SUNY Online Teaching Community Resources

Browser based photo editing, drawing, and image creation

Formative feedback in the form of questions.

"# I use Twitter to get the pulse of people in the larger online world. # I use Twitter to communicate in two directions. # I use Twitter to promote important causes, as well as business opportunities. # I use Twitter to promote other people's stuff 12 times as much I as do mine (12:1 rule). # I use Twitter to stay updated on people's shared news. # I use Twitter as a quick pulse-taking service. # I use Twitter to find business (via search). # I use Twitter to stream links to my stuff and to others' stuff. # I use Twitter to connect with humans. "

"friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?""

Study outlining the relationship between how assessments are set up and how often students cheat. Some good info hear about online integrity.

The 21st Century Fluencies are not about technical prowess, they are critical thinking skills, and they are essential to living in this multimedia world. We call them fluencies for a reason. To be literate means to have knowledge or competence. To be fluent is something a little more, it is to demonstrate mastery and to do so unconsciously and smoothly.

Critical Thinking meets Technology

A mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and upload audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear.

Great audio tool ... embeds easily.

ok this is way cool. see also futuretrendsbook.com

Some great ideas on how to make grading more representative of a student's achievement level.

Nice overview of different learning theories.

"Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning"

"discuss the National Educational Technology Plan and how technology is shaping the future of education in America"

* Better cafeteria food with real ingredients * No school busses - nearly every child mentioned the bullying of bus rides as one of the reasons they hated school * More choice in their assignments or projects * Replace grades with feedback and portfolios (like we did in our class) * Staggered start and end times so that the school would "feel smaller" * More alternative sports in addition to the traditional ones * Off-campus community service once a week * Job-shadowing for one month of the year * A monthly educational field trip * iPads, netbooks or laptops in classes - they even brought up some interesting ways to raise money for these devices * More freedom in terms of leaving to use the restroom, eating a snack or getting a drink of water * More electives - while most of them agreed that we need math, they suggested that maybe they could choose pre-geometry or pre-algebra or in reading, they could have reading classes geared toward certain topics * A school garden