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At Syracuse University School of Information Studies social media is used to create space that replicates real world learning, and brings the real world into classroom in real time. Students also benefit from sharing resources

Social media in the university classroom used in order to mirror the real world in classroom discussion

" Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students "

Views connectivism as a learning theory. Lists the 6 key skills that educators today should posses. These skills are: technical competence, experimentation of teaching methods, provide learners with autonomy, engage in creation, play and explore big ideas as well as capacity for complexity.

Author Sam Gist defines connectivism and explores some of the possible challenges that educators may face in adapting to this into their classrooms. He also highlights skills that may help educators embrace connectivist principles.

Faculty eCommons is a nice resource for educators incorporating social network learning within the classroom. This specific page adresses connectivsim; its meaning and use as well as connectivist pedagogies.

What is the flipped classroom? A reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive, teacher-created videos and moves "homework" to the classroom. Moving lectures outside of the classroom allows teachers to spend more 1:1 time with each student.

This slide show presents meaningful ways for using various Google Apps in the classroom in order to increase efficiency, collaboration, and engagement.

This slide show presents meaningful ways for using various Google Apps in the classroom in order to increase efficiency, collaboration, and engagement.

Lists and describes different reasons for using multimedia in the classroom.

Provides an example of a teacher using blogs, before blogs were commonly used as a classroom tool. The teacher had the students take their blogs and morph them in to online portfolios. The teacher published an eBook talking about the successes.

A site full of success stories using Skype in the classroom. If you wonder if it is successful just look at the faces of the kids in video "Skype in the classroom-Tony Bates" the fourth one over.

This blog post does not simply apply to the gifted classroom. Connectivism can be used to benefit any classroom and group of learners.

Siemens video explaining his experience with Connectivism is very interesting. Explaining the qualities of connectivist teachers was also interesting and made some great connections between gifted and regular classrooms.

This site has online video websites as well as ways to integrate videos into the classroom.

Though a few years old, this is still an excellent article talking about the use of video in the classroom as a learning tool.

An interesting article about reformatting the traditional classroom to incorporate Web 2.0 technology and considerations.

This website is an excellent resource for teachers who have a classroom set of iPad's or tablets. Many teachers have classroom tablets but do not know how to integrate them into the classroom. This website has a list of great apps to download for tablet use in classrooms. Students need to be engaged, challenged and be able to practice the skills learned. Using classroom tablets as a group/partner activity or individual use is a great way to incorporate technology into a lesson plan. High school students are a great age to use tablets with because they are more mature than elementary/middle school and (hopefully) will respect the technology devices.

This article points out ten reason why teachers should use multimedia in the classroom.

These are some great ideas for using Twitter in the English classroom. In particular, I like using Twitter to build vocabulary, debate an issue or book interpretation, write a book review, or for short grammar exercises

HS Language Arts teacher uses Prezi to tell about using Edmodo in the classroom.

Dr. Steven Yuen presents on the use of Diigo in classrooms. Notably, faculty members can use Diigo to comment and provide feedback on sticky notes that students have made in Diigo, on both their research and projects.

This blog gives several example of Facebook used successfully in the classroom. It is used for a variety of age levels.

This article provides an overview of 5 free ipad appps to use in the classroom.

This video shows how Canadian teacher Curtis Wagner uses social media to connect students around the world to work on classroom projects.