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Jill Florant's Personal Learning Network
Key Resources

K12: Higher Education: Corporate, Government, Military, Religious Education: K12: Higher Education: Open Content : Open Educational Content initiative [nps] Corporate, Government, Military, Religious Education:
 * Industry Blogs**
 * NCTE - National Council of English Teachers, Secondary blog
 * WestEd "Schools Moving Up" - Webinars focused on various aspects of school improvement
 * What Works Clearinghouse - - Institute of Education Sciences website, "A central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education."
 * Classroom 2.0 Website- Social network of educators interested in Web 2.0, great source for frequent educational thought leader webinars, relatively non-commercial
 * [|NSTA blog] - National Science Teachers Association. Tips, resources and solutions.
 * Stanford School of Education Website- - Nice source for research and local events
 * Bible Gateway - Online Bible
 * Bible Study Fellowship International - Outstanding in person bible study, located all over US and the world, non-denominational
 * **[|TechCrunch.com]**: Technology news
 * **[|Alltop.com]**: Guy Kawasaki's blog with the latest info on social media trends
 * Individual Blogs**
 * Innovative Educator - thoughts on teaching; info on programs, workshops, activities, etc.
 * Bill McCallum's Blog on Common Core Standards
 * Larry Cuban Blog - Frequent, well-constructed posts on issues in K12 education, frequent references to impact of technology
 * Thoughts on Public Education "Top-Ed" - Frequently updated videos and commentary on issues related to CA educational topics
 * @http://weblogg-ed.com/ This is the Blog of Will Richardson. An Educator and education system reformer that I have been following for a while. He is also the co-author of a book on Personal Learning Networks coming out in May.

K12: Higher Education: Corporate, Government, Military:
 * Facebook Groups & Places**
 * Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative -

K12: Higher Education: Corporate, Government, Military:
 * RSS Feeds/News Agents**

General:
 * Professional Communities**
 * Social Learning Community : Jane Hart and crew in a more segmented online community (launched Feb 2011) [nps]

K12:
 * California Math Council- Best regional conferences for math educators, very trusted community

Higher Education: Corporate, Government, Military:
 * Personal Communities**
 * Pepperdine ETUG (Educational Technologies Users Group) - collection of professors, IT personnel, and other staff who meet monthly to discuss use of educational technology at Pepperdine (jwe)
 * Pepperdine Educational Technology Support Team - sub-team under the Technology and Learning group that work on Sakai issues, patch tests, release tests, etc.

K12: Corporate, Government, Military:
 * Formal & Informal Learning Courses**
 * Khan Academy
 * Fountain Blue - Silicon Valley based networking organization with membership fee and monthly speakers and events
 * MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Silicon Valley based networking group focused on entrepreneurship, monthly events