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A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an online course that has open access and interactive participation by means of the Web. Introduction to Cyber Security by The Open University This online course will help you understand online security and protect your digital life, whether at home or work. Guided by Cory Doctorow, you will learn how to recognise threats that could harm you online and take steps to reduce the chances that they happen to you. The course will frame your online safety in the context of the wider world, introducing concepts like malware, viruses, trojans, network security, cryptography, identity theft and risk management. *You can find a wide range of online courses of different categories in Future Learn.

Glogster Edu is a creative online learning platform where students can express themselves and show their knowledge. A glog is a multimedia digital poster where children can  embed text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings hyperlinks, animation, documents. Click to get ideas to start using Gloster!

Padlet   is an interactive noticeboard. It is tool that allows learners to collaborate online and share images, links, documents, videos and voice recordings. And it’s free!  It can be used to connect students (and also teachers) to other grade levels, schools and communities. Click to find out some ideas !

Liveworksheets allows teachers to transform the traditional printable worksheets (doc, pdf, jpg) into interactive online exercises with self-correction. Students can do the worksheets online and send their answers to the teacher. This is motivating for students. Besides, it saves time of teachers and it is ecological (save papers). The interactive worksheets take full advantage of the new technologies applied to education: they may include sounds, videos, drag and drop exercises, join with arrows, multiple choice. Moreover, there are speaking exercises  that the students can complete using a microphone.

The purpose of this site  is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms. Author: Richard Byrne        A former high school social studies teacher. He taught for eight and a half years at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in South Paris, ME. During that time he piloted 1:1 laptop use before the program went school-wide. He coordinated a "laptop squad" to support teachers' use of laptops in their classrooms. 

The SAMR Model is a framework created by Dr. Ruben Puentedura that categorizes four different degrees of classroom technology integration. It was created to share a common language across disciplines as teachers strive to help students visualize complex concepts.

It is an educational platform , social and free, that allows virtual communication between teachers and students. It works as a social network, where you can exchange information, messages, files, calendars, and schedule activities. Students' parents can also participate.