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Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 30 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life. This can be used with classes to post their work and upload their vlogs or published pieces.

Part of a LibGuide from the University of Pittsburgh, this page discusses online tools and technology ideas that can be used to teach information literacy to college students.

This was a very interesting read, which highlights several issues related to copyright...some things I had not even considered with consideration to online digital tools.

This paid website has an online library of simulations to be used in math and science. For each simulations there are lesson plans, students exploration worksheets, and other material.

This resource contains several math a science simulations that students can use. This resource is free to teachers and can be used to promote cross curricular learning for math and science. There are simulations as well as research for teachers to read through.

Glogster is a cloud-based service for creating presentations and other visual projects. It allows the user to make digital poster boards with different images and videos that can be embedded into the canvas. This allows students and teachers to create an interactive learning experience.

This website contains a vast library of educational videos that are designed to teach students about various topics in the world of math, science and computers. The videos are accompanied with practice problems for learners to go through after each video to assess their learning.

This article explains how Online Multiplayer Games are the new model for communities of practice and how we as teachers should incorporate technology into our classrooms to utilize this networking capability.

MMOGs are a very interesting phenomenon to me. I took Dr. Haskell's GameBased learning course last semester. What a great way to engage students within COP and PLN.

School culture is an important ingredient in successful tech integration.

Great resource for online learning and blended options!

A wide variety of science topics covered with short games for students.

Upon doing my research for CoP I stumbled across this site that stresses the right way to effectively use technology for online communities of practice. It emphasizes that many CoP's can lose their purpose by metamorphosing into something entirely different than what was originally intended.

This article summarizes a study aimed at explaining collective behavior on social networking platforms through intentional social action, which is known as the We-Intention theory. The study focused on Facebook in particular, because it is widely popular among university students and could, thus, illustrate social media's impact on students' motivation to learn via virtual communities. In the article, the We-Intention theory is driven by social influence factors, social presence, and elements of the uses and gratifications (U&G) model. U&G, as defined in the article, explains why individuals gravitate toward certain digital media over others. U&G assumes individuals are both goal-directed and aware of their needs, listed as purposive value, self-discovery, entertainment, social enhancement, and maintenance of interpersonal connectivity. The study identified two U&G needs, entertainment and interpersonal connectivity, as significantly determining intentional social action under the We-Intention theory.

That article is very interesting stating that most use Facebook for instant communication and connection. The need for instant gratification. Joining too many groups or trying to connect to too many people does make it hard to have a specific connection to one group. May be the reason that people post so many random topics and photos.

Interesting perspective on Facebook from the point of view of students using the platform.Since most of my background is from K-12 education, I have not witnessed teachers using the platform with their students. I have found that most K-12 teachers use Facebook to communicate with parents. It does seem to have a similar impact on getting parents motivated and active in class activities. Most parents use Facebook and once they know they can follow their child's teacher and get updates via the social media app, parents tend to do so

I love this website! I was originally hired as a cataloger and now I do reference and instruction. I spend 90% of my day teaching and I have never been taught how to teach. We didn't have classes on how to do library instruction in my library science program. What I usually do is come up with some ideas of what I want to do and then I search the freely available resources on CORA to see if anyone has perfected what I am thinking of doing in the classroom. It's a great resource for those who are starting out in the reference and instruction arena!