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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

It can help schools create an active learning environment that is sustainable, collaborative, coherent, focused on specific subjects, and that allows for educators to learn throughout the year. Here are a few guidelines to help you create successful online PD for teachers: Establish what teachers need. Give timely feedback.

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Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter

EdTechSandyK

The Personal Learning Network (PLN) that I''ve built on Twitter over the past couple of months has become an amazing resource for learning about what''s going on in the educational technology world. One thing I''ve learned about using the web and Web 2.0 One thing I''ve learned about using the web and Web 2.0

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A Wrap Up Of Day 1 At #FETC

The Web20Classroom

Personal Learning Networks-Holly Atkins Notes- [link] While I am no expert on Personal Learning Networks I do speak a lot about them and profess their usage so I enjoy to hear other perspectives on them and their creation. In this session, the presenters focused on Twitter and Pintrest.

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How to Introduce a Young Scholar to Twitter

ProfHacker

I’ve learned from years of trying that nobody “gets” Twitter when you talk to them about it, and that part of the power of it is in the capacity to make global connections to knowledgeable others. Here are some guidelines if you’re a Twitter fan and want to do the same. Please share in comments!

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#blideo - a new blogging challenge

Learning with 'e's

As something that started out simply as a bit of fun between a few Twitter friends , the #blimage challenge has been a surprising success. For the many people who have participated to date, it has been an exercise in creative thinking, and an experience of extending social connections within their personal learning networks.

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The Fault Lines Between Sharing and Shilling for an Edtech Product

Edsurge

For educators like Sean Arnold, who lists more than a dozen credentials and awards from edtech companies on his personal blog, that relationship can be a “double-edged sword,” as he described in his response to the article. “My I’ve followed the guidelines, but when does advocating for the best tools stop and shilling for a product begin?”

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Subscriber Special: February

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are general guidelines: up to 10 people per class (same low price–$750). Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching: February 5th-8th: Group Professional Development.