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This site, created by Scholastic, is jammed with activities for students and teachers. I personally like the authors and illustrators page, on which students can view videos about authors, and participate in writing workshops where authors give students tips on how to improve their writing in a specific genre.

Knowledge condensed into PDF's. Best Guides are on computers.

AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level. The AAAMath.com site contains thousands of pages of Math Lessons.

This is an excellent resource for those who work with primary grades, specifically for primary students with cognitive impairments or delays. This program provides kid-friendly menus for the MS Office Suite.

MS Office, kid friendly

A great resource for teachers that use MAP standardized testing, with links to various math activities according to RIT scores of students. (Week 1, Link 2 for EdTech541)

The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age

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.

The textbook company, Glencoe, did a great resource page that has several academic sites on using the internet into your classroom. They give examples and instructions for educators.

This article discusses the use of communities of practice for university teachers as the demand for research increases. Cites how many professors got into teaching to teach, not to do research, and are either leaving the profession or joining communities of practice to develop research skills and get help to meet the research demands. The bottom of page 972 talks about the challenges for those who are not well trained in research. The bottom of 973 talks about what it takes to change a teaching culture to a research culture. 979 has a useful table on what it looks like for education faculties to build their research capability.

I believe that a lot of individuals enter the university teaching profession thinking they are only going to teach! So many of my professor friends have found that they have to write grants and build in their yearly incomes just to stay employed! Thanks for sharing!

This article discusses how communities of practice benefit from technology, particularly in social work contexts. To start, it talks about how groups such as Weight Watchers and Alcoholics Anonymous are communities of practice (this was good for me to see as I have certainly been basing them on more "tech based" models). A key part of communities of practice, according to the article, is becoming a practitioner and not simply acquiring knowledge about practice. Page 593 also had a useful "stage" description to see communities of practice along a continuum.

This website provides background information on connectivism, including the primary theorists, and principles. In addition it does delve into how connectivism is used in the classroom and with technology. The website also provides other links to websites for those seeking more information or how to apply connectivism.

I enjoy this site because of the wealth of information available to educators. Whether you are interested in professional development or employment in an independent setting, you can discover opportunity here.

This book was written by Stephen Downes. Although it is very lengthy, there are many visual representations of connectivity and portions of the book that are very informative. It is broken into chapters that stand independently allowing the reader to pick and choose what they need information on.

Connectivism by Stephen Downes, anything you want to know about connectivism in this 600+ page pdf.

This article actually stretches into the idea of Asynchronous Learning Networks. It is probably a little out of the scope of this assignment but the article focused on the social needs and elements of Asynchronous learning so I thought it was interesting and relevant.

This is quite old, however, as I read through the document I felt that the information was still relevant. You may read through it to see if you agree. While the tools and access have become much more advanced since 1998, the needs of participants in an asynchronous network have not changed. Let me know if you agree. For a fun look at the past, see the graphic on page 11.

This is an interesting website that has resources how organizations are using communities of practice. There are a ton of resources on this page. I enjoyed the inter-organizational community of practice link.