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1500 students across 11 school in the Northeast region of America came together to virtually celebrate acceptance of differences using Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" as their soundtrack. The scenes were/are broadcasted on YouTube to share with a larger audience and also document the work of these students - social media and education aligned!

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.

Students at the International School of Berne in Berne, Switzerland document their daily life and share out on this blog with fellow educators and community members. This blog aims to "chronicle student life."

Yudu allows the upload of PDF format documents and transforms them into published eBooks

A straightforward government-issued document on Communities of Practice that focuses on a variety of benefits for both organizations and individuals. Uses business at the working guide- not education- but the principles are the same. Very easy to comprehend document.

Thanks - I read this because it was not aimed at education which is where my interest tends to take me. I liked that there were examples with benefits but did find the description was probably a little narrow in stating that, ". .. who often collaborate via established Web sites. These community Web spaces are designed to allow community members to share ideas and knowledge in several ways" Enjoyed reading it though. Thanks.

The author of this article, Ilona Buchem, is a co-author of a PLE study titled Understanding Personal Learning Environments: Literature review and synthesis through the Activity Theory Lens. In the study the authors propose a framework they call the Activity Theory Triangle. The theory attempts to define the main dimensions of a PLE in order to study their impact.

The true impact of PLEs needs to be measured/documented/observed/shared in order to ensure their sustainability. Great image and important components of documentation are noted.

This is a great summary of some excellent Multimedia Principles for presentations from Harvard.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Site to make word "art". I have used this in the revision process for writers who are redundant in their word choice; the more frequently a word is entered, the larger it appears on the finished project. Students can copy and paste their document into the website for this effect.

I found this while doing research for my 541 project. Not all of these tools are digital, but there are plenty of good ideas that can be used here. This is worth a look.

This is a two page document outlining the Pros and Cons of social networking in the classroom. Part of this document points out the fact that we need administrators and parents to open up about social networking.

A breakdown of pros and cons regarding social media in the classroom.

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These videos have a short and long versions as well as an associated PDF document. The videos focus on teaching one topic and the class is other adult ESL learners. These videos would be good supplemental at home review videos for associated class topics.

This resources was created in Google Docs and focuses on how educators can integrate Drive into their classroom. The article looks as creating documents, folders, and comments, as well as the sharing and collaboration features within Drive.

Checklist for students to assess their curated libraries

Here is my plan for creating a positive, professional digital footprint and expanding my online presence in a beneficial way.

This study looked at how Twitter-using educators were using Twitter to collaborate, network, or engage in professional development

Molly, I really enjoyed this article. It is especially relevant with this course. Honestly, I could never image using Twitter as any kind of professional resource, but after reading this and using Twitter for this class and one other, I can see how it would benefit educator to collaborate. It is also very easy to use. Thank you for sharing this article!

Hi Molly, This is very appropriate for our class, especially since we are using Twitter to share articles and resources with each other - - in our own personal learning environment. I focused on the discussion portion of this article. I noticed that for educators, personal learning networks are important and useful for professional development. It was interesting that the study found greater use in high school environments (maybe because we are influenced by our students?). The benefits of Twitter and professional development, is that one can access and participate at any time and any location - - it is self-directed! I would be interested in finding out how to promote this type of professional development within a school. What type of training is needed for educators to get started? How would one track satisfaction and learning?