Tutorials on a range of Google products. Want time to go through this one!

Lightweight collab tool - think etherpad.

Writing learning objectives that not only provide context, but create a roadmap to engaging activities and online content.

Really great little introduction to Mahara and Mahara views.

A beginner's guide to the Mac OSX from a nuts and bolts perspective. Half hour long - but I paused to try apply what I was learning as I learned so took me a few hours. Well worth it - I feel much more comfy with what is for me a whole new OS!

Two years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Center for American Progress, and Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute came together to grade the states on school performance. In that first Leaders and Laggards report, we found much to applaud but even more that requires urgent improvement. In this follow-up report, we turn our attention to the future, looking not at how states are performing today, but at what they are doing to prepare themselves for the challenges that lie ahead.

School committee voted to fire the entire staff at a small, high-poverty school that was performing badly - a move reportedly applauded by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.  Yet another reason to hate the worship of standardised, summative testing results being used to evaluate schools.

Gary Stager's keynote

some rules of writing...

Pre-service and in-service teacher and employee digital literacy evaluation tool. Educational Testing Services' iCriticalThinking (TM) Certification program is endorsed by the Global Digital Literacy Council and aligned with standards from the US's Association of Colleges and Research Libraries. "The core of the iCritical Thinking™ certification program is an outcomes-based examination that can  be incorporated into pre-service training and in-service development programs and used by administrators and education officials for consideration in teacher evaluation,training, placement, and advancement."

Millions of students, teachers, and professors use eInstruction® technology in 400,000 K-12 classrooms and more than 1,000 higher-education institutions around the world. Available in 40 languages, eInstruction technology is enhancing education in more than 90 countries worldwide. eInstruction® is headquartered in Denton, Texas, with offices in Columbia, Maryland, Scottsdale, Arizona, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Paris, France.

Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and moreDiscover modify and share assessmentsSet work for the whole class with a few mouseclicksMark automaticallyAnalyse with tools that improve your teaching FREE

a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers

Doing What Works (DWW) is a website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of DWW is to create an online library of resources that may help teachers, schools, districts, states and technical assistance providers implement research-based instructional practice. DWW is led by the Office of Planning, Evaluation & Policy Development (OPEPD) at the U.S. Department of Education. OPEPD relies on the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education (and occasionally other entities that adhere to standards similar to those of IES) to evaluate and recommend practices that are supported by rigorous research.

Create an account, review and comment on the first phase - draft K-10 curriclum in English, History, mats and science.  15 min intro video on front page gives overview