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I love the visual that accompanies this one page text detailing the different modes of the CoP model. The definition of CoP that is found on most other resources is repeated here, but the CoP model is dissected and more is explained about the different elements.

Video shows different ways that tech is integrated in an elementary school classroom. Plans and rubrics that are linked on this page are good resources.

Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Presentations

An alliance of community college districts from around the country have started using social media with students in a targeted way. The goal of the project is to use social media with students to positively affect their degree persistence.

Students drew their monsters and wrote a description of them. Then, they skyped their monster exchange partner to share their description. As they shared their description, their partner would draw what they visualized. The projects turned out very nice! Check it out!

In Dominique Chargois's Spanish III classes, students interact with native Spanish speakers on Livemocha, a social network for learners of foreign languages. Chargois has used Livemocha Active Spanish as a supplemental learning tool in all of her Spanish III sections in order to engage students and inspire them to learn ad so they could work at their own pace. It also helps expand students' horizons by 'chatting' with individuals who live outside the U.S.

An entire page of success stories of using Skype in the classroom.

Skype Blog that has several success stories of using Skype in the classroom. Have a U.S. Senator speak in class over Skype, talk with mt climbers on Everest, special guest on Skype Classroom.

Here is a Facebook page for Skype! It offers great ideas of guest speakers and tours through Skype for successful projects in the classroom.

Item # 3 stood out for me.

The Stanford University Facebook page is a place that Stanford uses to share information about research projects that are occurring among their students and faculty. There are hundreds of entries including one about She++, a group promoting programming among women and another post about great white sharks.

Science has its own rules for what makes good writing and this page from the Writing Center at University of North Carolina has some great tips on how to write effectively in science

This page defines the creative commons licenses and shows us how to properly attribute CC work.

Edutopia is a site I have relied on in the past for great content. The EDTECH Facebook page is always linking me to their site and I'm usually impressed.

Lengthy discussion of connectivism as a instructional theory as opposed to a learning theory.

This is a good set of tools and instructions for creating and maintaining a PLN.

I found these piece both extremely interesting and valuable. So true the way the author discusses the outcomes of a one-shot workshop vs. a "job-embedded, ongoing" (love the terms!) framework such as PLCs. The main benefits of the PLCs are 1) their are embedded into each school day and are facilitated by teacher support staff and 2) they are not collaboration for collaboration's sake! Instead, they engage teachers into an ongoing dialogue that is of their concern or interest right here, right now! Thus, meaningful collaboration results in meaningful outcomes. Great read!

There's two tools I'm seeing less and less that were included in this blog post. I'm seeing less people using wikis and also Ning seems to have been replaced maybe by Google+? I see this blog as good discussion of using your time wisely and wonder how it might be updated say in 2 or 3 years with new technologies.

Very interesting article. This article discusses findings of interactions and supports for communities of practice or both student-to-student and teacher-to-teacher. It goes on to describe the challenges for student-to-student communities and their dealings with conflict, and the corresponding support provided for the instructor who struggled with having student communities struggle in cohesion. There is a useful graphic on page 291 showing the gathering's (read: community's) intentionality and strength of their social bond - where both are high, there emerges a community of practice.

A Drill & Practice app for Theater teachers and students. Helpful to all level of performers.

Great resource! I am looking for ways to help my students memorize scriptures and I think this app might be a good opportunity to adopt and adapt for that purpose. Thanks for sharing!

Heather Wolpert-Gawron discusses using Facebook in the classroom. She writes about the experience of a teacher who used Facebook in their classroom.

36 page book including app icon, title, and description