Digital learning is a great equalizer that crosses all boundaries from demographics, social and economic levels and abilities.

10 Free Online Surveys

Funding is an issue for many administrators. Why not use open source and free web based tools whenever possible?

Here are 10 sites for creating surveys:

Struffa: Contests, polls that can be moderated before publishing

Rubpolis: Create a poll by dragging and dropping

Flisti: Share your poll in a social network such as Facebook or MySpace

Obsurvey: Survey that works like a wiki

Survey Monkey: Comprehensive online site for creating surveys

PollDaddy: Can be integrated into mobile devices

Vorbeo: Embeddable onto your website or blog

Text the Mob: Good for large audiences can be used with mobile devices

Insightify: Great for collaboration

Yarp: Good for simple surveys. Generates unique url.

Tech and Learning magazine September 2010 issue.

Wifitti

Wifitti creates screens that allow you to display messages from many feeds, pulls info with specific tags and allows contributors to comment via text.

The Connected Principal

It is important for leaders, especially school principals, to share their knowledge around 21st Century learning and how to transform their schools into collaborative spaces that used technology integration as a seamless tool. George Couros, a 21st century principal, created a blog where principals can share best practices, trials and tribulations, technology integration and more. Take a look at the Connected Principal http://www.connectedprincipals.com/

Graphic Novels

Here's an interesting post on how Comic Life is being used to create graphic novels.