EDTECH at Boise State University

This article looks at the specific strengths of different types of visuals in presentations. The article covers charts, photos, screen captures, comics, infographs, and other various graphics. The author then states how each can better engage your audience.

This article contains useful and interesting tips from presentation experts. It contains tips on images, fonts, themes, and structure.

Library and search engine for images (clipart, scanned, and photos). Can be filtered to search based on copyright licensing.

Library of images, videos, and other resources in the public domain. Not as widely contributed to as one would expect.

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Online quiz creator.

Free hull modeling and design software.

This article is a collection of recent audience response systems that can be used in the classroom. The author lists the resource along with a brief description. The systems that are listed are free and work on many devices.

This article takes a broad look at concept maps in various applications. The author gives some historical background to concept maps, explains a few varieties of maps, and presents research that supports the use of concept maps.

THis site is the product of a class taught by Stephen Downes in which his students had to discuss connectivism and decide if it was a learning theory or not.

This resource ties social media and communities of practice together, discussing how social media can create a "more dynamic" type of community. We need to focus on the context of the community to find the best tools for the community to use to develop knowledge and skills together. Social media can create a better flow of discussion and engages more of the members with the ease of access and ability to share resources quickly and easily.

This article explains the positive impact and value that social media adds to communities of practice. And it explained the many factors to consider when using social media as part of a community of practice.

The author discusses the paradigm shift of collaborative learning networks from school organized meeting to less formal communities of practices gathering through social media networks. Additionally, he discusses the need to remain connected for the benefit of the students.

This is an interesting article about how teachers used to work with one another such as going to conferences and having meeting with others in their field. Then it moves on to how they can get the same information from there PLN. This is a way to save time and money for a school district since it is all done virtual. But it also talks about how since we as teacher learned in a time without PLN we are more likely to shy away from them.

This article delivered clear and concise benefits of PLN's. These benefits included customized learning, improved online collaboration and lack of geographic barriers.

This is more than a brief introduction, as the title states. Wenger explains the origins, definition, and applications of communities of practice.

This wiki page lists the principles of connectivism and gives a short summary of origin and theory. It is very succinct and helped me understand how connectivism differs from other learning theories.