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Something that needs close attention. If one is to be successful with online communication and information access (consider filling out an application form [more and more online only] or a tax form) literacy is imperative. Adult Basic Education seems to be first in line to be cut, which has some pretty major ramifications!

What is interesting is the collateral damage of those seated nearby being diverted by activity happening on someone else's screen. Wonder if that works the other way--in that if there is a strong focus on the lecture/class with well-organized notes being taken, does that behaviour/visual reinforce the behaviour of those sitting nearby....

Interesting shift in teacher education content. Indeed, harkens back to Randy's comment about use technology if it helps, not as a driver of education. :)

Scoop.it allows you to bring together topics of interest in one location, for easy access. This Scoop.it site, curated by a Miss Noor, contains hundreds of scooped websites relating to Web 2.0. The focus is the best resources and tools of web 2.0 in the classroom. You could spend hours exploring the different links and feel like you have just touched the surface.

This Glog, created by Sue Oxnevad, is titled "Google Docs For Learning". There are 12 notes attached to this online poster board. When you click on each, you are taken to different presentation formats and instructed how you can use Google Docs, and in some instances retailed web tools, in relation to the folllowing: * Assignment Tracker: Google Forms * Build Vocabulary * Digital Notes: Google Docs and Readability Martlet * Guided Learning * Mind Mapping * Multi Media * Organization: Google Calendar * Project Based Learning * Self-Grading Quiz: Google Form * Templates: Use Google Docs Templates * Word Posters: Google Draw * Writers Workshop

You must check out this blog. It presents ideas for efficient and effective tech integration. One tab focuses on professional development options for 21st century educators, each topic relating to using technology in the classroom. There is a page on Digital Literacy Badges, Google Docs; the list goes on as some of the pages have multiple tabs to take you to even more information. I could spend hours exploring. It is amazing the number of different online sites available for teachers to host content and for students to present their understanding. The host of this blog Sue Oxenvad also offers online professional development, which you can register for on the blog.

Sir Ken chats about education in terms of nurturing learning environments

Not just for higher education (though these aren't the first k-12 MOOCS and the professional development aspect could have some interesting outcomes....

Re: "Online learning shaking up the world of education," Jan. 30. Monday I started a MOOC (massive open online course) at the University of Edinburgh, "An Introduction to Philosophy." Eighty thousand students are enrolled. My email inbox is crammed with hundreds of introductory personal statements covering what meals students just ate, major obsessions, relationships, etc.

Twenty years from now, many colleges and universities will be closed, their classrooms deserted and their students learning at home. These are the predictions of many post-secondary commentators these days. What is it that has changed so drastically? Is it that students are more demanding, faculty less committed, budgets too tight?

A bit of a departure from education per se, but an interesting look at tweeting and where it may be evolving. And if Facebook is now 'old' how soon will it take for Twitter to be old...?

Dissonance between top down and bottom up adoption can be challenging.... What do administrators where you are think....?

This is a great site with tons of resources. It was the resource package used for the "Foundations of Virtual Education" MOOC offered by Coursera. It well organized and provides a good overview.

This is a good review of the chapters that we read from Karen Kear in 503. The article talks about the various tools used to communicate with students and their effects on both the asynchronous and synchronous learner.

The Community of Inquiry Framework is a powerful tool for helping to design and organize online learning environments. The Webinar series are great learning activities for professionals engaged in online education.

As more educators turn to gamification to teach core curriculum and engage students, how can we ensure that these games have real educational value and are not just entertainment? This is a collection of stories and resources to help answer that question.

An article by Rick Wormeli at the University of Victoria that speaks to how to effectively manage rewrites and redos in the classroom. An interesting read.

I first saw this article a few years? ago and we used it to create a redo policy/guideline for our high school. It is a good article to share and really got me thinking about redos and re-writes. It got me promoting this allot more as a result reading this. The whole idea is to get students to learn and if redoing helps, well why not. the flip side is it has created more work for me by having to create another test if that is involved because I do not give the same one. Of course I have to re-mark it. All good as long as the student is putting more time into learning.

Terry Heike from TeachThought has compiled this wonderful list of apps, resources, graphs, charts, and more to help project-based learning be successful for your class.