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The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is "providing a high quality education for anyone, anywhere". The website supplies a free online collection of more than 4,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science. Khan Academy has delivered over 240 million lessons.

An online resource to track workouts.

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?

Another part of the equation --retention! Some interesting comments,too,about requisite skills

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.

Online assessment tool that reduces and focuses information submitted by the creator.

By Rob McTaggart. "We all have a digital tattoo, and if we do not choose how to ink it, somebody else will. Rob McTaggart discusses how we might move the fear-based cybersafety agenda forward toward a conversation about digital empowerment and supporting our students' growth in an online world."

Common Sense Media has been my go to place to stay abreast of online safety issues and perspectives on youth and media. This piece has some great reviews of services and apps... some benign... some scary. Quick and easy read. Well organized.

A digital poster creation site~benefits include: -Open log-in so if students already have Twitter, Google, or Facebook accounts, it's simple to save, publish, and log-in -Integrates multimedia -Able to share and interact with others~comments and reactions in the side window. -Web tool for any platform--iPads, PC's...

A few project-based tools for hands-on and collaborative learning experiences

Sometimes forgotten, for it is certainly not new or "sexy", yet a powerful quizzing tool to add to your collection of non-LMS Web 2.0 resources. Very, very robust. Allows you to manage classes, quizzes, and reports. Easy to use. Stable (I first started to use it over a decade ago). Once you create an account, you will see the tabs across the top of the page for instructors.

(The easiest, most sophisticated tool for showing the best of you online, all in one place. Connect your social media content and make a great impression now.) Their words, not mine! Anyway, out of curiosity followed up on an article author and clicked on his vizify page.... Wow--so 'sexy' and slick (or so it appears). Looks like a terrific alternate to a paper resume (and Facebook profile). I'll be checking it out more in detail--it may also be useful as a non-LMS. Cheers! :)

Okay--it would be a lot of fun to do a character analysis using this.....

I know I need this! "Want to step your Twitter game up? Think you're supposed to actually type a full 140 characters for each tweet? Not quite. That's just one of the many handy tips found in this useful Twitter Cheat Sheet."

Dave Cormier's blog post about the motives of different vested interests and their relationship to MOOCs

An inspiring vision of where our schools could be headed, with students utilizing the power of the internet to the fullest, and becoming fully responsible for what they are learning and how they learn it.

A site that is promoting coding in schools. Resources and testimonials on why this is a skill that should be taught in our schools, and where this knowledge will take our students.