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A language learning tool, that's free. Very addictive, uses a game based structure. My students love it.

The network that brings together 44,519 OER, tools for sharing curriculum with the world, and news and training on the brave new world of open education.

Greenshot - a free screenshot tool optimized for productivity

A writing tool with sets of pictures by different artists that students can organize to create prompts for their writing. Stories can be saved to student accounts, and shared with, and commented on by their classmates

Digital literacy blog about using google advanced search as a way to teach kids to use the basic google search tool. A valuable brief for anyone who uses the internet.

For our Principles of Education course, we were given a reading on digital literacy by Alan November. In it, this blog is referenced. The reading and this blog really opened my eyes to the way that search engines work. I realized that in order to teach students to be digitally literate, I need to become much more digitally literate myself. A very insightful read.

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.

4 easy steps to flipping a lesson and suggested tools

Practical steps on how to create a PLE

A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad, Android, computer, or Kindle. The great part is it copies just the article without advertising and side menus, so no distractions. It also keeps a link to the original website for a quick and easy return.

This site has some great resources to help organize your digital workflow. The resources have been nicely organized and categorized into the following areas: Within a Learning Management System; On a Webpage, Wiki or Blog; Using a Web Tool both Teachers and Students can curate content; Using Open Educational Resources; Using Primary Source Material ... and more.

This is a terrific tool to select apps for non-LMS build

I am so glad I happened across this. In preparation for next week I am revisiting my bookmarked links and came across all of your awesome links Avi! Thank-you!

A very interesting tool to view numbers of searches of various topics. I compared searches for education and sports in Canada and found the information quite revealing.

Free and stable. A very robust and secure online discussion platforms. Easy to use and moderate. Easy to set up and begin. Discussions, polls, debates. Allows attachment of pictures, videos, PDF, Microsoft documents. Reports and results; grouping of students...

A good tool to add to your Non-LMS toolkit

A very robust online classroom that includes discussion, quizzes, calendars, polls, gradebooks, assignment annotation, and much more. Very dynamic and free. The help centre provides video tutorials: http://help.edmodo.com/?subdomain=www

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."

Offline use of iPads: "Just about every article on using iPads in education involves one key feature: connectivity. Whether it's wi-fi or cellular service, being connected to the web is by far the most important feature for iPads in the classroom. Otherwise, it's just what the tech-bloggers call a 'brick' and is essentially worthless. Right?"

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...?

This site has lots of resources for education, with a specific BC curriculum focus. There is also a nice focus on First Nations topics across a number of subject areas. It could be a good idea to take a closer look for things like lessons plans or lesson ideas if you're running low on creativity.

I thought this was a really cool set of resources directly from NASA. Most of it is aimed at educators from a K-12 level. There is some really interesting stuff here, especially for educators in the science and technology fields. It even breaks down what audiences resources are appropriate for. I think the fact that NASA is involved could be a built-in way to grad student attention, right off the bat (I would love to check out a NASA webinar as a secondary student)