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Some excellent tools listed, and several that I haven't heard of before which sound promising!

A site where you can organize playlists from various web hosting sites such as Slideshare, youtube, etc.

Goes along with my last bookmark for the Wordle.net site. Other ideas to incorporate the easy-to-use website in the classroom.

WEMTA presentation

Great presentation design can be difficult to master because it requires the coordination of many elements, including colors, fonts, images, icons and background. While there are a lot of pieces to the presentation design puzzle, don't be overwhelmed. Let the design principle of "less is more" guide your presentation design choices to keep your slides uncluttered.

Slides form GLOBALEDCON 2016

Informative, causes one to reflect about the changing nature of education and how to expand education beyond the four walls

This project also has students making a Facebook account for their character and using these accounts to communicate with other students. This is similar to the remixing assignment, but it is a long-term assignment rather than a culminating activity. Students start by making a Facebook page for their character and post status updates as the class reads the book. They talk from the perspective of their character and it allows students to expand their thinking. When students are done, they use their page to have discussions about the novel as a class and out of character. This is a great way for students to step into the chose of different characters they are reading about and has students participate in multi-level writing. This is applicable to numerous different reading projects and something I could see myself using in my English class.

This powerpoint describes connectivism, gives resources and also shows the pros and cons based on the information at the time.

Slides by researcher Stephen Downes provide some basic elements of connectivism. Included is an analysis of VLE (virtual learning environments using LMS) vs. PLE (personal learning environments) and the types of knowledge these promote. Also addressed is personal vs. social knowledge, collaboration vs. cooperation, and network design principles. Especially interesting here is the VLE vs PLE analysis.

Kim, Thank you for sharing! I liked the visuals throughout the slide show!

Mr Downes makes thought provoking distinctions between a number of concepts (e.g.VLE and a PLE, personal vs social knowledge, and cooperation vs collaboration). Thanks for sharing.