spreadsheet. I also have started a page to allow you to submit your favorite apps to share with others -- App for That For information about collaboration, assessment, and workflow with the iPad, see my iPads4Teaching page!"

"Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear. Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic - try editing this sentence to remove the red."

"The tools and materials in the MCOE LCAP Development Guide suggest a possible approach for LCAP planning and drafting. They are purposefully designed to encourage reflective, focused dialogue and facilitate productive conversations. It is assumed that those who use these materials will modify them to fit a particular audience or situation."

"We are not spyware Our team believes in positive family communication based on trust and responsibility. Before using our product, we urge you to sit down with your child to have a discussion about what exactly will be monitored. Read more » See us in the news Watch as Dr. Phil, law enforcement officers, and parents from around the country all recommend My Mobile Watchdog. View more » Keeping School Kids Safe My Mobile Watchdog is proud to partner with TDS, California's largest and oldest public school 403b Plan Administrator, to prevent cyber bullying."

Zygote offers manipulable, three-dimensional, anatomical models of the male and female human bodies. This site is gorgeous. It's a singular page with either a female or male model, but those models are so beautifully rendered that users don't realize that they're only looking at a single page. Organs and entire systems jump off the screen when revealed. The attention to detail is impressive once users get passed the initial, clothed version of the models. (Because they will encounter only under-the-skin views of body parts, kids in grades six and up should be able zygote bodyto avoid inappropriate distractions while exploring this site.)

These basic flashcards will give your students the repetition they need to master the very important skill of counting money.

"The Digital Library is a critical component of the Smarter Balanced system of assessments and will include a variety of resources to improve teaching and learning."

This site, "dedicated to the idea that information will be the raw material that drives the 21st century, and that today's students should be learning to build with information," offers free Web tools for integrating the Internet into the curriculum in a meaningful way. The tools include a rubric maker, citation machine, permission template, and digital index card, as well as Web site and WebQuest creators.

The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform--be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism--is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology. Any educator will tell you the most successful implementation of technology programs takes place in schools where the principal sees him or herself as a technology leader. 

"A consortium of 22 colleges and universities will share a $3.2-million grant over the next two years to improve their instruction in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects."

"With so many courses being created on a daily basis, it's not surprising that some content will be better than others. Obviously, you want your course to stand out from the crowd. Here's how to avoid some common eLearning content mistakes:"

The Tech4Learning team is constantly amazed, inspired, and awed by the work students and teachers are doing with our tools, and we hope you will use this space to connect with colleagues and celebrate the work you are doing! Learn more about Tech4Learning.

"Project Tomorrow is a national education nonprofit group based in Irvine, California. The vision of Project Tomorrow is ensure that today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world. We believe that by supporting the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities, students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century. "

For media folks like me, the cool, interactive graphical program that is Google Earth has always had a Holy Grail-inserting moving media so it plays right over the terrain, as still images will do. We've gotten a lot closer with two new features, one with mixed blessings. First, Google Earth now has a YouTube layer.