This article hits on the issue that many teachers and administrators don't use social media because the students know more about it than they do. It scares them.

This is a neat guide prepared in the UK for how to use social networking in a classroom. It is neat to see another cultures perspective on the issue.

This article just makes a good argument for why social networking should be done in a classroom. With the emphasis on engagement, what a better way to engage them than to create a community outside the walls of the classroom.

This is fantastic. This principal has 12,000 twitter followers. He and his staff use Twitter and Facebook to communicate with parents and students.

This article is very interesting. It states that 70% of teachers in the US support the use of social media in the classroom. That is a stark contrast to what I see everyday where I work.

This article has great ideas and tips for implementing social media. For example, make a facebook page for your class. Don't friend students, instead make a page.

The Lore project is a LME that was created for use in a regular classroom. Designed to run something like twitter and moodle and facebook, it allows teachers to set up classes, moderate who joins, and add content. Students can help eachother and suddenly the classroom becomes a community.

This article discusses why social media belongs in the classroom. It gives many arguments as to why it should be taught in classrooms. I like this article.

This is a two page document outlining the Pros and Cons of social networking in the classroom. Part of this document points out the fact that we need administrators and parents to open up about social networking.

This site gives a good overview of how some teachers are using pinterest, facebook, and twitter in the classroom. As well as blogs and traditional email.

This article discusses PLN's and how they are fantastic for research and gathering information, but if we teach students how to incorporate blogs, and social networking into their PLN's the wealth of information available to them greatly increases.

This article contains a you tube video by Wendy Drexler discussing the connected student and the usage of Web 2.0 tools to create student PLN's

This you tube video discusses the importance of PLN's for the Educational Professional.

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.

This article from the University of Illinois describes in depth a PLN and discusses why teachers need to have one online. It also discuses getting your students to build their own.

This article discusses the National Educatioal Technology Plan and references where it calls for teacher to become connected. It asks them to become part of learning communities both locally and other wise using communities of practice.

George Siemens and Stephen Downs were offering a free course to the first 2200 people to discover connectivism and study its principals. They chose a free online course format to illustrate connectivism.

This article is actually a blog on connetivism. THe author of this post focuses on "sensemaking". He defines it as, Sensemaking is an activity that individuals engage in daily in response to uncertainty, complex topics, or in changing settings. Sensemaking is not about truth or right from wrong, bu rather about making information make sense.

This article draws comparisons between behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism and how they all relate to connectivism. Connectivism has come about with the age of technology, and has gradually become its own learning theory.