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Twitter is the most common PLN out there. With thousands of teachers out there you can find help easy using hashtag searches. Using tweetdecks and other awesome resources available.

Facebook is harder to find trends and new followers, if you have a good list of teachers on your friend list then it is a great resource to answer long questions using facebook messanger.

Here is our Teacher's Guide To Pinterest that gives you a few more ideas about how to properly use Pinterest in an education setting. Enjoy!

This website discusses what exactly is technology integration and gives examples as well.

Technology integration is the use of technology resources -- computers, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, digital cameras, social media platforms and networks, software applications, the Internet, etc. -- in daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school.

A wonderful website for examples, activities to help you learn to integrate tech into the classroom!

Learn the artistic and technical side of movie making!

This site provides resources and curriculum for teachers to use in their classrooms. Including lessons, interactives, nearpod activities, assessments, and more.

Edmodo is a website similar to facebook that corresponds to a site that is similar to D2L. If a school does not have their own D2L, Edmodo is a good site to use for one.

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

My daughter's school uses Edmodo and it works great for students. Teachers assign homework, and students ask follow-up questions while completing the assignment or anything concerning the class lesson.

This is a useful tutorial for Windows Movie Maker. This tool could be helpful for both teachers and students.

How to create and edit a video using windows.

This is the chapter of the book we taught to the class.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.S.O.S. for Information Literacy will link lesson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12. There are useful lesson plans, powerpoint, handouts, web pages, and activities for your students to learn about information literacy, plagiarism, and digital citizenship.

S.O.S is a site for helping to teach literacy in the classroom.

I chose this resource because it talk about six tools that help with teacher-parent communication. Being able to communicate with your students parents is a very important factor and it explains that and how to improve it. It discusses six different apps that are used in different ways and gives alternatives to the one he describes.

Common Sense Education provides a list of various tools that teachers can use to communicate with parents, whether they want to communicate via social media, use remind alerts, or start something like a class website.

These are some fun ways to collaborate within the classroom!

This website has good videos to show pertaining to Digital Citizenship.

This article helps teachers use video production in their classroom. Even gives resources for videos in the classroom.

This tool students can use in the classroom to create their own storyboards. It helps them organize their thoughts in an interactive manner.

Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it's become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown. This is a great website on how a teacher can use it in their classroom.

This website defines technology integration and gives different examples of what that integration could mean. It also gives various examples of ways/games/activities to use for learning while using technology.

This Edutopia offers an easy to understand definition of technology integration and how to SUCCESSFULLY implement it. It also provides the reader with differing avenues and examples on how to use technology in the classroom.

An article about how to integrate technology into classrooms, and some examples of what to use

Gives insight to personal learning networks and why a teacher should be using social media. "By developing professional relationships electronically, teachers can immediately post their latest articles, research, experiences, or discoveries. You, the connected teacher, are the recipient of all of these communications."