http://www.classroom20.com/

This website offers resources for educators using web 2.0, social media, and other online educational resources.

http://edupln.ning.com/

This website is a resource for educator's using PLNs. Content for research and study is readily available and frequently updated. This site offers a community of educators and many ways to communicate with them.

http://www.aupress.ca/books/120177/ebook/99Z_Veletsianos_2010-Emerging_Technologies_in_Distance_Education.pdf

This book deals with distance education. In part 3, chapter 9, page 177, it specifically explores personal learning environments. The history PLE is examined as well as its use, purpose, some examples, objections and barrier to PLEs, and their place in the future.

http://www.tobincls.com/learningnetwork.htm

This website offers a four staging model on how to create your own personal learning network.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07294360.2013.832168#.U6its41dVfk

This resource is a recent article (24 oct 2013) that deals with a study conducted at four Australian institutions seeking to determine their effectiveness of using a community of practice approach. This article is interesting because of the findings they had of what made it work.

http://elsci.coe.nau.edu/docs/communitiesofpractice.doc

This resource links to a document written by Jeffrey W. Bloom that explores communities of practice with a model demonstrating how a professional community of teachers can interact and feel a part of the community.

http://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/eckert2006.pdf

This resource is an article that will appear in the encyclopedia of language and linguistics. It provides an impressive overview and argument for the use of Communities of practice.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18146627.2013.853567#.U6iv5Y1dVfk

This article deals with how teachers handle educational reforms. I found this article interesting because so much of the educational community is learning how to adapt to use of technological in the classroom finding ways to better help student connect to learning.

Rackley, R. & Viruru, R. (2014). Preparing Teachers for the BYOD Classroom. In M. Searson & M. Ochoa (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (pp. 2608-2613). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved June 23, 2014 from http://www.editlib.org/p/131181.

This article studies how to prepare teachers for the BYOD (bring your own device) classroom.

http://www.ingedewaard.net/papers/connectivism/2005_siemens_ALearningTheoryForTheDigitalAge.pdf
This resource explains the theory of Connectivism in the light of learning in the digital age.

This is an amazing resource! I love this learning format.

This is a great website/tool. I have used it since my undergrad days. Just put in the info and the type of citation style you would like and BOOM! it's cited! It's not perfect of course but makes the work a little easier.

http://www.citationmachine.net/