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DSLR Camera simulator. I use it in my Photography class to help kids learn how to use the camera settings.

This website gives a list of technology and tools that will be useful in the world language classroom. These tools, however, can be used in many different classes!

Outlines what should be considered when creating a PowerPoint for a class.

This last year I have incorporated Wordpress within my curriculum throughout all of the classes that I teach. I consider this a part of Communities of Practice and a form of social networking within the classroom. It has helped my students become viable producers of technology than just consumers. This site discusses the best practices of Wordpress within a classroom. A good source of information.

2 5th grade classes in Germany use Skype to connect about culture and traditions as well as practice using social media in this capacity. They used Skype to communicate and also documented their learning using other technology.

8th grade students research current events and share their responses via their class wiki. This broadens their audience to their peers, thus impacting their own evaluation of their work and their peers' work.

Discusses how a teacher went from having students place phones in bucket, if they were caught using them in class to delivering lessons throgh YouTube. An example of using Vine for projects was described as very successful because students have to be succinct with their ideas.

Students take collaborative notes in Today's Meet. This way they get some of the things they may have missed and are able to ask clarifying questions. Students can use Today's Meet as a backchannel discussion for in class discussions, small group discussions, collaboration, etc, and then download the transcript as a more permanent record.

While there is also a closed group for members of the class, Douchy's Biology Podcast page is open to anyone wanting to learn biology. Students post questions and provide comments and feedback.

Diigo has clear advantages to the individual that needs to store and recall important information. But how can it be used in the classroom? This blog post shares a few options for using Diigo in the classroom. One common problem of student computer use in schools is access to student work from home. Using Diigo, students can bookmark important websites and access them from school, home, the library or any internet-connected computer. Students will always have access to this data. Teachers and students can use the group and list features of Diigo to organize bookmarks on themes or topics. Classes can also collaborate and discuss information within Diigo.

Teachers and students connect using websites such as Twitter to collaborate and discuss each month. There are many class projects shared on this blog.

This student project, related to science, utilizes Twitter and Google Earth. The teacher used their network on Twitter to provide challenging locations for students to locate in Google Earth. Once the class located the individual, they provided a tweet response. Neat way to show connectivism and networking!

A biology teacher created a blog for her classes, Extreme Biology. Students were given the freedom to post and began to include research related stories. They commented on each other and drew attention from other bloggers and communities. The blog now includes wikis, tweets, and other social networking tools.

Twitter is used as a way for students to ask questions and comment on content. Although this is in a college setting, this can be applied to a high school setting. A class can have a specific hashtag for asking questions or commenting on content.

This is an example of how a science department is using wikispaces to organize the curriculum for many of their classes. I was hoping to find teachers using wikispaces the way I was originally taught to use them- as a place for students to collaborate and build a wiki together. You can see what I wrote for an assignment, but I don't have any students with whom to use it: http://learningsciencealacarte.wikispaces.com/Biological_Molecules

Nancy Kaplan and Ananda Gunawardena write about the use of Classroom Salon, a social media network designed for collaboration in the higher education setting. They found that Classroom Salon was not effective in helping students in the chemistry class, but was in the biology class.

"By setting a limited word count with a focused theme and a guaranteed audience beyond the class teacher, children have far greater motivation for writing. Those who are reluctant writers feel safe with only 100 words to write, whilst those more advanced writers can really extend themselves with the word restriction."

This article provides another example of an actual case study attempting to implement a connectivist pedagogy in a smaller size ( to something else. For example, is a limited participant (closed) class automatically disqualified?