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One stop shop for any online resource you may need. Richard Byrne has tried and reviewed just about any online resource available online for education that you can think of.

Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. In 2010, we covered our favorite 100 video sites for educators, and we've now updated our list for 2012 with more than 100 resources and more than 25 brand new entries.

Are you using a blended learning program in your classroom? Lexia Reading Core5 is a research-based program for students in PreK through fifth grade that is friendly for schools with lots of different types of technology. It provides norm-referenced data for teachers to help make instructional decisions for individual students.

add-ons for teacher websites. Embed tools for homework uploads, classroom calendar, announcements and hosted documents.

"Designing for Deeper Learning: How to Develop Performance Tasks"

Visit this site to learn all the tips and tricks for using Google Earth as a teaching tool. You can view lesson plans for a variety of grade levels and subjects, discuss Google Earth teaching tactics with fellow educators, see student-created work, and read how other teachers are using Google Earth in the classroom.

Great ideas for next gen learning platforms. Think about how any of the tools mentioned might be integrated into your educational deliverable for EDTECH 523.

Helps make Google Apps for Education accessible for those with reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, or English Language Learners. They also have an app for the iPad.

Here is a online community for teachers.  I searched by topic and they had some good discussions about curriculum and one about using RSS for current event assignments.

A decent tool for dialogue practice between characters or character analysis for historical or fictional people.

Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century

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.

In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online. Yet, opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools.

We've updated our list of digital education tools and apps for formative assessment success and there are now 55 tools on the list. Take advantage of these great teacher tools and share what tools you use in the classroom for student feedback.

Nice tips for improving student peer review projects. Written for a face-to-face classroom, but most of these can be applied to an online setting.

The following blog post was written by Drew Schrader, director of assessment for New Tech Network (NTN). The opinions expressed in this blog post are Drew's and should not be taken to represent the Alliance for Excellent Education.

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.