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Jono Bacon is Director of Community at Github and formerly led community at Canonical and XPRIZE. He wrote The Art of Community, founded the Community Leadership Summit, and writes columns for Forbes and opensource.com.

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.

Online Collaborative Story-writing game

"Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format. ProCon.org is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity" A great website to foster critical thinking, Common Core Reading and Writing and use in online learning.

As I mentioned earlier this week, I'm doing some research and writing on the idea of "transfer of learning." As part of that research, I've been exploring online simulations that could "transfer" learning to different situations students might realistically encounter in classes or outside of school.

How blogs are assessed depends on the assignment. You may assess each blog post (students respond to a given prompt) or you may assess all their entries together (students write regular entries without specific prompts, like a journal). Below are example rubrics for both types of blog assignments.

This is a cloud based music software that I use in my music classroom. Students can create their own music and share it with others. There is a collaboration feature that allows students and teachers to work together on a song. One of my favorite tools is the podcasting feature. My students instead of written summative tests create a series of podcast episodes where they speak about what they have learned, and they can collaborate together and even have guests on their episodes. This podcasting feature is great for students who struggle with writing and are better with speaking.