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Learning Networks in Practice paper by Stephen Downes regarding personal learning environments, learning in communities, content creation and context.

This article talks about the beginning of the PLN movement in education. It discusses how a good PLN makes use of the WEB 2.0 applications that are out in cyberspace.

An exploration of Web2.0 tools on Discovery Education

This is an interactive website that teaches students: financial, civic, digital, and substance abuse prevention education.

Here is the link to my Google Docs for my EDTECH 543 Top Ten Digital Footprint assignment.

An interesting web tool that lets you create an audio- narrated digital story

As the name implies, this Twitter account allows students to ask questions and receive answers via Twitter.

Real Estate Youtube channel brings relevant real estate information to buyers and sellers through video.

This is a classroom teacher's blog that she and students contribute to throughout the year.  This is an example of making the work students do more authentic by giving them a real audience in the world.

iEarn is a global project that connect students and teachers through a variety of projects that cover a spectrum of the curriculum.  One of the chief goals is to allow communication and development of understanding of other cultures.

Real estate repository of property information, tips & tricks, as well as moving information compiled for buyers and sellers in a culminating Pinterest page.

Interesting read on how to use Social Media to advance online training programs. Excellent resources on how to improve training systems through social media.

Very cool! I never thought of this as a community of practice. I use this everyday for conferencing with my colleges. We come together through this technology to share resources, plan and organize, and to develop strategies. So, of course this is a great example. Thank you for sharing!

" Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students "

This study looked at how Twitter-using educators were using Twitter to collaborate, network, or engage in professional development

Molly, I really enjoyed this article. It is especially relevant with this course. Honestly, I could never image using Twitter as any kind of professional resource, but after reading this and using Twitter for this class and one other, I can see how it would benefit educator to collaborate. It is also very easy to use. Thank you for sharing this article!

Hi Molly, This is very appropriate for our class, especially since we are using Twitter to share articles and resources with each other - - in our own personal learning environment. I focused on the discussion portion of this article. I noticed that for educators, personal learning networks are important and useful for professional development. It was interesting that the study found greater use in high school environments (maybe because we are influenced by our students?). The benefits of Twitter and professional development, is that one can access and participate at any time and any location - - it is self-directed! I would be interested in finding out how to promote this type of professional development within a school. What type of training is needed for educators to get started? How would one track satisfaction and learning?

Discusses the origin of the concep to PLN's and how they morphed from PLE's to PLN's. Enforces the importance of learning a variety of web based applictions to create PLN's.

I found the diagram useful as well. I found the comparison of PLNs to ecosystem most interesting piece in this article. It provided with a valuable visual. #EdTechSN

The analogy to the gardener's ecosystem was very useful to help understand the concept.

This interesting article about PLNs talks about the teaching strategy that says we are in a write/read culture and PLNs are a way of allowing students to be published on the web. He says that by allowing students to publish to the web even when their work is lacking, exposes them to other posts that are better and clearer than theirs. This will encourage them and give them more incentive to improve their own work. It is a good theory.

Using social bookmarking search tools, I found this group from a couple of years ago collecting resources on collectivism. While there are some excellent resources posted, this is also a reminder of a different way to use Diigo to search for resources :)