Please feel free to post any exceptional resources or tools specifically pertaining to online resources for educators or for teacher professional development that may inform our own practices within Spark:
Companies and/or Labs that may be on to something...
PBS LearningMedia (used to be PBS Teach); Check out online PD offerings, too. Rumor has it, may go commercial.
Teachers Domain, Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development
Gooru - A Search Engine for Learning
Digital Human Library, connecting experts with learners (Canada)
Federal Registry for Educational Excellence from Dept of Ed.
Northwestern University's Project Access (Kemi Jona)
CIESE from Stevens Institute of Technology
E-mission Distance Learning Scenarios
Programming: Tynker, Alice, Scratch
SCALE UP movement for Student Centered Active Learning Center Environment w/ Upside-down Pedagoies
Untangling the Web (Adam Bellows): http://padlet.com/wall/ISTE13/wish/10581459
Flipasaurus.org
Center for Teaching Quality, CTQ
Other Websites
US Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Technology (OET), Richard Culatta, Interim Director
PBS Learning: What is CyberLearning? (Examples; Kemmi and other big players are featured.)
Center for Innovative Learning and Collaboration (CILC): Selection portal for Internet Video synchronous programs between schools and museums, labs, etc.
Edutopia - site designed for educators that brings research to practice. A lot on project-based learning.
Gigaom - tech innovation news across all markets
Science Buddies: Science careers, science fairs etc.
Understanding science, How science really works
Inkling Habitate - Ebooks; wow!
Teacher Learning Network, Australia
Online Communities, Organizations, Networks, Projects
edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. Join if you dare - too many webinars for one life!
HASTAC (Haystack), a consortium of scientists, social scientists, artists, humanists, & engineers committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology.
The Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and Internet (began this June for 12 month period)
Powerful Learning Practice - PD for Connected Educators
Educause: a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology.
National Girls STEM Collaborative
Afterschool Alliance
iSchools
Internet2 K20
EdTech Talks - Teachers Teaching Teachers
ISTE
Connected Educator Month (October), Dept. of Ed.
Triangle Coalition for STEM Education
People Contacts, External - here's a few to start:
Kemmi Jona, Northwestern University, remote labs and virtual labs leader
Internet2 K20 Committee members led by James Werle who were with us last August 2012
Jerry McCarthy, CO Governor's Office for Information Technology (at I2 meeting), CO Distance Learning, jerry.mccarthy@state.co.us (Receive Jerry's newsletter if interested)
Nikunj Oza is the leader of the Data Sciences Group at NASA Ames Research Center. His expertise: big data. See more at: http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston/speakers#sthash.afQm5ljG.dpuf
NSF: Edith Gummer, Janice Earle, Barry Sloane, and Arlene de Strulle (Technology and Education/Educational Research)
Dr. Sherry His, LHS, and co-lead for SMILE Pathway (w/ Exploratorium more long period, too)
Philip Bell, University of Washington; Brita Barron, Stanford, Life Center Co-PIs
Internal collaborators:
COMET crew; Jeff Custard, CISL NETS and FRGP; Rich Loft - CISL Outreach; Karon Kelly (DLS Assoc. Director); Mary Marlino (DLS Director at NCAR); Kaye Howe, Director NSDL; Tony - GLOBE; UCAR Connect committee members; Alison Rockwell - EOL EO Outreach (mostly post secondary)
Think Tanks Involved in Online or Cyberlearning Research
SRI International Center for Technology and Learning (CTL)
SRI International Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL)
MacArthur Foundation: Connected Learning Research Network
National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Computers and Information Technology and Education Technology Publications
Possible Grant Solicitations to Consider
NSF:
- Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR)
- Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning - An Ideas Lab to Foster Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
- Discovery Research K-12 (DRK-12)
- EHR Core Research (ECR)
- Marian Kaufmann Foundation
- Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) is a portfolio of activities to provide integrated cyber resources that will enable new multidisciplinary research opportunities in all science and engineering fields by leveraging ongoing investments and using common approaches and components.
Conferences specific to online learning (listed to give us a sense of rapid growth in this area and importance of being savvy about conference choices/communities/opportunities) - and there of course are still more!
Learning Analytics and Knowledge
Consortium of School Networking (CoSN)
Digital Media and Learning (DML), March
EdNET 2013, Fall Denver
Educause National Conference (basically ISTE for higher ed.), October
Educon, late January
International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE), June
Museums and the Web, Spring
Social Learning Bootcamp, September
Tableau Conference, DC, Data Analytics and Visualizations (Tableau is a free software product for data)