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5 Ideas to Tap Social Media to Enhance PD and Student Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Nikki Robertson, ISTE Librarians Network President Elect, shares five ways to use social media to enhance professional development and improve student learning. Can social media be effective professional development? Connected Librarians: Tap Social Media to Enhance Professional Development and Student Learning.

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Coming Soon: Edcamps, Brought to You by the Letters PBS

Edsurge

The do-it-yourself conference is coming to your local public broadcaster, as part of a new venture between the Edcamp Foundation and PBS Education. Between now and May, 10 local PBS affiliates will host a series of specially branded events, called PBS Edcamps, aimed at educators and caregivers of students in Pre-K through third grade.

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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

): Two of the profession''s most connected educators explain how to effectively use social media to build a professional learning network. The Edcamp Model: Powering Up Professional Learning , by The Edcamp Foundation: Professional development has never been so simple than when teachers create it.

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Excellent Online Professional Development Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology Guy

Social media provides a great resource for educators, especially Twitter, to connect, share and learn with other educators. There are new forms of in-person professional development, like Edcamps , that are also a great way for educators to learn new things.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Non-traditional forms of professional learning such as the use of social media and Edcamps are valued, not dismissed. Community partnerships include the formal and informal local and global community connections, collaborative projects, and relationships that advance the school’s learning goals. Community Partnerships.

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School Librarian as your Information Overload Superhero!

EdTechTeam

With easy access to websites, blogs, online PD, webinars, YouTube, workshops, and social media, finding digital resources is not hard to do. The post School Librarian as your Information Overload Superhero! Ugghh, help, I can’t keep up! Organizing what we find, however, for efficient access when we need it, might not be so easy.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

They’re responding, they’re getting the information our mentors are sharing. We’re in a situation now that we can jump on social media and share and grow with each other, and my goal is to be able to connect people. So I’m getting positive feedback from not only in the cohort, but people outside the cohort, too. Jody: It is.

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