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Here's a group of links that Edutopia compiled


http://www.edutopia.org/digital-learning-technology-resources?utm_source=housead&utm_medium=rectanglehousead&utm_campaign=digitallearningday2013


Here are some samples:

Online Learning and Blended Classrooms

• Blended Learning Series, by Lisa Michelle Dabbs, Andrew Miller, and Heather Wolpert-Gawron (2012)
  This three-part blog series covers tips and strategies for incorporating blended learning -- a combination of both online and face-to-face education -- in the classroom.
• Five-Minute Film Festival: Flipped Classrooms, by Amy Erin Borovoy (2012)
  Learn more about the challenges and benefits of flipped classrooms, where lectures are assigned as homework and hands-on learning happens in class, in this playlist of videos from VideoAmy.
• Connecting Project-Based and Blended Learning, by Brian Greenberg (2011)
  PBL and blended learning prove to be two educational approaches worth combining.
• Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity (2011) 
  The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.
• Schools That Work: The Brave New Breakthrough of Online Learning (2010)
  Discover how K-12 students and teachers from across the country are using virtual technology to create enhancements to their learning experiences and new success in their lives.

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Teaching with New Media Tools

• Six Tips for Teachers: How to Maximize Shared Resources, by Mary Beth Hertz (2012)
  Blogger Mary Beth Hertz suggests six ways to overcome the problems of technology resource sharing in a school where there may not be enough to go around.
• Challenging the Model of 1:1 with BYOD, by Amanda Paquette (2012)
  Tech specialist Amanda Paquette describes how her school district is blending the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and 1:1 classroom technology models to meet students' needs.
• Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom, by Ben Johnson (2011)
  Blogger Ben Johnson shares iPad features to assist in classroom learning as well as apps to include in curriculum.
• Doing More with Less (and Other Practical Educational Technology Tidbits), by Adam Bellow (2011)
  Adam Bellow, Outstanding Young Educator at ISTE, shares his thoughts on simple ways of integrating technology.
• Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media Guide, by Edutopia Staff (2011)
  Our downloadable PDF classroom guide is full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success. This guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve.

This is an example of excellent curating.

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