A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2012

couros/79 9 Here is my quick list of reasons why all educators should become connected and form their own Personal Learning Network(PLN) : We become the epicenter of our learning and determine what, where, and when we want to learn. This makes the learning process meaningful, relevant, applicable, and convenient.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. For example, you can use your school’s learning management system (LMS), which is a familiar tool for teachers around the world. Some of them prefer to seek classroom collaborations directly.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning. If I want to teach my students effectively in any learning environment, I have to be willing to experiment with methods that may be out of my comfort zone.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2010

Image Credit [link] Most educators I talk to have no idea where to begin when attempting to create a PLN that meets their teaching and learning needs. tools and how they can be utilized for teaching and learning. LinkedIn : Professional networking site that allows educators to connect, exchange ideas, and find opportunities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Speaking on panel at the PBS Digital Innovators event, Brown talked up the rise of the online spaces for collaboration, also known as personal learning networks (PLN) as enabling anyone, even those who in remote areas or who feel more introverted, to come together to collaborate and share ideas.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). As you will see, the true power of connected learning is what you glean from the people you engage with. How does one go about building a network, really?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

So I did what I have been doing for the past five years and that was submit a query to my Personal Learning Network (PLN) using Twitter and Google+. Within minutes I received new recommendations and I took a few minutes to learn how to use each new tool. I had a few in my toolbox, but needed more.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2013

As she explained the project to me I immediately asked her if she could email it to me so I could not only share it, but also gather some feedback for her from my Personal Learning Network (PLN). You will work in a group of three. Each group must have at least one student with a smart phone.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Finding time for teachers to meet and learn together is often very difficult, but a resourceful school team can utilize creative ideas that have worked well in other schools. Here are some ideas for providing time for educators to learn together. Organize some regular large group activities for children. I want more ».

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

Here are my takeaways as moderator of this amazing group: They were risk takers. Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network. Twitter Chats worked best with larger groups. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. They start at $750 for a group of five or more. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. The Tech-infused Teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

That’s three weeks, five hours a week, plus a one-hour weekend virtual meeting each week. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. Complete one weekly project using what you learned and add it to your digital portfolio. Your Personal Learning Network.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

229 (individual); $750 (group of 5). Digs deeper into digital tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Complete one weekly project using what you learned and add it to your digital portfolio. Your Personal Learning Network. July 3rd-July 10th only. Click to join.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 27, 2013

This building was filled with an incredibly rich group of students. Edscape was an incredible learning event for me. His reflection and feedback really put into perspective why I do what I do, how much I love working for New Milford High School, and the vital role that my Personal Learning Network (PLN) has on my professional practice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

That’s three weeks, five hours a week, plus a one-hour weekend virtual meeting each week. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. Complete one weekly project using what you learned and add it to your digital portfolio. Your Personal Learning Network.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Common learning goals and objectives A set of common goals, along with a designated meeting time for focused effort, helps each participant get the most out of a PLC. By setting measurable objectives, educators can use meetings to work together, track progress, and achieve shared teaching goals.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. ” (p. Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., xii cited in Gay, p.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2017

Come by the PowerSchool booth 2918 to meet me in person. In today’s show, Peggy George discusses how to get the most out of ISTE 2017 even if you’re not at there: The #notatiste17 Google Group. How to share learning. Be sure to share what you learn; no matter how or where, give credit. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The social media network can be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or just about anything, although the sheer numbers of educators on Twitter is astounding and becomes quite useful. When you go to conferences, meet other educators. Here is a group of students meeting and connecting at ASB Unplugged in India in 2012.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

How to work tech tools into their unique student groups. How to create a vibrant, healthy Personal Learning Network. Teachers were comfortable with those programs, students learned them and then applied. TweetUps worked best with larger groups. How to create screencasts and screenshots.

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The PL2C Blog

MAY 2, 2018

’ Yup, we’ve all been there at that once in a lifetime conference or PD session where we leave so charged up we can’t wait to put into practice an innovative idea we know will help move our students, faculty, and ourselves to a higher level of personalized learning and success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Here are my takeaways as moderator of this amazing group: They are risk takers. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. Many teachers noted that it was as important to them to validate their approach to teaching technology in their classroom as it was to extend their learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2011

Consider meeting with your administrative team and teacher leaders prior to the start of the school year to identify issues where excuses routinely arise. Engage your staff in a brainstorming session during the first faculty meeting in order to develop a collective vision on how to transform the school for the betterment of all students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Our emails led to phone conversations and eventually an in-person meeting—then another one. I didn’t know what “personalized learning” or “mastery-based grading and assessment” meant. Meeting Alex changed me from a resentful and cautious teacher to an active and involved participant in my community.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

We were talking on Twitter about having an in-person meeting,” says Hadley Fergusion, who helped organize the inaugural event. The impetus, she recalls, came from a desire to learn about new technologies that were coming into the classroom at the time. Then they break out into small groups to have those conversations.

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edWeb.net

MAY 15, 2017

As a personal tool, school leaders can use online communities to expand their network. Meeting other professionals online builds personal learning networks, which help with keeping up to date on the latest in a certain topic or school initiative, allowing for more informed decision making within their own schools.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Watch the video below to learn more about the SAMR model Read more about SAMR here SAMR IN ACTION What instructional objective do your students struggle with learning? How can using the SAMR model allow your students to meet the higher levels of thinking? Other routes to Tech Savvy Teaching.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 12, 2013

Then you can create snazzy graphs to impress them at the next meeting!) However why not take the idea of social networking one step further and enrich the experience with video and file sharing, discussion forums, events and specialty groups. Ning bills itself as the social network you create. Use the Google Forms.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When we no longer need to rely on the teacher as the sole source provider of knowledge instruction becomes more personalized to ability and customized to learning styles. More one on one and small group instruction can take place. Today we want our students to meet strangers on the internet.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

With more and more students learning remotely, the #DLNchat community set out last week to answer the question: How can universities create meaningful community for online students? Some highlighted shared practice: “Community is built on experiences (in real life or virtual) among a group of people,” said Matt Arnold.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 26, 2010

Educators from around the world are gathering to discuss and plan the future of edtech, play (some), but most of all, meet people. grow your personal learning network. Everyone in our group knew each other from Twitter. Yeah, you might not really know that person sitting next to you. Because I do know them.

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My Island View

JANUARY 7, 2016

Of course we should not tell folks how to use Twitter, since it is a matter of personal preference as to how each user uses it and what each gets from it, so the best we can do is model what we see as successes in our own personal use. What was my personal follow policy?

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EdTechTeam

MAY 15, 2017

Are we prepared to meet students at a place that is comfortable for them and to incorporate it in our teaching? I’m an introvert, who generally shies away from big group gatherings. After this conference I have been encouraged to blog more and to record my stories about my moments of learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group enrollment. Group enrollment.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2015

Whole-group, small group, individual. Whether you use Google Classroom, a spreadsheet, or an online gradebook, think of a way to organize data today so that it is easy to reference and share with students, parents, and colleagues in data meetings later on. Get out your camera and bring it with you everywhere you go!

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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Consider, too, those that are in your own support group. Foster your Personal Learning Network (PLN) with educators both locally and globally to build your own capacity, and create a dedicated team to support your work on the ground.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Schools that do not meet the state standards on the exam are listed as “improvement required” campuses. We wanted to reach out to others who were in our same situation and form a learning group,” says Torres. This has been this case for Brook Avenue Elementary School six years in a row. Jessica Torres. “We

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