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This article from EdSurge offers a look at how tech can help students improve skills that are integral to an ELA classroom.

This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles

This article offers 10 ideas to integrate social studies with ELA and reading. Small, simple ideas from lesson plan tweaks to adding books to libraries to integrate social studies into ELA.

2Lingual is a ELL/ESL Learner friendly search tool powered by Google. It allows learners to search for articles in both English and a language of their choice from a drop-down list of many languages.

This article talks about the technology tools teachers could use to support language arts instruction.

HS English teacher's lesson plan that embraces social media for the English classroom.

One teacher's reflections of how she has come to use technology in her ELA classroom. This includes collaborations such as wikis.

Great wiki on the advantages of technology integration and issues and problems that arise because of technology.

This Facebook project could be used for a Science, History, Geography, Foreign Language, Math, or English class. The idea is for the students to create a Facebook page but for something they might be learning about. It is a fun and innovative way for the students to look up facts and represent them in a way that they can relate to.

Teachers from many different subjects have joined together for this project, having students create Facebook pages for a topic or character relating to their subject. Students get to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts being explored by incorporating such a popular type of social media.

I love this site, It is a quick reference for a lot of accurate material.

I am married to a gamer. This is seriously unique and incredible. It is a twist on the social media "norm", but it still fits because I had forgotten that there are RPGs (role-playing-games) that allow conversation and collaboration amongst players. This is a great idea!

Simple steps to follow when teaching ELL students

This paper looks at the patterns that emerge in the use of Personal Learning Networks. It tries to define language that is useful in considering these patterns.

I found this visual to be an interesting model of what happens below the surface in a collaborative setting. Networking and building up a PLN certainly seem to be core activities, but as Berg mentions, it's often not recognized or valued.

I like how this source provided a unique way to look at collaboration. Collaboration is a skill that I am always trying to instill in my students. I also enjoyed that they included the graphic to help the reader understand the concept as well.

Renee, I appreciate you including this blog post with our Diigo collection of resources. This idea of the iceberg makes so much sense. It remembers me a lot of research surrounding language learning as well. There is so much below the surface that is hard to articulate or appreciate. This visual will be very helpful as I work with my teachers and admin next year. It is important that professionals understand that within PLNs there is a lot that happens that cannot be seen, yet it is these powerful connections and interactions that will most effective a teacher's practice

In this scholarly article, Bessenyei discusses the current desire in education to decrease the alienation of traditional schools. He looks at connectivism and network theories as a way to decentralize learning into self-organizing networks. These networks allow information sharing to become more significant as students information sources are varied to include experts as well as other students from multiple institutions.

In this article the author discusses the importance of connectivism that is dependent upon learning in a web 2.0 platform. As the influence of the web has spread so to has the importance the ability to share and distribute information to people all over the world. The premise of this article is that as costs continue to soar in education the connectivism platform offers an alternative way to disseminate learning. The web is now no longer a medium for learning, it is the platform and center for personal learning. One final point that is made is the importance in educating students how to use the available online resources to construct learning for future use because as online resources and CoP's continue to be the primary sources for information it is important to understand how to use and identify these resources for continued learning.

Bessenyei takes an interesting look at the history of elearning as it relates to student learning requirements, societal norms and Connectivism today. The authors perspective on Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and the policital development of elearning provides the reader with a new lens to look at the variety of social media that is used today.

This is the Spanish teacher's go-to website for authentic language, music, and culture activities.

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Listen to foreign online radio news and information and practice a foreign language!