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Social Media news blog covering cool new websites and social networks: Facebook, Google, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. The latest web technology news, via RSS daily.

Taken from a twitter chat using the hashtag #EdTechChat, this article lists the most commonly cited tech tools which teachers use. Many of them are new to me, so I am going to have to investigate further.

While commanding the ISS, Hadfield used social media like Twitter and YouTube to get people excited about space and, in this interview, shares why he thinks it was so effective

New MIlford High School uses Facebook and Twitter to connect with the community. The posts highlight student achievements and promote school events.

A group of students at Iowa City West High School started a social media club. They are committed to using Twitter and other social media to share positive thoughts.

Mark Frydenberg, a lecturer at Bentley University, has a project were students collaborate on doing a presentation with other students in Romania. They use Facebook and Twitter to connect and YouTube to post videos that they create for the project.

Purdue University has used an application called Hotseat which piggybacks off of existing social networks in two classes. Students can send messages to Hotseat via Facebook or Twitter. Students used this tool to comment to each other and the professor during class.

This is a pretty good explanation of how Twitter has been useful for creating a PLN for this organization.

One of our readings discussed a 2008 graduate online course in educational technology (EC&I 831) that was one of the first to translate connectivist principles into practice. Shortly thereafter, the leaders of connectivism, Siemens and Downes, moderated a similar class (CCK08) as a MOOC with thousands of participants. This article documents both the successes and struggles associated with the CCK08 MOOC.

This article separates technology used in communities of practice based upon the technology's function. Some technology supports content (blogs, vlogs, microblogs, status updates, wikis, collaborative document authoring tools, social bookmarking, media libraries and albums. Project coordination is aided by use of event calendars, task management tools to track project deadlines, and decision support tools. Incentive and recognition technology allows members to be recognized by way of badges and endorsements. Other technology supports member interaction. Profiles and social networking like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Instagram, member commenting, discussion boards, and webinar services allow for member interaction on their own time frames.

A short, engaging YouTube video on defining Personal Learning Networks.

I really enjoy the simplicity of this video while at the same time the depth of understanding it gives in such a brief period of time. For me this video really drives home the effectiveness technology can have in presenting potentially overwhelming information in a very easy to understand manner.

In my opinion, the key words of this video are "what", because you choose what to share, "where" and "when" to do it. It is brief but powerful. Thanks Melodie for sharing it!

TodaysMeet is a backchanneling tool that allows for real-time audience feedback and participation via Twitter.

HootCourse uses a combination of social networks and blogging platforms to provide a new type of online classroom.

This article tells about a new model of storytelling, with active involvement of readers. The creator of this new art is Laura Fleming (@larfleming on Twitter), a library media specialist in a K-6 school in New Jersey, who is passionate about the intersection of storytelling and technology. She blogs at EdTech Insight. (Week 1, Link 1 for EdTech541)

Diipo is a new social networking platform reviewed in this article.

The tag reads "Be the curator of your favorite topic". With this tool, you can easily gather articles and media from the web. Makes it very easy to publish a continuously-updated page about your topic of interest.

Use this tool to easily publish gorgeous magazines

This is an online content curation site. I like this one because students don't have to have a Facebook or Twitter account to sign up.

Edublogs Teachers. This has a Step by Step process of how to create a PLN in just a few weeks. Very useful information given here.

Who can't use a step by step guide for PLNS? This is great. I can use guides for everything! I love quick breakdown and references that are presented in this blog. Thank your for sharing... I may be borrowing this into my diigo library! I think I now officially have a PLN to do list. Thank you for this find.

I love the step-by-step ease of this blog. Bookmarked this and definitely going to use it to my benefit!

Slides form GLOBALEDCON 2016

Beth Transue, a librarian at Messiah College, begins this article with the suggestion that librarian educators reflect the tenets of the connectivist learning theory when designing their information literacy instruction. Transue mentions how the adoption of this theory in the development of library instruction can happen very easily as many of the connectivist principles are already evident in the steps of the research process. Transue spends the majority of the rest of the article talking about how the connectivist theory is connected to the model of the networked student proposed by W. Drexler in 2010. According to Drexler, a student uses information from four different domains: information management, contacts, synchronous communication, and RSS. The information management domain essentially covers the traditional library resources. The contact domain covers those who should be part of the student's personal learning network such as teachers, librarians, and classmates. The synchronous communication domain covers platforms like Twitter and the RSS domain covers blogs, wikis, and other social networks. The author spends the next couple of pages offering very specific directions for librarians to address individual domains in their information literacy instruction. Transue concludes the article by talking about what an information literacy session rooted in the connectivist theory might look like.

Hi Kelly, Interesting article. In one of the videos I found, the connection between research and connectivism was highlighted. I had not thought about that before, but it makes sense! And I've always enjoyed research, so good to know I've already been practicing connectivism on some level.