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Another option that allows students to use any device with an Internet connection to respond to questions and polls from the teacher.

This article states, "Spreadsheet design is part art and part science. It involves not only technical expertise but also attention to aesthetics." I honestly never connected aesthetics to spreadsheets.... I found this to be an interesting read.

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

This is an excellent site for finding sources that connect mathematics and Excel.

Wood uses social media tools to connect with students around the world while on expeditions to places like Mount Everest and the South Pole

Pinterest has changed my life! From the way I search, cook, decorate, network, and especially the way I teach! Essentially, Pinterest is an online bulletin board. You can collect and share blog posts, pictures, recipes, etc. Connecting with so many different teachers and sharing ideas and resources has been the single most beneficial social networking tool to me.

An alliance of community college districts from around the country have started using social media with students in a targeted way. The goal of the project is to use social media with students to positively affect their degree persistence.

The goal of the ongoing project (started in 2009) is to connect each classroom with 80 other classrooms around the world via Skype. This could be used to foster content from any discipline. Students would blog about the experiences they have with their partner schools.

Mark Frydenberg, a lecturer at Bentley University, has a project were students collaborate on doing a presentation with other students in Romania. They use Facebook and Twitter to connect and YouTube to post videos that they create for the project.

Great online virtual field trip opportunities to museums connected to Art

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?

A video that defines a PLN and discusses the importance of them in an educational environment.

Cool resource! I didn't look into using videos as resources but I can see how this would have great value. This one starts out a little dramatic (especially with the music!) but is VERY informative! I also like how it uses other scholarly resources to validate the points of how using PLNs can be effective. Also, I appreciate the clear definition of PLNs

Several years after their pioneering connectivist MOOC (CCK08), Siemens and Downes moderated two additional MOOCs on PLEs (PLENK 2010) and Connectivism (CCK11). This article outlines the key connectivist activities underaken (aggregation, remixing, repurposing and feeding forward and participant reactions. I believe the title is about choosing between the "abundance" of a connectivist approach versus an alternate pedagogy that provides greater learner support and fosters greater social connection.

Exploration of connectivism and it's connections to other learning theories. Includes the idea that connectivism may be a significantly different kind of learning theory than behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism, and that it might be more of an anthropological learning theory. (Interesting!) Also includes discussion of the role of an educator in an connectivist learning environment, including different metaphors for teaching.

This article explores personal learning environments in detail. It first explains the theory of cognitivism and its limitations and then goes into learning networks as an alternative to this theory. When describing learning networks it first details what a network is and then tells of some of the characteristics which are good for learning and limitations of learning networks. Characteristics included learning resting in a diversity of opinions, learning as a collection of specialized nodes, and decision-making in itself being a learning process.