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My Digital Footprint Plan created for EDTECH 543.

This site has a variety of different EDTECH articles for professional development, I particularly found the different uses of twitter interesting.

I found this Prezi a great example of instructional technology for English language learners. Well done.

Boise State University's EdTech program uses Moodle as a social networking site in all of its classes. It allows students to share work and to comment on each others' work.

We understand teachers because we are teachers. At EdTechTeacher, we understand teachers because all of us have been in the classroom. Given our backgrounds, we recognize the challenge of pr...

This is a great website for all things Ed Tech. The sit is run by teachers, for teachers. It includes links to free edtech resources, webinars, tools and news. It is a really good space to find professional development opportunities as well.

Prior to entering the M.E.T. program at Boise State University I often used the Facebook to keep in touch with old friends and family, but never to advance my career as an elementary teacher.

This document is a research paper Beth Transue completed for EdTech 504 on Connectivism Theory and Information Literacy. It demonstrates the alignment between Connectivism principles and ACRL Information Literacy standards, and recommends that librarians consider Connectivism learning theory when creating information literacy instruction sessions.

Since I'm taking portfolio this fall, I thought I'd share my portfolio site.

This is great Angela! Wonderful set-up and site organization. You are inspiring me for my portfolio this spring! Thanks for sharing.

Tony Bates (my fav edtech guy) discusses connectivism and how it applies to teaching and online learning. Another great read. Anything by Tony Bates is quite amazing! EDTECH543 Connectivism

My struggle with pedagogies such as the nurturing approach is that I am torn between teaching my students according to the way the world is and the way the world should be. In the former, I believe my students are academically and emotionally prepared to learn in any environment. In the latter, I worry that my students won't be able to cope and compete in the real world. When I worked with at-risk youth, many of them fell behind when they started fourth grade after the "class size reduction subsidies" stopped, and they were put in classes with 50% more students. They were no longer able to get the specialized attention and they were not prepared for it.

One of the aspects that Bates talks about in regards to connectivism is that "There is no need for formal institutions to support this kind of learning, especially since such learning often depends heavily on social media readily available to all participants." I found this statement to be a bit rogue as he tries to state that learning will automatically occur through the use of social media. In identifying how connectivism works, there is still a need to help define the learning for students so that they are provided with the proper structure of information, sources, and how to identify good information. I would love to think that all students inherently want to learn, but truly think that students also need to be taught how to learn through this medium. Not all learning will occur naturally.

One of the first resources I found when starting my Edtech journey and when creating curriculum for an online course in social media marketing. Rheingold has been around a long time and experimenting with social media and emerging communication tech for himself. His "crap detection 101" course is useful for faculty and students.

includes apps for students and teachers

This resource offers excellent ideas and additional links from EdTech to integrate the use of videos into instruction.