Connected Educator Month

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Places to connect

Whar are your favorite places to connect with other educators?

Use the Post Comment link to share your thoughts.

There are a lot of great places to connect with other teachers to share and learn. Here are just a few:

(Feel free to add to this list by clicking Edit at the top of this page.)

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  • Verena Roberts   Aug. 4, 2012, 10:48 p.m.

    I was just in Peggy George and Lorna Constnatini's Pro D Session with the Speaks Volumes Conference.  They put together an amazing collection of "On Demand" Professional Development Resources (Free and Online) for educators.

    Here's the link:


    http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=429095

     

    Lorna and Peggy co-facilitate Classroom 2.0 LIVE on Saturday mornings....

    Favourite places  to hang out with other Connected Educaors are...Twitter, Online Courses and Classroom 2.0 Online Conferences.

    Verena :)

  • Sheri Edwards   July 13, 2012, 5:40 p.m.

    Another colleague in my PLN, Denise Krebs,  just presented at the Iowa Reading Conference. Her presentation was, "Joining the Conversation" in which she told her story of becoming a "literate" teacher by joining Twitter and jumping into the digital and social media.  Her presentation, I think, would be also excellent as part of the Connected Educators Month. I told her about it and will send her the link.

  • karen   July 13, 2012, 7:50 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Sheri Edwards   July 13, 2012, 5:40 p.m.

    That's great. We would be happy to post her presentation and engage in some conversations around it here; perhaps in the "personalized learning" strand.

    I think it is so important to have these conversations as a part of curriculum conferences like the reading ones, not just in ed tech!

    Thanks for sharing, and I'll wait to hear more about getting this posted.

  • Sheri Edwards   July 24, 2012, 10:57 p.m.
    In Reply To:   karen   July 13, 2012, 7:50 p.m.

    Denise and I are revising the presentation and website to be:

     

    Extend the Conversation: Jump In and Participate

     

    Our audience are the lurkers, those who have tested the digital waters of twitter and blog reading, but who have not yet dipped their toes in to participate.

    We're working on it this week; it's a draft right now.

    We didn't know if we would just have the site and presentation available, or do we present?  

     

  • karen   July 31, 2012, 11:51 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Sheri Edwards   July 24, 2012, 10:57 p.m.

    Denise and Sheri will be doing a webinar for this presentation on Sat., August 18 at 1pm Easter/10am Pacific. Stay tuned for more details on how you can participate!

  • Tellio   Aug. 8, 2012, 6:13 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Sheri Edwards   July 24, 2012, 10:57 p.m.

    What I like best about your presentation is your emphasis on a continuum of engagement from lurking to collaborating and beyond.  I also like that you are putting bread on the waters, not selling a bill of educational goods.  So...I am trying to work with those local to me--faculty in my department, faculty interested in tech pedagogy, local teachers who want to know more about connecting and, more importantly, my fellow learners in the classroom.  

    Thanks for the inspiration. 

  • karen   Aug. 8, 2012, 10:07 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Tellio   Aug. 8, 2012, 6:13 a.m.

    Very true. I'm finding the amount of self-promotion around Connected Educator month a little distressing in some quarters. Connecting is about sharing!

  • Sheri Edwards   Aug. 8, 2012, 11:09 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Tellio   Aug. 8, 2012, 6:13 a.m.

    Thank you Tellio and Karen:  our goal is to show through our own stories how we, step by step, dipped into social media and now are swimiing with colleagues around the globe, hoping to synchronize as needed to collaborate and extend our classroom experiences. We hope the audience discovers easy ways to begin to add to the conversation- to give and get help, ideas, strategies, lesson links using many tools! (especially free ones).

  • Denise   Aug. 8, 2012, 3:57 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Sheri Edwards   Aug. 8, 2012, 11:09 a.m.

    Yes, thanks, Tellio and Karen! Sheri and I are certainly having fun connecting and sharing. We are growing as educators and presenters as we get ready for this webinar.

    I agree it's all about the sharing! I just read a great blog post by @hughtheteacher that reminded me of that: 

    http://hughtheteacher.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/share-it-maybe-share-it-and-choose2matter/

    Denise

  • Tellio   Aug. 14, 2012, 8:58 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Sheri Edwards   July 13, 2012, 5:40 p.m.

    I sure hope your presentation will be saved so that I can view it later.  I have had a baseball game scheduled for that day all summer.  Can't miss my league leading Reds.  Will it be recorded?

     

  • karen   Aug. 14, 2012, 5:27 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Tellio   Aug. 14, 2012, 8:58 a.m.

    Yes, we'll record it and post here.