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offers a great variety of video resources in several disciplines which SUNY faculty may excerpt to use in their online courses. A list of programming resources, including Annenberg/CPB (see their video catalog http://www.learner.org/catalog/catalog.html ) can be found at the following address: http://www.nyn.suny.edu/cable/programming.htm\ . If you would like to adapt any of these materials to your online course, please send your request to: geotucker@nyn.suny.edu See their online video catalog for a partial list of program providers and their web links. Their web sites are full of print and other materials designed to enhance your experience of these programs.

"18 Graduate Programs Embracing Game-Based Learning"

I teach in this online program at SUNY Albany http://t.co/21qkzNqOSJ #teacherpreparation #onlinelearning #edchat #instructionaldesign

Swiss PDB Viewer is a free program to display, analyze and manipulate PDB protein structures. Next to features such as protein superimposition, H-bond detection, amino acid mutation etc., the protein is tightly linked to Swiss- Model, an automated homology modeling server running at the Geneva Biomedical Research Center. This allows for threading a protein primary sequence to a 3D template and analyzing homology. The displaying options of the program include spacefill, ball & stick, stick and ribbon representations, all of which can be applied simultaneously within one structure model.

"School Maestro III is a comprehensive teacher productivity tool. The included grading program is the most advanced program available and supports a wide variety of different grading methods. It also tracks attendance and discipline, does seating charts, allows subjective grades, creates reusable lesson plans, report cards, honor rolls, GPAs, and transcripts. Reports are available via the Internet and form letters with optional report attachments may be emailed. "

From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used. Whether you need a sophisticated calculator or an integrated technical programming environment, Mathematica provides you with a complete solution. You can perform a single task - like analyzing data or solving a tricky differential equation - or develop an entire solution, prototype, or application.

10 UTILIZING THE COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY FRAMEWORK TO PROVIDE QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN IN DISTANCE EDUCATION SOCIAL WORK PROGRAMS 

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages"

A Microsoft Account (Windows Live ID) is required to sign up for the Skype for Business Preview Program. If you need to create a new Microsoft Account, or link a login to your current business account, you can do that here.

Does class size matter? http://www.magnapubs.com/newsletter/distance-education-report/270/Does-Class-Size-Matter-13523-1.html This article originally appeared in Distance Education Report. I've been the director of online education at my institution since 2007. One question I've been asked many times over the years is "What is the optimal number of students to have in an online class?" My usual response is to pretend I didn't hear the question and walk away as quickly as possible. Well, that's not totally true. But as you can imagine, this is not an easy question to answer, as there are many variables that come into play--the topic of the class, the overall course design, the academic rank of students in the class, the experience of the instructor teaching the class, etc. I've had many interesting discussions with students, staff and administrators over the years about enrollments in online courses. When I first started teaching online, my courses would fill almost immediately, sometimes within minutes. Inevitably, students would contact me and request an override for the course - not just one or two students, but dozens upon dozens of students. They were usually surprised when I said no. These frustrated students would often reply with a comment such as, "But it's an online class, so you can take unlimited numbers of students and it won't be any additional work for you." Surprisingly, I've heard this kind of comment from some faculty, staff and administrators as well. I usually view these interactions as opportunities to offer a bit of education about online learning. So I might say, for example, that if I had seven graded assignments in my online course, and 25 students, I would end up grading 175 assignments--with the emphasis on "I." However, if I doubled the number of students in my class and graded seven assignments for 50 students, that would be 350 assignments to grade. There were also 22 quizzes, two exams and multiple