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The Learning Network Blog on NYTimes.com. For two years, students, teachers, parents and others have posted and commented on this blog. Daily lessons for subjects across curriculum based on Times content are offered. Suggestions are given for using the The Learning Network posts in the classroom. The Learning Network is accessible without a digital subscription, as are the articles linked from Learning Network posts.

Posted by The Innovative Educator on The innovative Educator (blog), August 18 2010. A look at real-world examples of 2.0 and social networking technologies enriching educators' interactions with their personal learning networks.

By Tong Xiang in the (Duke) Chronicle, October 7 2010. Review of film, The Social Network.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

The UK newspaper The Guardian hosts this online teacher network, which includes articles (top page) as well as a resource database accessed through this page. You can filter by subject, grade level and even creator type (e.g. Guardian, teachers or partners). While there is a decidedly UK slant, there might be some neat teaching ideas here.

Information about the upcoming conference on networked learning in higher education and lifelong learning

By Derek Bruff in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 6, 2011. The author discusses multiple methods of sharing academic information: social bookmarking, back channels and collaborative documents.

On Faculty Inquiry Network. This page links to an article written by Katie Hern and Myra Snell for RP Group's statewide newsletter, Perspectives. The article, Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration, June 2010, argues that attrition can be guaranteed in long developmental sequences and presents evidence that one semester, open-access courses are a way to increase student completion rates in college-level English and math.

From Forum Network of PBS and NPR. This forum features Rebecca Wheeler, Catherine Snow, Rachel Swords, and Ronald Ferguson discussing how to "build on students' existing knowledge of everyday English." (1 hr 16 mins).

By Debra Ferreday; Vivien Hodgson; Chris Jones; published in Studies in Continuing Education, Vol 28 (3), November 2006, pp. 223-239. A case study of a networked management learning course in higher education, this paper looks at dialogue and identity.

Blog of the CUNY Games Network, which promotes games-based learning in the college classroom.

The Faculty Inquiry Network (FIN) "is comprised of community college faculty from across California, working in teams to investigate a complex problem in basic skills education..." (from Info page). Together, they have produced this beautiful blog which describes faculty inquiry ("a form of professional development") and includes resources and a toolkit. There is also an email subscription available, to better keep current with this project.

"Abstract The use of design patterns is now well established as an approach within the field of software systems as well as within the field of architecture. An initial effort was made to harness patterns as a tool for elaborating the design of the elements of personal learning environments as part of the University of Bolton's Personal Learning Environment project; however, this earlier effort had a number of limitations that prompted a revisit to the pattern language documented here. In particular, the initial patterns, while functionally useful, lacked some of the moral and generative qualities that are the essential qualities of an effective pattern language. This paper presents a revised pattern language focused around two primary categories, learning networks, and personal learning tools."

"The NASA Electronic Professional Development Network (ePDN) program, located at the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, brings together multiple partners to tackle developing effective electronic professional development courses for use in NASA programs and by STEM teachers across the nation. The three Georgia Tech partners are the Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE) department, the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC), and ORBIT Education, Inc, a NASA-themed educational service provider. "

By Hunter R. Boylan, National Center for Developmental Education; published by Continuous Quality Improvement Network with the NCDE, 2002.

SB finds Boylan's "is the best book I know of that specifically addresses the developmental classroom and what works."

Edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, MPublishing, 2011. (Print edition forthcoming) This site is an open-access version of a volume of over 300 responses to questions posed by the editors in their social networks. Contributors were allowed only one week to respond. The approach, encouraging interactivity as well as a time limit, and the questions intended to provoke thinking on how digital media and technology can beneficially reform the academy. The editors convincingly state a good case for their choice of the word "hack." (originally bookmarked September 9, 2011. The previous link is no longer active.)

Quia is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. It provides instructional tools including: templates for creating online activities, online testing tools, access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes, a schoolwide network to promote collaboration, a centralized classroom management system, a class Web page creator and online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback

By Juan Carlos Calcagno and Bridget Long, originally published as NBER Working Paper No W14194, July 2008. Here, the article is part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). This link provides a brief abstract and citation information. Full article is available for purchase, and may be available through your local library.

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From the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A Networked Improvement Community (NIC) is aimed at dramatically increasing the proportion of community college students who are mathematically prepared to succeed.

Founded in 1880, today the Conference on Basic Writing (CBW) is a special interest group of the Conference on College Communications and Composition (CCCC). The CBW's mission "is to create a network of basic writing professionals."

Youtube video. Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN)