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Blog connected with ISTE, lots of great blog entries that look at real application of integrating technology into the classroom.

ISTE 2012 Movie Project Workshop

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is the premier nonprofit organization serving educators and education leaders committed to empowering connected learners in a connected world. ISTE serves more than 100,000 education stakeholders throughout the world. The vision of ISTE is a world where all learners thrive, achieve and contribute.

ISTE has compiled personalized learning tools for all students, particularly those students with diverse and adaptive learning styles. ISTE explains the highlighted tools and explains why they have included them in the article. Each tool has a link to take readers to the tool for use and/or purchase.

This session from the 2013 ISTE Conference shows how "social media like Skype, Twitter and having students write their own blogs can be used to get in contact with students and teachers from other parts of the world."

Great article. It probably is a little too much on the practical side for the first assignment but the examples are great and really useful.

I think that having students blog can be a great tool in allowing them to express what they've learned and to connect them to others around the world. Thanks for contributing the paper. I would agree with Richard Krause that it does seem more about application than theory.

Includes lessons aligned to ISTE standards

This was an interesting article I found on the ISTE site where two educators provide two different points of view about whether teachers should have a professional social media presence. One writer say that teachers should absolutely have a social media presence so they can be models for their students while also broadening their own professional learning network. The other writer recognizes the amazing benefits of having a professional social media presence but also says that teacher's should not be required but rather educated in the benefits of social media for themselves and their students. This is a great article for looking at both sides of the social media presence coin and will lead to some good thinking on this topic of connectivism and professional learning networks online.

Jake, great resource! I often find that items that are mandated see more pushback from teachers even if the mandate is helpful. I think offering opportunities for teachers to learn and engage in social media will help build the grassroots movement and it will inevitably catch on.

This is a link to a PDF of a paper that supports the theory that connectivism leads to a new conception of learning in which formal, non-formal, and informal learning should all be integrated to build lifelong learning activities in a "personal learning environment".

Standards for teachers to follow as performance indicators for implementing, designing, and assesing learning experiences using digital technology.

35 full length lectures from ISTE seminars.

This site has the NETS for teachers, students, and administrators. It also has resources, professional development, and research

The new development for educational technology.  I became a member here since their goal is to improve learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and higher education.