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TalentEgg: York University prof experiments with social media as a teaching tool - YouTube - 0 views

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    Professor uses blogs, YouTube, and Twitter to reach computer science students at York University.
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Learning in 140 - Character Bites - 0 views

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    Professor asks students to use Twitter to send in questions, answers the most common questions at the end of class.
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Next Generation Science Standards - 0 views

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    This site lists out the standards for the use of engineering and technology in the classroom.
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Google Images - 0 views

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    Library and search engine for images (clipart, scanned, and photos). Can be filtered to search based on copyright licensing.
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Annotated Bibliography - Twitter, Social Networking and Communities of Practice - 5 views

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    I really like annotated bibliographies because they provide so much information on a topic in a fairly simple analytical summary, and they allow the reader to delve further by providing the source. The author, Kristi Newgarden, has two fields of interest: educational technology and teaching English as a Second Language. Overall, the focus of the bibliography is on Communities of Practice and Lave and Wenger's concepts of Legitimate Peripheral Participation.
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    I agree with you about annotated bibliographies being a great resource. Not only did this great link provide further scholarly readings but gave a glimpse into what we could expect from them as well. I really enjoyed the list and found it great that some of them were brand new from the research I've already done at the beginning of this module. Great find!
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    Though not an academic study, this annotated bibliography from Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, gives the reader summaries of over 40 sources related to Twitter, Social Networking, and CoPs. This bibliography is similar to one required in EdTech 501 at BSU. The resources provided come from a wide-range of academic disciplines and publications providing the reader with a diverse bibliography to look over.
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    Scott, it's great that you found this annotated bibliography. What caught my attention initially was that it was posted on a TESL website, but after reading further the author mentioned that the resources mentioned could benefit any teacher in any subject area. This is a nice way to find resources on a topic without having to type in a search engine or review resources at the end of a research study. Even better when there is a summary provided so you don't have to figure out if that is a beneficial resource or not.
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    J Matibag - One thing I didn't touch upon, but didn't, is the benefit summaries provided in an annotated bibliography like this one. Thanks for putting that into your post. Having these description certainly gives the reader a chance to discover more sources in less time. Most studies I've read tend to be 10-25 pages, so this circumvents sifting through studies that may not be what one is looking for.
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Communities of Practice: a brief introduction - 3 views

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    This is an excellent overview of what communities of practice are, the characteristics that define them and some examples of what they "look" like. Gives great information to those new to the idea.
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    An introduction to Communities of Practice which provides a well written yet concise overview of the systems organization and application in the real world.
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    Summary: This user-friendly article discusses what CoPs are and what they look like. I appreciated the fact that Etienne Wenger says a CoP could be " … a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope." However, he also adds, that sharing the same job or the same job title doesn't mean you are part of a CoP. A true community must interact and learn together! This article provides a great starting point for those who do not know much about CoP and / or where the concept came from.
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    I really enjoyed the author's writing style which included metaphors and lots of examples and non-examples of COP. I noticed this blog post was 2006, and so I was curious what the author had been involved with since this post, especially since he points out the importance of sustained interaction. He now has a consulting business to help problem solve education solutions found at http://wenger-trayner.com/
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    Excellent resource to begin to understand CoP's. Etienne Wenger was cited in many of the articles I researched.
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Connecting with George Siemens - 0 views

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    This video uses a great metaphor of Rhizomes for learning. It is described as an uncontrollable pattern. It asserts that learning needs to make connections outside of the normal entities. For instance, there have been biology studies that have reached over into the realm of engineering. Although these are two separate subjects, it increases more lines of connection and hence more knowledge. This video also describes the ecology of learning and that connectivism acts as a tool that will continually adapt, change and move along with the flow of information.
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Trevor Cox on YouTube - 0 views

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    I recently heard an interview with acoustic engineer Trevor Cox and discovered his YouTube channel as a result. He's got some amazing videos related to sound that could be a great hypermedia tool for a science classroom.

Social Network Projects in the Classroom: The KnowGlobe Project - 0 views

started by vanessa botts on 20 Jul 13 no follow-up yet
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Next Generation Personal Learning Environments - 0 views

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    This article proposes the infrastructure of a next generation "context-aware" PLE environment that would automatically filter content using a Bayesian prediction engine. The guts of this are over my head, but it does address one of the key issues with PLEs and Connectivist pedagogies which is information overload and significant time wasted exploring the "wrong" links and resources.
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Learning Chaos - George Siemens Stephen Downes Connectivism Mix - 1 views

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    This is a mix of Stephen Downes, George Siemens and others discussing Chaos and how it relates to our learning and Connectivism as whole. Downes mentioned that in the last decade he has posted over 16,000 posts on learning. That is a stunning chaotic number for me to try and filter. Siemens uses working on a automobile engine and have bolts left over. Downes mentions that if a butterfly flaps it's wings in Central America it causes a thunderstorm in Central Park. This cause and effect on our inter-connected universe gives me pause to think about my own information filtering and what I try to absorb.
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Wolfram Math World - 0 views

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    Mathematica is a computational software program used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields. It was conceived by Stephen Wolfram and is developed by Wolfram Research of Champaign, Illinois. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica
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Google Scholar - Peer reviewed publications - 0 views

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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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Creative Commons Search - 0 views

  • Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link
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Wolfram Demonstrations Project - 1 views

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    Explore thousands of free applications across science, mathematics, engineering, technology, business, art, finance, social sciences, and more.

http://www.everystockphoto.com/ - 1 views

started by Robin Nappi on 11 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
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Self Made Scholar - 0 views

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    I recently came across this site and found a few good resources. Check it out and see what you can find. I found a search engine for free classes to learn whatever you'd like.
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DragonFly Masterclass - Magic Marks education - 0 views

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    Dragonfly Education is a Company providing technological aids in the form of teaching courseware to engineering intuitions. Masterclass educates students through animated videos explaining difficult concepts through real life examples and easy-to-grasp visuals.
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2lingual Google Search - 1 views

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    2Lingual is a ELL/ESL Learner friendly search tool powered by Google. It allows learners to search for articles in both English and a language of their choice from a drop-down list of many languages.
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