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"The International Association for K-12 Online Learning's (iNACOL) Director of Policy, David Teeter, recently published "Online Learning: Top 5 Federal Policy Issues Brief," which takes a close look at reforms to improve student-centered, competency-based policies for online learning." iNACOL Releases 5 Policy Reforms for Online Learning http://t.co/YPHJl3Iw

Like any presentation, you can include text and graphics. With Presentista, you can also add YouTube videos, Google Images and photos from Flickr. This allows you to make your presentation your own. Features: Browser based presentation creator. A new of way of making presentations. Supports YouTube, Flickr and Google Images. Easy to use "flow" system instead of slides.

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"We're happy to announce that a new EPUB export feature has been enabled on English Wikipedia. You can use it to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate free ebooks. These can be read on a broad range of devices, like mobile phones, tablets and e-ink based e-book readers."

"In an effort to provide unique resources to teachers and students, SPICE has developed a series of web-based activities and lectures, which were developed to support specific SPICE curricula or presented at teacher workshops. This website will be updated periodically."

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Each week Finding Education post's a "Quiztory" based on historical facts presented in "On This Day" for the previous week. Eclectic!

Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.

Math Warehouse offers numerous interactive Flash-based activities for middle school or secondary students. In addition to the interactives, Math Warehouse provides worksheets and links. The interactives provide ways to experiment with concepts followed by practice problems.

this network is a consortium in Philadelphia that runs high-quality networks (Internet2). Programming is free for members but fee-based for nonmembers. It's free to join the listserv.

I will be sharing sites I found in an article called Bring the Word into Your Classroom.

This site is based in England and lists mostly UK contacts. You can visit UK museums and historical sites and match up with classrooms.

I will be sharing sites I found in an article called Bring the Word into Your Classroom.

"Are you ready to solve the challenges of space? Join the RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge! This is a unique education initiative that targets students in grades 9-12 and encourages them to explore and build skills essential for successful careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) through two phases of project-based learning and team competition"

"Learning Management + Social Networking- Schoology is a free web-based learning management system (LMS) built on a social network. Schoology leverages the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication and collaboration."

DesignBlocks is a drag-and-drop programming language based on Scratch, TurtleArt and Processing. It is being developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

"ALA Graphics is pleased to present the READ® image generator. This tool allows you to create small, web-based READ images for nonprofit use in online applications such as avatars, blogs and web buttons. "

a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique. Recommended by K. Hokanson

"OpenZine is a social publishing platform with browser based tools that provides regular people with the essential tools to create really amazing things, display it with equal quality and enables them to socially share, control and manage their ideas. The best way to describe what OpenZine provides is by understanding how magazines work. Magazines have a staff of writers, photographers, designers, illustrators and editors that create & contribute. Here at OpenZine you create & contribute on those same principles but your resources are other OpenZine users! "

Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.