Try these painless ways to incorporate technology into your teaching day.

Hap Aziz, director of the School of Technology and Design at Rasmussen College, explores what he terms the "five key components" to approaching educational technology.

A list of different communities of educators for professional learning.

This article discusses the benefits of professional development and the correlation with student achievement.

How to guide on using Communities of Practice in higher education.

Guide that shows how other educators are using social media to grow their personal PLN's.

This gives you 10 reasons on how to jump start your Personal Learning Network. Great tips for a beginner like myself.

This report discusses the definition of Communities of Practice and also the benefits for teachers using social networking.

This article give 5 characteristics that set Communities of Practice apart from other social groups.

Gives you a better understanding of connectivism, and also has a video clip to watch to help you understand.

Great short clip that explains communities of practice for educators.

I am a huge fan of Pinterest so I thought I would check there first for more information on PLN's. I really had no prior knowledge of what PLN's were so I thought this was a great starting point. There are several websites about PLN's.

Pinterest is awesome, except for the fact that it is a total time sucker. At least I get some good ideas for my classroom and recipes for dinner from it. I also posted this link because it had quite a few websites that talked about PLN's. I'm new to PLN's but I am certainly learning a lot more about them this week.

I used this site frequently last year for taking my class on video conferences/virtual field trips. Some of the conferences charge a fee and some are free. You can search by grade and subject.