This past semester I have had the privilege of being a pilot
teacher for a new online platform for teachers and students by KQED. KQED Learn
is a safe, online learning site for student-driven inquiry and collaboration
across classrooms, communities and regions. KQED Learn was created to connect
students in an online forum to use community sourcing to investigate questions,
evaluate sources, and share one’s findings. 
It is a project and student publishing platform.  I was one of 45 teachers from across the Bay
Area that had a role in developing and refining the platform and its curriculum
and resources.  The platform will launch
publicly later this year. (I apologize for not having screen shots to be able
to share at this time.  The website is
offline until it is launched publicly). I also have found the KQED online community a wonderful resource for teachers.  I had no idea the quality of content that they provide.  Check it out! 

What I am so excited about is the ability for students to collaborate
across schools in a safe online forum. As a teacher you can post an
investigation (question) and students have the ability to post sources that
they find and other students can comment and rank each source.  My students found this incredibly
helpful.  They were challenged to post
sources that they felt were credible and that other students would be impressed
by and that they would want to use.  I
found my students used much more legitimate sources because of the peer
observation piece. 

I have to share another creation of KQED that I find
amazing.  There is a team of young film
makers and journalists that are creating a series of web videos called Above the Noise.   They
range in topics from global warming, gerrymandering, genetic engineering, 3D
printing of guns, internet trolls and much more.  I highly suggest you checkout their library
of videos on their youtube channel.