You will work together with a team to research and experiment with various online services which might be utilized for developing a personal LMS.

Select a Topic Category: If you have not done so already, complete the Non-LMS Topic/Team Selection / Critical Friend Selection survey so that your instructor can place you in teams.

Team Topics & Categories:

Once a team has a topic category, you will meet to break up the work. How you do this is up to you. Teams can communicate in any way they wish. It is recommended that teams use their Collaborate classrooms for meetings to organize tasks, but organization can also occur in shared Google Docs or any means the teams can agree upon.

Example: The Assessment II folks might have one or two people looking into quizzing tools and services. Or, they might want to all research all of the topics in their category and come back together to share and compare.

Each person will find and review a few tools (See some links at the bottom of this page).

You will probably want to go beyond "traditional" research practices for your search. This is where you might want to begin using some of your professional learning community. One person might Tweet a request for resources while another searches their Diigo/Delicious groups for reviewed and recommended resources.

Scan the resources that have been added by previous students so that you do not repeat what has already been done.

Find one or two resources that should be considered.

When everybody is done, you will have several vetted resources for each of the category areas above.

Add your one or two resources to the Non-LMS Wiki.

Watch this video showing you how to add an item to the Non-LMS Wiki.

Remember to include:

• The resource name and link in bold,
• Your name,
• A visual assessment in the form of stars, and
• A description of the resource, pros and cons, uses, and an assessment of worth.

View the Wiki for examples of completed posts.

	Recommend that you use this resource if there is nothing else available. This resource is useful, but has several limitations or complexities that may make it's use somewhat difficult.
	High recommendation to use this resource, but with a few reservations due to complexity, limitations in robustness, or other hesitations you might have.
	Unreserved recommendation to use this resource. It is superfreaky good.

As you are well aware, the variety of tools available for your use in developing a set of services and resources you call your personal LMS is staggering. The links below are simply to get you started. If you are aware of other services that you feel match, or exceed, the following links in their scope, please email a link to your Instructor.

• OER Commons - A wealth of resources, including pieces and whole courses for you to utilize (Great video introducing Creative Commons).
• Don McIntosh's Document has some resources starting on page 113.
• CoolToolsForSchools has an impressive list of presentation resources.
• Merlot.org - Multimedia resources for learning and teaching online.

This set of lessons, icons, & criteria by Avi Luxenburg is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Leading2Learn.ca