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People Make the Difference

A Principal's Reflections

It started with Twitter and eventually led to the use of virtually every major social media tool available with the sole goal of improving professional practice. Becoming connected and developing my own Personal Learning Network (PLN) freed me from the purgatory that the traditional system of education had created.

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Social Media Guide and Resources for Educators

Educational Technology Guy

Follow me on Twitter and Google+. free resources social media social network' This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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Social Media in Education Resources and Guides

Educational Technology Guy

Follow me on Twitter and Google+. facebook Google for Educators google plus social media twitter' Follow me on Twitter and Google+. facebook Google for Educators google plus social media twitter' This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Earlier still, were the cave paintings of early man a primitive form of distance education?

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10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

Educational Technology Guy

I learn so much from Twitter and Google+ because of the people and web sites I follow there. This goes along with number 3 - self learning. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. I get more "professional development" out of a week of participating in social media than I have in 10 years of traditional professional development.

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Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens

MindShift

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. You can follow him on Twitter at @DavidPriceOBE.'

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Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens

MindShift

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. You can follow him on Twitter at @DavidPriceOBE.