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Students from Ashwaubenon High School in Wisconsin created a video about the dangers of texting and driving and shared it with others by posting it on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The project helped to increase awareness of the dangers of texting and driving through social media that students are using everyday anyway.

This study delves into the formal and informal aspects of networks. It highlights the need for informal in a teachers' complex job, but the struggles with qualifying/managing the occurrence. It also speaks to administrations delicate roll as a "gate-keeper" or "barrier". Interesting read. 

Nice find Cassie. While the study is lengthy to read it is full of excellent information. I believe the ladder half of the text (discussion and key points sections) is where the most valuable information lies. I always appreciative objectivity and honesty, and the authors of this study were clear that networks aren't for everyone. Everyone is a unique and distinct learner so to blanket the idea of a network as something that is a "must" for effective professional development wouldn't be fair. Yet, it does acknowledge that from a team initiative perspective, networks are a blank canvas and platform for maintaining open communication so all parties involved grow.

Free text message reminders. Good for students with difficulty remembering to do homework.

This article explores three different types of learning theories as applied to distance education or learning, a non-traiditonal means of learning where students are not physically present in the classroom for instruction. While the paper discusses the cognitive-behaviourist and social constructivist theories in this learning model, it also highlights the connectivism approach. It is made known in the text that the connectivism theory caters to the constant evolvement of the act of learning as it functions on the premise of building understanding by making meaningful connections between networks of information. It is to be appreciated that this text points out the strengths and weaknesses of the theory. When applied, this theory can be a struggle for students as the theory is extremely individualized and relies on the student to act as the "central connector" in their own learning, often leaving students weary from the energy exerted and sometimes confused by a lack of structured guidance and the responsibility to take control of their own learning.

Click on the workers to learn more about their jobs: Veterinarian, Librarian, Pizza Maker, Utility Worker, Mayor, Police Officer, Firefighter, Pediatrician. For each, a series of pages includes text and images. Students can click on speaker icons to hear page text read aloud. Optional "test" questions can be answered at the end of each workers' section.

A middle school language arts educator shares his favorite digital tools for text and video annotations, teacher feedback, and formative assessment.

A middle school language arts educator shares his favorite digital tools for text and video annotations, teacher feedback, and formative assessment.

vozMe: From text to speech (speech synthesis). online tool that offers applications and services to convert text into speech. vozMe uses speech synthesis systems and technology to provide voice resources to any website or add speech synthesis to any web browser.

A high-quality unlimited TTS voice app that runs in your Chrome browser. Tool for creating voice from text or Google Drive file.

A free online automatic text summarization tool. Simply select a percentage to keep, and the original text will be accordingly shortened to reveal a summary.

Free web based Text To Speech (TTS) service. Convert online any English text into MP3 audio file. Useful for Universal Design for Learning.

VoiceThread is a collaborative multimedia slide show tool that supports voice, video, animated commenting, and several document formats.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting.

Presentations with added voice, video and text comments.

Speech to text software - good for students with physical or cognitive difficulties.

Hotseat was created by Purdue University to allow students to Twitter and text messages during and after class. The conclusion was that there was more interaction, more engaging, and resulted in higher-performing students.

Purdue University developed hotseat that integrates facebook, Twitter, and text. Alleviates nervousness of speaking up in class and allows students to feel more involved and like all views have an equal chance to be represented

This is a more atypical resource for our assignment but I felt that it was very appropriate for many of my K-12 peers. This text discusses the history of PLN and how educators must use PLN as a part of their learning tool kit today. Both authors are educators as well as business men who ofter a mix of experience in their attempt to convince you that PLNs are one of the major ways to captivate and engage students in the learning process.

Toolsuite for visualizing and exploring passages of text. Analyze any section of English text, including definitions, images, word frequency, etc.