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21st Century Education Research & Resources
Research and Leadership
Discussion
MindShift (research, policy, and cultural issues-blog)
Free Online Textbooks/Courses
1:1 Resources
Articles and Research
Only as effective as the teacher (eSchool)
A study of 1:1 in math and science (Henrico HS)
A computer for every student (Irving HS)
School will change, with or without following rules (MindShift)
Little Falls Gets Real About iPads (newspaper story)
iPad helps cut school costs (Kare11)
Laptops for learning (task force study)
One to one computing: the last piece of the puzzle (eSchool news)
One to one learning with laptops (blog)
1:1 on the rise (the journal)
Education's Guide to Mobile Devices (eSchool)
Breaking through barriers to learning (eSchool)
Technology that stretches ed tech dollars (eSchool)
Interactive Learning in a Connected Classroom (eSchool)
Boosting Math Skills Through Personalized Instruction (eSchool)
Managing Funds (Tech & Learning)
Illinois I-Connect (Technology Immersion Pilot Project)
North Carolina Funding Triangle (partnerships)
Transforming Your School With E-Rate (white paper)
Indiana ditches textbooks for laptops (NYTimes)
Kansas leading the fight for fair eBook access in labraries (Information Today)
eBook survey shows dramatic growth (Library Journal)
BYOT (Bring your own technology--podcast)
Learning with Technology: The impact of laptops on student performance(paper)
Wireless Writing Project (Vancouver)
The Effect of Computers on Students Writing (Journal of Techology, Learning and Assessment)
Learning with Technology: The Impact of Laptop Use on Student Achievement (Journal of Techonlogy, Learning and Assessment)
Project Based Learning (ideas and planning)
How to bring our schools out of the 20th century (Time)
Educating the Net Generation (Educause)
Keys to Implementing a Laptop Program (Education World)
Successful Strategies for MLTI Schools (Maine initiative)
Learning from Laptops
Lessons Learned about Providing Laptops to All Students (NEIR-TEC)
Obama's Tech Recovery Plan (eSchool News)
Teens and the Internet (PEW)
Teens, the Internet and Communication Technology (PEW)
Evaluation of the Kent Technology Academy (2007)
Critical Inquiry in the age of social media (ALA)
P.D.A. in the Library (Inside Higher Ed)
Why there's no Kindle freedom in libraries (Inside Higher Ed)
What students don't know (Inside Higher Ed)
Mobile picks up steam (Inside Higher Ed)
A home for netbooks at school (the Journal)
The state of tech podcast (tablets-1 hour)
Do Netbooks Have Net Worth?
Going online: Teachers aim for cheap digital text books
How to teach young children in the digital age (eSchool News)
Annual report reveals online learning's rapid rise (eSchool News)
Schools turn to in-house experts for tech training (US News & World Report)
The Last Person (Friedman, NYTimes)
Creating Laptop Success: Training is the Key (Teaching Today)
Laptop Insurance form (Maine)
My Teacher is an App (Wall Street Journal)
Flipping for Beginners (Harvard Education Letter)
Mentoring and Coaching for Successful Tech Integration (Edutopia)
Kobo Announces $99 eReader (Media Beat)
Coaching, the New Leadership Skill (ASCD)
Coaching and Mentoring: There is a Difference
Coaching and Mentoring Links (index)
Is a tablet better than an e-reader for students? (tecca)
iPads in schools: Replacing Backpacks (Education Week Teacher)
The beginning of the end of Adobe Flash (CNN Money)
Measuring 1:1 Results (the Journal)
School Districts Struggle with Laptop Repair (eSchool News)
Mooresville Graded Schools (Virginia 1:1)
Does your school's IT prepare your students for their future or your past?(white paper)
Survey of school administrators (EdTech)
What does research say? (Brief)
LF to add digital learning specialist (Morrison Co Record)
Saco Students Get High Tech Head Start
Rural Students Lost in Connectivity Gap
iPad Pilot in Willmar
With online testing on the horizon, infrastructure could be a challenge
College Students Go Without Textbooks as Costs Rise
Georgia's largest district launches all digital learning platform
The New Digital Divide
With online testing, infrastructure could be a challenge
Nevis continues to pursue tablet computers
Tech Planning Thoughts
Online School in the Summer
As budgets get stretched, schools turn to free digital tools (w/ list)
Ed Project Evaluation Guidelines
Islands in the Stream: Academic Technology, Digital Copyright, and The TEACH Act
YouTube launches a section just for schools
Comparing Google Apps to Microsoft Live
10 Biggest stories of 2011: iPads
10 Biggest stories of 2011: BYOD
Prepare students for their future, not your past
Setting up 1 to 1: Classroom Management (MS site)
1:1 Laptop Program: Planning for Success (to do list)
Experts share their ed-tech predictions for 2012
Digital classrooms: Is the investment paying off?
Minnetonka Technology Archive
Unique Challenges Facing IT Professionals in K12 Schools
6 ingredients for the 21st Century classroom
Educational apps for early learners see huge jump
Teacher Technology Change (well written research report)
Teacher Collaboration with Digital Tools
Apple Unveils Interactive Textbooks, Revamped iTunes U
Winners and Losers (in Apple Textbook authoring)
Teacher Collaboration with Digital Tools (eSchool News)
eBook pilot could save college students a 'huge amount of money'
$3M gaming project could help spark STEM education
Apple iBooks 2 license agreement gets icy reception in higher ed
Feds Look To Accelerate E-Textbook Adoption with 'Digital Textbook Playbook'
New report examines international ed-tech policies
Dover-Eyota Netbook Program
One district's experience with iPads
Digital Learning: What Kids Really Want
Can BYOT programs help bridge the digital divide? (Mankato)
Model classroom project focuses on technology use
The Digital Learning Imperative (study)
$30 textbooks coming for five intro college courses
Free textbooks coming for five intro college courses
OpenStax (free textbook initiative)
Mooresville's Shining Example (NY Times)
A first-hand look inside a flipped classroom
21 Things that will be Obsolete by 2021
Prepping for the e-future
Results of the Maine Laptop Initiative
One to One Literature Review
Project Red Literature Review
Instructional Design (Irving Schools)
Educational Outcomes of 1:1 (Arizona State)
Mass Customized Learning’: The key to education reform?
Study finds classroom technology has positive effect on student learning
How to make one-to-one computing a success
Minnetonka iPad initiative (Kare 11)
Quantitative Studies on 1 to 1
One To One Computing (Literature Review)
Classroom Management with 1-1
The Waterbed Effect in K-12 Education (the Journal)
Using mobile devices as student response systems (video)
Building 21st Century Writings (in a 1-1 environment)
4 Keys to creating effective online learning programs
iPad App for notetaking
Realizing the power of ‘open’ to transform higher education
Online Teacher of the Year: Individualized instruction is key
College students: Tablets will replace textbooks by 2017
Tablets Haven't Killed the PC Yet
Going Paperless (podcast)
Rebuilding the LMS for the 21st Century (21st c. learning)
Review: International laptop program does not improve education (due to poor staff development)
Facebook returns to its roots with Groups for Schools
Ed-tech best practices: April 2012
Teachers, parents want more technology
The need to digitize materials in the next 5 years
Student Research: The right information at the right time
The road ahead for 1-1
Lessons from 1:1 adopters (the)
One to One Computing in Schools (state-wide)
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Studies
Policies and Documents (examples)
School Sites and Resources
Chaska (technology referendum)
Best Practices
Directories of 1:1 Information
One-to-one (One to One Institute, a nat'l non-profit)
AALF (1:1 resources and links)
Study Tools
Conference Materials
Planning
Reviews of Initiative Implementation
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Blended and Online Learning Resources and Course Materials
Moodle
erdc Moodle User Group (login required)
MoodleShare (downloadable courses)
Moodle Add-On for Office (edit Moodle docs w/o upload)
Installing Moodle plugin (video)
Best practices for Moodle in K-12 education (webinar)
The Good Teacher (Using MoodleDocs)
Moodle Plug-In Directory
Moodle Plug-In (for commenting on posts)
Moodle Plug-in Directory
Creating a quiz in Moodle (Youtube)
Using Groups in Moodle (Youtube)
Groupings in Moodle (Youtube pt.2-for 2 sections of 1 class)
NROC Courses (Mr. Beckermann has password)
Moodle Rooms (some instructional links)
Open-Source Textbooks/Content
MN OER (from MN Learning Commons)
MN Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum (MN textbooks)
OER Commons (directory of OER matierals)
CK12 Flexbooks (California state initiative and more)
CK12 Tutorials (videos)
Boundless (search for textbook and get free alternatives)
Wikibooks (free online textbook material)
Wikibooks, WikiJunior
OpenStax (free textbook initiative)
OER (Open Educational Resources Directory w/ reviews)
Hippocampus (math, science, social, create playlists, etc.)
National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
Saylor (Free online education-many subjects)
MERLOT (peer reviewed online materials)
Online Grammar (made with moodle)
dotepub (turn file into ePub or Mobi, won't work at school)
dotepub video tutorial (YouTube)
Online Colleges (list and links)
Udacity (free online college courses)
Turning Wikipedia into an eBook (CNN)
Mathmatics Vision Project (by Utah state gov't)
Library of Congress Materials (search by standards)
US History.org (US History, US Government, Ancient Civ.)
Project Gutenberg (free, out-of-copyright books)
Lit2Go (free audio books in mp3 format)
US History text from America.gov (pdf format)
Open Course Library (OER college course materials)
Wellcome Trust (UK sciences site)
Open Professionals Education Network (find OERs)
Search Creative Commons (open images, etc.)
Open Education (British Columbia)
List of open source textbooks (from BC)
Open Access Textbooks (OATS--a list-directory)
OpenClass (Online course building with OER Exchange, searchable directory from Pearson)
NROCmath.org (free math courses for moodle)
Edready (powerful NROC for math/English due in 2014)
Shmoop for Schools (online resources)
TedEd (Ted talks with teacher tools like lesson builder, quizzes and pre-viewing activities--requires YouTube)
OpenEd (Flipped Classroom for Common Core)
PowerMyLearning (Free resources, search by commom core)
Gooru Learning (search for free courses and content)
Curriki (free learning resources)
Blossoms (MIT Math and Science videos and simulations)
Open Textbook Library (catalog of open textbooks, open lic.)
Connexions (free modules, organize into books)
Arxiv (e-prints in sciences from Cornell, all open access)
Open MOOCs (all open licensed)
Directory of Open Access Journals (lists open journals)
PubMed (all NIH funded pubs free here)
Public Library of Science (all open licensed)
Math-Science
Khan Academy (math, science, etc. videos)
Organic Chemistry (online courses)
Wolfram Education Portal (Math-Science interactives, texts)
CK12 Flexbooks (California state initiative and more)
Open Source College Algebra and Trig Textbook
Hippocampus science simulations
Hippocampus (math, science)
Business
MIT Platform Wars (business simulation)
College
Harvard Open Learning (online courses)
Princeton Online Courses (free classes)
Open Yale Course (online videos)
Yale Art History (online courses)
Flatworld (Open college texts)
Curriculum Repositories
Curriki (open curriculum sharing site)
Curriki (free algebra course)
Gooru (resources, lessons, practice-coming soon)
Minnesota Learning Commons (from MN Dept. of Ed)
Online courses from MN Commons
Connexions (teaching modules)
Smarthistory (videos-experts debate art)
Learning Registry (idea repository from US Gov)
Good Typing (online typing course)
Thinkfinity (lessons and interactives)
Sophia (online units with multimedia)
Sophia (free college prep courses)
National Repository For Online Courses
WizIQ
Hippocampus (Math, Science, Social Studies)
Literature Lesson Index
Innovative Activities (Activities, Bell Ringers, etc.)
OER (Online Resource Evaluation Tool)
Coursera (Free Online College Course)
BetterLesson (Lesson Sharing Site)
LearnZillion (Lesson sharing for common core)
OpenTapestry (Lesson sharing in the open world)
PowerMyLearning (Online Interactives)
ShareMyLesson (Digital Learning Resources from AFT)
Webinars
Moodle
Improving Reading through adaptive online instruction
Blended Learning
The eSchool Webinar, Erasing the Limits: Sharpening Your Students’ Edge while Watching Your Bottom Line through Blended Learning
Collaborize Classroom and Online Participation
9 Ed Tech Predictions for 2012 (podcast)
Creating Student eFolios with Google Sites (Moodle Course)
Alternatives to student clickers (by a HS)
Achieving Information Literacy and Competency (turnitin)
Plagiarism and the Web (turnitin)
Virtual Writing Instruction (turnitin)
Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom (eSchool News)
Finding the Bucks (CMLE)
Art of the Flipped Classroom (eSchool News)
The Art of the Flipped Classroom pt. 2 (Mastery)
Going Paperless (podcast)
Making Thinking Visible with the Flipped Classroom (eSchool News)
Podcast on Flipped Classroom (The State of Tech)
Many Uses of Online Learning (connections)
3 Flipped Classroom Webinars
The Digital Transition: An LMS Success Story (1:1 phase 1)
Staff Development
Willard Schools Example (using Moodle)
Fayette School Example (using Moodle)
Moodle as a PD-Staff Dev Tool (example)
Education for the Information Age (online textbook for teachers)
ASCD (iTunes U staff development videos)
Online Blended Learning Course (can take for free or credit)
Online and Blended Learning Teacher Certification Program
Resources For Online Instruction
Online Student Code of Conduct
Consent form for students under 13
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines
Understanding Blended Learning
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Online Discussion Strategies
Flipped Classroom
Videos for Instruction
ed.ted.com (flipped content in several content areas, w/ quizzes)
Local Video Hosting
KeepVid (get YouTube videos and more)
Tools
Articles and Research
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Web 2.0 Resources
Organize-Plan-Prewrite
MangaHigh (Math game)
Quizlet (online flashcards for many subjects)
Study Blue (largest online flashcard site)
Kahoot (online quizzes, polling, games)
Socrative (online student response system)
Sketching
Sketch Toy (draw over graph paper)
Up and Coming
Pixlr (photo editing-like Photoshop but online)
Flipsnack (create an online flipbook)
diigo (online bookmarking, sharing, sticky-notes, etc.)
diigo (directions)
Piclit (creative writing with pictures)
Crocodoc (markup and share pdfs, word docs, images)
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Google Apps Resources
Noodle Tools Resources
Miscellaneous
Edmodo (create a classroom social network)
Evernote (online repository for images, notes, etc.)
Photo Editing
Aviary (photo and audio editing, screen capture)
flickr (online photo hosting and editing)
Video
Wink (create software tutorials with screenshots, etc.)
Zoho (suite of free online tools)
Audio
VozMe (text to voice to mp3 all online--easy)
Timelines
Timeline (registration required-xtimeline)
Directories
Cindy Patton's Tismo page of links (flashcards, slideshows, go animate, Toondo, Glogster, panaramio, slideshare, wordpress, wallwisher, 280 slides, prezi, terraclues, wikispaces, surveymonkey, animoto, live polling, pbworks)
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Lesson Planning Resources
Professional Development Resources
ASCD (educational topics)
CARET (centers on science and technology)
CITE (Contemporary Issues in Technology & Teacher Education)
Edutopia (George Lucas Foundation for teaching innovation)
NWEA (our testing service with resources)
Rubistar (Great online tool for creating rubrics)
Audio and Video Resources
Lit2Go (audio books through St. Cloud)
Training & Tutorial Resources
Office 2010 Training
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Tutorials (Only Available on DCHS Campus)
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Multi-Media Tools for Teachers
Pdf Merge (merge several pdfs into one document)
KeepVid (get YouTube videos and more)
Crocodoc (allows you to annotate digital content)
Paint.net (free online photo editor--i.e. Photoshop 4.0)
ZamZar (convert files and get YouTube videos)
Reference
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Finding Lexile Levels for Textbooks
State of MN Education Links
Research
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