Found the suggested videos interesting? More suggestions for great videos can be found below:
A TED talk on networks by Nicholas Christakis
Origins of Networks Science by Laszlo Barabasi
One of the tools you will be using is Kumu. Here are some resources for it:
An extensive list of resources
Books:
Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives by N. Christakis and J. Fowler
Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Networks: A Very Short Introduction by Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro
Nexus by Mark Buchanan
Six Degrees: The science of a connected age by Duncan Watts
Social Network Analysis by Christina Prell
Social Networks in Schools by T. Deal, T. Purinton and D. Cook Waetjen
Social Network Theory and educational change by Alan Daly
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
Sync: how order emerges from chaos in the universe, nature and daily life by Steven Strogatz
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything by D. Tapscott and A. Williams
Ebooks
Network Science by Laszlo Barabasi: http://barabasilab.neu.edu/networksciencebook/
Networks, Crowds, and Markets by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf
Articles
Network science in Education: https://sites.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/netscied/
References for classroom
General resource for ideas
http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/network-visualization/page/2/
Biological Networks
VAX! Epidemic game : http://vax.herokuapp.com/
Virus Tracker: https://virustracker.vbi.vt.edu/
Murmurations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY
John Conway’s Game of Life: http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Environmental Networks
Mannahatta Project: https://welikia.org/science/recreating-mannahatta/
Slime mold video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/slime-mold-smarts.html
Slime mold article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brainless-slime-molds/
Another Slime mold video: http://gigaom.com/2014/04/04/how-slime-mold-can-design-transportation-networks-and-maybe-even-transform-computing/
TEDTalk: How trees talk to each other - https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other
Historical Networks
Paul Revere data set - Separate .xls file
Language Arts and Literary networks:
Stanford Literary Lab Phamplet 2 (character networks): https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf
http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/page/Phrase_Net.html
Political Networks
Social Networks
Touchgraph: http://www.touchgraph.com/facebook
Wolfram Alpha personal analytics for facebook: http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/
Immersion: https://immersion.media.mit.edu/
Six Degrees of Separation: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/six-degrees-of-separation /
Oracle of Bacon: http://oracleofbacon.org/
Sports networks:
http://flowingdata.com/2012/03/21/redefining-nba-basketball-positions/
http://flowingdata.com/2012/03/16/march-madness-power-rankings/
Technology tools
Gephi: https://gephi.org/
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Programming Tutorial for NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/programming.html
There are also YouTube tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iD72cuh98&list=PLSx7bGPy9gbFCWOQ6bAb_4ASLIrblXhqP
Websites
Center for Network Science – http://cns.ceu.hu/
Center for Polymer Studies - http://polymer.bu.edu/
Education Group - http://polymer.bu.edu/edu/
Central Node blog - http://blog.netsciwestpoint.org/
Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) Research Group - http://coco.binghamton.edu/
Exploring Networks blog - www.exploringnetworks.com
Network Science – www.network-science.org/
Network Science Center at West Point - http://www.westpoint.edu/nsc/
NetSci High 2011/2012 - https://sites.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/netsci-high-2011-
New York Hall of Science (Connections exhibit) - http://www.nysci.org/explore/exhibitions/connections_summary
NetSciHigh is a program for Highschool students and teachers interested in learning about network Science.