Year 3 Session 3
Tuesday, January 14 3:30 - 7:30 p.m. Clark County Middle School
Your Personal Learning Network - Online Professional Development
How will you stay connected? Developing your own online network is a great way to stay in touch with
current trends in education and find great teaching ideas.
50 Great Ways to Grow your PLN
The Educator's PLN - Ning site
Follow a blog.
Find one blog below that you would like to check in with on a regular basis. Save it!
eMINTS National Center Blog
Top 100 Educational Blogs
EdWeek List of Blogs For and By Teachers
25 Brilliant Teacher Blogs Worth Following
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
Copy Paste - Educational Ideas (especially in History)
Find your own blog with Technorati - blog search engine
Join a MOOC - Massive Open Online Course.
There is a free online course out there on just about everything you would like to know.
What is one course you would like to take and why?
Coursera
Udemy
Catalyst Academy - Courses for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math)
Good Old Fashioned Websites
Click on the Resources link above and choose your subject area.
Find a website.
Email me: One good website I should add to this list.
Twitter
What can you learn in 140 characters or less? A whole lot!
Getting Started:
Create a Twitter account just for education contacts. Keep your personal account personal.
Figure out what it all means:
Getting Started on Twitter
How to find powerful information on Twitter
A Refreshingly Simple Guide to Twitter for Educators
You can be a participant or you can lurk. Start by lurking and then join the fray for a simple approach.
Find the right people to follow.... ones that post good resources.
Drop those who don't pan out!
Twitter for Teachers Wiki
Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter
10 Rock Star Teachers on Twitter
Search and Follow Hashtags.
No... it is no longer a number symbol. # is now a hashtag.
Hashtags are the tools that actually help you make sense of Twitter posts.
You can search by #title and find information on a particular topic. For example: #edtech
The 15 Best Twitter Hashtags for Teachers
Best Education HashTags Infographic
The @ symbol: who can you connect with?
@ designates a particular Twitter user.
When you click Reply on a Tweet it will add an @ to the front of your post. You can direct a Tweet to someone using the @followedbytheirTweetname.
A mention is the @username any where in the Tweet.
What are @ replies and mentions?
Join a Tweet Chat. It is kind of crazy but you can connect with other educators.
What is a Twitter #chat?
13 Great Twitter Chats for Teachers
Organize your Tweeting with TweetDeck.
TweetDeck
HootSuite - Allows you to organize multiple types of social media.
Twitter can be a classroom tool.
Getting Started with Twitter in the Classroom
More great Twitter sites:
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Twitter for Teachers
How will you stay connected? Developing your own online network is a great way to stay in touch with
current trends in education and find great teaching ideas.
50 Great Ways to Grow your PLN
The Educator's PLN - Ning site
Follow a blog.
Find one blog below that you would like to check in with on a regular basis. Save it!
eMINTS National Center Blog
Top 100 Educational Blogs
EdWeek List of Blogs For and By Teachers
25 Brilliant Teacher Blogs Worth Following
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
Copy Paste - Educational Ideas (especially in History)
Find your own blog with Technorati - blog search engine
Join a MOOC - Massive Open Online Course.
There is a free online course out there on just about everything you would like to know.
What is one course you would like to take and why?
Coursera
Udemy
Catalyst Academy - Courses for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math)
Good Old Fashioned Websites
Click on the Resources link above and choose your subject area.
Find a website.
Email me: One good website I should add to this list.
What can you learn in 140 characters or less? A whole lot!
Getting Started:
Create a Twitter account just for education contacts. Keep your personal account personal.
Figure out what it all means:
Getting Started on Twitter
How to find powerful information on Twitter
A Refreshingly Simple Guide to Twitter for Educators
You can be a participant or you can lurk. Start by lurking and then join the fray for a simple approach.
Find the right people to follow.... ones that post good resources.
Drop those who don't pan out!
Twitter for Teachers Wiki
Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter
10 Rock Star Teachers on Twitter
Search and Follow Hashtags.
No... it is no longer a number symbol. # is now a hashtag.
Hashtags are the tools that actually help you make sense of Twitter posts.
You can search by #title and find information on a particular topic. For example: #edtech
The 15 Best Twitter Hashtags for Teachers
Best Education HashTags Infographic
The @ symbol: who can you connect with?
@ designates a particular Twitter user.
When you click Reply on a Tweet it will add an @ to the front of your post. You can direct a Tweet to someone using the @followedbytheirTweetname.
A mention is the @username any where in the Tweet.
What are @ replies and mentions?
Join a Tweet Chat. It is kind of crazy but you can connect with other educators.
What is a Twitter #chat?
13 Great Twitter Chats for Teachers
Organize your Tweeting with TweetDeck.
TweetDeck
HootSuite - Allows you to organize multiple types of social media.
Twitter can be a classroom tool.
Getting Started with Twitter in the Classroom
More great Twitter sites:
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Twitter for Teachers