For Teachers Who Want to Use Online or Blended Learning

Oregon Virtual School District 

A state funded organization that is a free resource for online teaching and learning designed to promote the use of technology in Oregon classrooms. ORVSD offers public school educators the opportunity to find and share online resources, learn and use cutting edge online tools, and discuss how to put them to use in the classroom. Teachers who get an account have access to courses from National Resources of Online Courses (NROC) including AP courses. There are also full courses and units created by teachers. These are free and open to Oregon educators.

Khan Academy: Over 2400 videos of math, science, and humanities lessons.

Open Educational Resources  OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons provides a library and knowledge base for the search and discovery of open educational resources. Created with and for educators, students, and self-learners, OER Commons provides useful classroom materials that help students engage with rigorous subject matter. There are videos, primary source documents, full textbooks, courses, and lessons with resources that can supplement a class or provide content for an online class. As a network for teaching and learning materials, OER Commons offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, reviewing, and online professional development to use the OERs. OER Commons houses more than 32,000 free and openly-licensed resources. 

A free platform for 21st century teachers and students. It is a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and creating content. The comprehensive lesson plans made from interactive web materials bring the classroom to life.

 ck12 FlexBook:   Thi a free platform for 21st century teachers and students and is customizable, free, curriculum-aligned content.  There are student editions and teacher editions. It is a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and creating content. The comprehensive lesson plans made from interactive web materials bring the classroom to life. This is customizable, free, curriculum-aligned content. Teachers can create their own book for students. There are student editions and teacher editions. Most of the current content is secondary. It includes SAT Prep material.

 Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

 

Learn Zillion: Many mini video math lessons by topic 

Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education 

 

This blog post is an overview for teachers by a teacher on how to move to a blended learning classroom. A ten-year teaching veteran and a California regional Teacher of the Year, Heather Wolpert-Gawron's musings on educational policy, curriculum design, and daily school life can also be read at www.tweenteacher.com .