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A brief article with three tips on how to integrate technology for ELL students

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In this article, Warlick explains how to grow your personal learning network in order to avoid information overload. He gives great tips on how to aggregate information that comes to you, instead of spending all of your time trying to find information. He also gives tips on how to cultivate your network.

This is a helpful article that gives instructors some ideas for incorporating videos in the classroom. It describes ideas on how to use videos to expose students to foreign concepts, create student projects, and for teachers to use as a learning tool.

Howard Rheingold gives 8 excellent tips about growing a personal learning network. Explore, search, follow, tune, feed, engage, enquire and respond.

Howard Rheingold (hope some of you know who he is and follow him on Twitter) writes this useful post on how to get the most out of your PLN. The key is to be active and share.

This is a great resource. I think the information is important to remember and the tips seem simple and effective. I also started following him on Twitter because of your recommendation.

Personal Learning Networks are nothing new, they have been around since the beginning of civilization. This article highlights how communication technology enables the expansion of your learning networks without going into overload.

This is an excellent guide for someone seeking to create and develop his or her PLN. In addition to development tips, the article provides management strategies that could be useful for someone planning a PLN.

This article describes the three main types of personal learning networks: (1) Personally maintained synchronous connections; (2) Personally and socially maintained semi-synchronous connections; and (3) Dynamically maintained asynchronous connections. The importance of social media in a PLN and lifelong learning are stressed in the article. It also give tips on how to create and manage your own personal learning network.

Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Presentations

This webpage is perfect for my second grade families.

A teacher brought in two experts via Google Hangout to meet with some students working in a computer gaming program. The students were able to takeaway tips from the experts for their programming and connect with "real" designers.

Science has its own rules for what makes good writing and this page from the Writing Center at University of North Carolina has some great tips on how to write effectively in science

This website is the educators best friend by offering tips and articles on lesson plans, PD's, tech integration and much more.

One of the most important benefits of conducting a program evaluation is using your findings to improve services, motivate staff, or even to change public policy. This tip sheet focuses on ways to use your results to improve services.

This site offers a step by step guide for students learning how to research. It is an interactive website that gives students direct tips for each step of the research process.