Thursday Links List

Here are some recent links related to education, technology, and ministry which I have discovered:

• Eight Ways to Be Innovative (Even When You're Not): We all can be innovative educators, and we need to be more than ever before. Here are some practical suggestions for innovation.
• Online Learning: Most Authentic Resources on the Web to Learn From: Long list of resources that enable anyone of us (students as well) to be life-long learners. Includes links to many MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses, many sponsored by existing universities) as well as practical learning tools.
• 30 Suprising (And Controversial) Ways Students Learn: A provocative article which would be interesting to use as part of a larger discussion of learning and education.
• Online Guides for Flipping the Classroom: Here are some practical resources for changing the structure of education in your classroom or school.
• Become a Tech Savvy Teacher by 2014: Self-explanatory!
• What Project-Based Learning Is -- and What it Isn't!: Accessible explanation of project-based learning and its benefits. Contains several specific and practical examples of this learning model.
• Collection of free training resources for Windows, Office, Google Apps, and more
• Creative Commons Infographic: Licenses Explained: If you are not teaching about Creative Commons as a part of a larger discussion of copyright and fair use with your students, you should be!