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Excellent example of using Edmodo, VoiceThread and Google tools in the general music classroom.

A Facebook group page was created and used as a mentoring tool for high school science students and university students. Facebook increased communication and engagement between mentors and mentees. Questions were asked and support was provided through the page.

This is actually a blog that shows what Kim Cofino has been able to do internationally with student collaborations and student- produced projects that involve social media or other web 2.0 tools.

Focus on e-reading, ocr units/software.

Lots of tools for creating a PLE, as well as all things PLE. *note - this is info from the 2010 PLE World Conference

The Activity Theory model breaks down PLE's into subject, object, tools, rules, community and division of labour.Context is not an external container but it is constituted through an activity.The most common context for PLE's takes place through Higher Education (31%) and Lifelong Learning (15%), followed by enterprise,organisations and workplace (9% each).

This paper included many diagrams documenting personal learning environments. The PLE is broken down into six distinctive parts. The subject is the person with the object leading the subject to the outcome. Tools connect the subject and object within a community where the subject acquires knowledge. Rules are present to minimize conflict and help to guide the subject toward the object and possibly most importantly, the PLE has a division of labor. This is how the community is organized and includes contributions from all subjects. Without any one of these parts, the PLE would not function which would lead to the loss of knowledge within a community of practice.

A helpful--if lengthy--article explaining what a PLE is, and how to conceptualize the structure and role of a PLE in terms of Activity Theory. Helpful section distinguishing PLEs, PLNs, and CoPs on p. 24.

In this article, Duke, Harper, and Johnston extend the explanation of connectivism penned by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. Their argument states that connectivism, even though it is a critical tool that should be used in the learning process in order to bridge the gap that exists between behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism in the 21st century, it is not a learning theory that can stand on its own.

The section, "Why Connectivism is a new learning theory for a digital age," provided a great explanation of how learning has changed in the last several years, and therefor education as well. The explanation that, "concepts can be viewed much like a mind map... rather than as a linear progression of ideas" really stuck out to me. I tend to be a linear thinker and my school struggles with very traditional knowledge dissemination. Thinking about concepts in this way is giving me a better idea of Connectivism.

This site has online video websites as well as ways to integrate videos into the classroom.

Though a few years old, this is still an excellent article talking about the use of video in the classroom as a learning tool.

Great site which provides a wide range of information and tools to integrate technology into the curriculum starting from instructional software to the Internet

This is also a great alternative to the mundane presentation. A glog can consist of text/images/multimedia, which is included in a "virtual poster" in order to make the entire glog interactive. This can also be easily embedded into websites and blogs. Teachers have access to extra features that are enhanced for educational purposes.

Great interactive poster creation tool!

Wonderful tool to create rubrics for assessment.

This link will take you to a collaborative workspace that is intended to create a compilation of what technologies we should be monitoring today for creating instructional materials for tomorrow's students.

a toolbox for learning professions

This is a great list of online (and free tools). Nice find/resource list!

CinePaint is a deep paint tool that's used for retouching movies, not a movie editor like Avid or Final Cut Pro.