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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

You can do this by gathering a focus group of teachers from a district or school, by handing out surveys or by observing them while they work. This type of learning focuses on lesson content as well as instructional strategies that work best in each context. Schools might be concerned about the lack of interaction in online learning.

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Grow Your Own Personal Learning Network

Nik Peachey

This is just a quick posting to share a session on building your own Personal Learning Network, that I did for teachers in British Council Bilbao recently (25th September 2010). Mb) Tools for growing your PLN Twitter Twitter is a great tool for starting to reach out to a huge network of teachers.

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Twitterize Adult Learning | A MOOC-Ed Experience

The PL2C Blog

To make content succinct and continuous, we implemented four Twitter Chats directly related to the content of the week in which they occurred. Through the experience, participants synchronously responded to a series of open-ended opinion questions, shared resources, and celebrated their learning through the hashtag: #CDL_MOOCEd.

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7 Must-Read Resources on Social Media for School Leaders

The 21st Century Principal

School leaders, however, are not encouraged to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools as a 21st century announcement system. This book takes readers through a complete survey of all the tools from blogs to social bookmarking to even gaming.

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15 Non-librarian blog(ger)s too good to miss!

NeverEndingSearch

Among Pernille’s recent posts are Why Writing Sucks and We Need to Talk About It and Getting to Know Our Students Survey. TeachThought.com was founded and is directed by Terry Heick , an author and former classroom teacher interested in rethinking how we think about K-12 teaching and learning. by Terry Heick.

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Tools to Help Become a Tech Savvy Educator

A Principal's Reflections

Tools for Learning Twitter : Improve instruction through global collaboration (sharing resources, best practices, lesson ideas, acquire knowledge, networking, tracking conferences, etc.), grow professionally by establishing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) , follow specific hashtags (#).

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