Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.

Sensational Search Engines... imagine if Google gave you a Lexile or AR Reading Level... Twurdy does!  I recently did a blog post on Sort Fix and received a lot of feedback, so I wanted to share a few others that I use and like... check all of my favorites out!  If you have one that you like, please let me know.

Erin Klein…

I've talked previously about the principle of offering practical advice. This is referring to the level of abstraction you employ when talking about the design of the learning experience. My gut feeling is that because researchers are often employed in Learning Technology positions the tendency is to more be too abstract. This is a completely anecdotal assertion (this blog gives me this kind of freedom of expression).



Aside from this, what are the qualities I need to possess to…

Rcampus is a fully featured application that provides a lot of it’s capabilities for free, but you will need to pay for some “premium” functions.

Last week I started researching free, hosted Course and Learning Management Systems, in search of those…

This will be a kind of re-tweet and nod to a great blog called “i Learn Technology” by Kelly Tenkely. In particular, Kelly just posted about We Choose The Moon. Here is her review of the site: http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=3671

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Here is a great little service that is perfect to stimulate and extend classroom activities and reinforce vocabulary discussion.  It would be a particularly great tool for English Language Learners.

As the name implies, you provide the text by cutting and pasting from any document - news reports, websites, student work - whatever. The site "sifts" through the text and…

When people first organize online experiences, they are frequently alarmed by phenomena that veterans expect. For example, you start a short open course online and you send the word out through your networks. A hundred people finish the sign-up task and become members. How many do you expect will respond to an assignment three weeks down the road?

Most people who buy books never read past the first few pages. Most people online lurk rather than participate actively. In the…

Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.

“Round 1” in a look at the many free, richly featured CMS & LMS apps available in the cloud.

What options exist for teachers who want to try using a Course Management System, but don’t have one available in their school? Fortunately, there are many free CMS/LMS tools available on the Internet. The heavy snows across the US this winter pushed the value of these tools to the forefront of my mind – courses hosted…

At the most recent NJECC meeting, I experienced my first "Web 2.0 smackdown (full site list in link)". It's a fun, erratic group sharing session, where individuals take turns demonstrating their recent Web 2.0 finds in 3 minutes. Two of the sites presented were particularly interesting to me since I hadn't seen them before:…

Gapminder's slogan is "for a fact-based world view", and it provides a fascinating look at the statistics behind world events. Spearheaded by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling, this site aims to use statistics to promote global development. Hans Rosling has given several…

This is my answer to a discussion Colin Chambers started at his game developer group Symbiotic Learning. Colin’s prompt was:

Please read the passage below, and then read it again, swapping GAME for SCIENCE, and decide whether you believe it applies to either games, science or both. I strongly believe gaming, as outlined by Jane, has a strong relation to science. What about you?

A…

IXLis a math practice tool for educators and families that adapts to a student's individual level of proficiency and includes achievement awards and progress monitoring data so you can view reports in ways that will work for all (teachers, parents,…

Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.