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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.

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.

Provides a space for students to gather to learn and to "think publicly" about Biology.

Science students use blogs to reflect and share their research. They commented on each others' blogs and provided feedback. The students found this to be a valuable experience.

As the name implies, this Twitter account allows students to ask questions and receive answers via Twitter.

This is a classroom teacher's blog that she and students contribute to throughout the year.  This is an example of making the work students do more authentic by giving them a real audience in the world.

Connectivism vimeo that seems to sum up connectivism into it's major points and areas of application as they pertain to education. Seems to be an excellent culmination... putting a cherry on top if you will of my Connectivism materials search.

Inspiring and awesome. I have been in a classroom for 16 years and feel such new energy in this connected world. Bringing it to my day to day teaching is challenging, but I am trying. With learning becoming 'personal' as it says, where do things that are deemed universally needed (language use, basic math skills) fit into the puzzle? Bigger question- is there any need for a Biology teacher (that's me)? I suppose there is, just not for every student. Exciting to think of how a class of passionate Biology learners would run.

science resources for grade levels 6 and up

A unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.

Resources for all sciences

Includes links to valuable classroom websites for General Science, Physics & Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental & Earth Sciences, Space Science - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Medicine & Nanoscience, and iPad Apps.

This video uses a great metaphor of Rhizomes for learning. It is described as an uncontrollable pattern. It asserts that learning needs to make connections outside of the normal entities. For instance, there have been biology studies that have reached over into the realm of engineering. Although these are two separate subjects, it increases more lines of connection and hence more knowledge. This video also describes the ecology of learning and that connectivism acts as a tool that will continually adapt, change and move along with the flow of information.

My Doctor Games has some very cool interactive simulations and games for students to extend their experience with.

Tutorials and simulations

An online learning environment based around GBL!

An evolutional biology teacher at the University of Connecticut is requiring student use of Twitter. The instructor has students using Twitter to post incidences of interesting bird behavior.