I'll be presenting at the Fall CUE Conference in Napa this weekend. The session is titled "Build Your Own PLN...Right Now!" My goal is to help educators find new ways to receive a steady drip of resources without becoming overwhelmed. Check out the slides here.
Showing posts with label pln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pln. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/07/2014
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- According to Code.org, 90 percent of U.S. schools are not teaching any computer science. Eyebrows have been raised this year as the U.K. passed a plan to educate every child how to code (3).
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/18/2014
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A quick visual on how to read a tweet.
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Type in a URL and see how it relates to other sites.
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Professional development courses that span all subjects and grade levels. Courses range from 1.5 hours to 45 hours.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/12/2014
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Suggestions for how to create a Personal Learning Network and thereby give yourself a constant stream of PD.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/18/2013
- College papers: Students hate writing them. Professors hate grading them. Let’s stop assigning them.
- Hilarious article on why assigning papers might be more of a punishment for teachers than for students.
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Reasons to build a PLN.
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For when you need a laugh.
PLN - Got one?
One of the buzz words/acronyms that has been flying around for some time is PLN. The abbreviation stands for personal learning network. However, I like to think of it as a professional learning network because I use my PLN to help me do a better job as a tech integrationist.
Here's what a PLN can do for you.
So what does a professional learning network look like? Well for me it started off slowly with Twitter. I began by subscribing to a bunch of educators who were recommended to me by a friend and then eventually by Twitter itself. (Twitter generates suggestions based on who you currently follow.) You can follow me @JillBergeron2 and see who I'm following. Wanna know more about Twitter? Check out this amazing guide put out by Edudemic.
From Twitter, I moved on to Diigo, a social bookmarking site. When you sign up for Diigo, be sure to sign up for a teacher account through Diigo in Education. This has been such an asset to me in my job and here's why. Diigo will send you bookmarks either every day or every week (your choice) that are specifically related to education. You can sort through other teach bookmarks by use the tags. Again, just like Twitter, this is a site where you can follow other educators whom you respect.
My third foray into building my PLN has come through MyYahoo RSS reader. What a reader will do is pull the most recent posts (typically just the headlines) from a set of blogs to which you subscribe. It collects all of these headlines in one place for you to browse at your convenience. What you need to look for is the icon to the right. Click on it and it will ask you which reader you want to use. I like Yahoo because it's always an option on any site, but there are plenty of others to choose from. Then find some blogs that appeal to you. Edutopia and Edudemic are good places to start.
Here's what a PLN can do for you.
- It will help you build a community among like minded educators.
- It will shower you with unique ideas, links, articles and videos.
- It will prevent you from having to Google everything because now you will have a reliable network from which you can pluck resources.
So what does a professional learning network look like? Well for me it started off slowly with Twitter. I began by subscribing to a bunch of educators who were recommended to me by a friend and then eventually by Twitter itself. (Twitter generates suggestions based on who you currently follow.) You can follow me @JillBergeron2 and see who I'm following. Wanna know more about Twitter? Check out this amazing guide put out by Edudemic.
From Twitter, I moved on to Diigo, a social bookmarking site. When you sign up for Diigo, be sure to sign up for a teacher account through Diigo in Education. This has been such an asset to me in my job and here's why. Diigo will send you bookmarks either every day or every week (your choice) that are specifically related to education. You can sort through other teach bookmarks by use the tags. Again, just like Twitter, this is a site where you can follow other educators whom you respect.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/07/2013
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Good explanation of Easel.ly with warning that it does not work on Chrome.
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Based on the terms of service and privacy policies of the these five sites, I would recommend Infogr.am and easel.ly for teachers with students under 13.
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How to use Twitter to help build your learning network. This is a great article for helping teachers understand how to use Twitter for PD.
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