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Build Your Personal Learning Network #WTI15

Reading By Example

I had the privilege of presenting at the Wisconsin Technology Initiative on December 5, 2015. My topic was how to get started in building one’s personal learning network. There were positives, but it seemed like schoolwide professional learning wasn’t enough for the teachers attending.

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8 Ways for Teachers (and Parents) to Use Twitter

Gaggle Speaks

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Diana Graber. Unless you’ve been living in a box at the bottom of the ocean since 2006, you should know about Twitter, the social network that lets users read and send “tweets” no more than 140 characters long. To help, here are eight ways to get to know Twitter better. Within seconds.

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Edcamp comes to CT - twice this year! Join in, share, learn.

Educational Technology Guy

The Edcamp model is unique in that attendees set the agenda the morning of the conference and the sessions are not led by one person, but are rather a collaboration of both the facilitator and attendees. This is a great opportunity to connect, share, teach, learn, and expand their personal learning network.

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Voxer, Twitter, and EdCamps: How to Tackle the Harsh Realities of Finding Good Statewide PD

Edsurge

Potential Solution: Now, this first solution may sound familiar to some of you—to easily connect on Twitter, we host Nebraska EdChat ( #NebEdChat ), which takes place on Wednesday night at 8pm CST. Teachers Know Best, 2015 But the beauty of an EdCamp isn’t just in the fact that it’s live. The Possibilities are… Endless?

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Epic Effective Classroom Decoration and Design Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Barrett, P. Folkins, J.

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Has “Twitter” Changed or Has Our View?

The Principal of Change

(This is more about me reflecting to learn, as opposed to sharing my learning so please excuse the length of the post. There has been a lot of conversation on how “Twitter has changed” recently, and I have thought a lot about this concept. First of all, Twitter changes for people as their network grows larger.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

Summer PD 2015 just ended. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Lots of questions, often directed to each other–for clarification, personal experience, or simple collegiality. They were curious. They are life long learners.