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Educators at a new technology-themed high school in New York City found that students came to the school with a wide variety of technological expertise. "There is that expression: digital natives. But just because somebody knows how to send a text and get an e-mail, doesn't mean they know how to be digital learners," the school's principal said. The school features a blended-learning model that combines online learning with face-to-face instruction.

This is an web-based authoring tool that allows one to create an interactive lesson, and export it as a SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2 object which can be imported into a LMS. One can add a variety of media such as voice, text, video, and still images. One can also import a PowerPoint presentation. An interesting feature is that one can intersperse assessment screens to check student learning. Assessments can be graded or non-graded.

Chapter from a book that has an instructor work through a series of exercises to develop online instruction that adheres to best practices. Examples are taken from Nursing.

This blog is an interview with Stewart Mader who writes extensively about uses of wikis in education and in the business world. He offers numerous educational uses for wikis in the classroom.