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If you're looking to get started in the cryptocurrency world, one of the first things you'll need to do is create a Binance account. Binance is one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, so it's a good idea to have an account there. Creating a Binance account is relatively simple and only requires a few pieces of information from you. However, before you can start trading on Binance, you'll need to verify your account. This process can take a little bit of time, but it's worth it to make sure your account is secure. Once your account is verified, you'll be able to deposit money into it and start trading cryptocurrencies. If you're new to the world of crypto, Binance is a great place to start. With its large selection of coins and easy-to-use interface, it's perfect for beginner investors.

Other useful vocab links: http://www.studyblue.com/ http://www.flashcardmachine.com/ http://www.factmonster.com/

Here is a great webpage that discusses modern trends including gamification, flipped classrooms, and new tools. He is a great educator and a nice website to browse.

Introduces Spiral, a website where you can create a class for your students and get them engaged in a wide variety of collaborative learning activities. It offers a number of tools to help you conduct quick formative assessments, design interactive presentations, annotate public videos, create video quizzes and video lesson plans, etc.

Hosted by Redbird, a dialogue between a teacher, an ed tech specialist, and a superintendent on what works in personalized learning.

"In this brief, we do not prescribe specific innovations that schools should adopt under ESSA (although we mention a few). Instead, we offer a series of frameworks for thinking about how systems can successfully manage innovation under the new law."

This is paper written back in 2007 about PLNs. The author argues that PLN are the future of elearning because of the power they have to offer individualized learning and give the learner the opportunity to organize his/her own learning. That educational institutions cannot expect to simply recreate the same forms of learning used in tradition education online. rather that we must learn to adapt to the new and emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing and social software. Considering that this article was written 9 years ago, I found it to be extremely accurate and representative of PLNs today.

Some ideas for using personal learning networks for personalized learning.

Helpful tips for students on how to take notes in a google doc.

This is a great post about teaching digital citizenship. This post has a great way of illustrating the importance to our students.

Camtasia gives you the tools you need to record on-screen activity, edit and enhance your content, and share in high-quality to viewers anywhere.

I purchased Camtasia a few years ago and find to be invaluable. It is quite intuitive as long as you aren't afraid to play a bit and figure out the transitions, etc. I recommend practicing some of the zooming and highlighting techniques on a test video so you aren't trying to learn it all right when you need to create a video for class.

This blog covers a great range of topics with a focus on innovative uses of technology in education.

"Ask the right questions, manipulate data sets, and create visualizations to communicate results. This Specialization covers the concepts and tools you'll need throughout the entire data science pipeline, from asking the right kinds of questions to making inferences and publishing results. In the final Capstone Project, you'll apply the skills learned by building a data product using real-world data. At completion, students will have a portfolio demonstrating their mastery of the material."

This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses. A complete description of each activity is given, along with examples when possible.

Licensure of online teachers would be a good discussion topic. (As a BSU student, you have access to any papers from the editlib database - I can also provide a digital copy of needed)

"A learning community does not just happen; it is created intentionally at every level of a school and organization."

A White paper to identify key state policy issues, with recommendations for the development of a multistate network. July 2014 Digital Learning Now

A great example of online learning that I found thanks to a classmate.

This is a free website that you use to help organize your resources for whatever you might need it for such as online content for courses, lessons, professional development, hobbies, interests, and so on. "You can view links like pages in a book instead of a URL. Combine uploaded PDFs and Word docs with links in one binder. Go paperless one LiveBinder at a time." ( http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/learn_more )

I found this gem when searching for resources to use in a lesson about facilitating online discussion forums. It is a great resource for developing open ended discussion questions.