This is a great article that includes several examples of how teachers are using Social Networking in their classroom. It also discusses in detail how to effectively use social networking in the classroom.
This is a collection of teacher resource pages on Pintrest. It was organized by the creators of pintrest as a resource for teachers. This is a great example of how some teachers are using Pintrest to meet classroom needs.
Welcome to the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki. This wiki was started by Colette Cassinelli (http://twitter.com/ccassinelli) but because of contributors like YOU - it has grown to be comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups. The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.
The Flat Classroom® Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create students who are competitive and globally-minded.
ePals is for classroom teachers to create and participate in a variety of projects. This is a great site that connects teachers with other teachers from around the world to use social networking and create global learning environments.
This Skype project connects students and classrooms from around the world using video conferencing. It is free to sign up for and can connects classrooms based on subject, interests and age.
Although this specific project is older, it is still a great project that could be duplicated. This project uses Skype to connect classrooms around the world.
Project K-Nect is designed to create a supplemental resource for secondary at-risk students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common and popular technology - mobile smartphones.
This book was written by Stephen Downes. Although it is very lengthy, there are many visual representations of connectivity and portions of the book that are very informative. It is broken into chapters that stand independently allowing the reader to pick and choose what they need information on.
This article discusses the pedagogy and theory that is the foundation of connectivism. Discussed in detail is how connectivism impacts education in a 21sr century learning environment.
This blog is devoted to the role of connectivism in the current global culture. The focus of this blog is an interdisciplinary discussion on how connectivity and connectivism is affecting the global community.
This wiki describes the basic premise of connectivism. Included in the wiki is a table that compares major epistemological philosophies with connectivism.
Edutopia writer Vicki Davis discusses how PLNs have empowered her students to guide their own learning experiences. She discusses the weaknesses of PLNs and how they work.
This blog gives a very brief definition of a personal learning environment and then includes a video created by a seventh grade students that describes her personal learning environment.
This article reviews research on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teachers and PLC groups. Discusses principles of PLC and the implications of these groups in STEM classrooms.