Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2018

the summer break is, and that it’s also a great time to engage with colleagues in professional learning experiences not available during the school year. GoFundMe – A broader crowdfunding platform that leverages the strength of your personal network and social media.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Finding time to engage in professional learning can present a challenge for educators. So how can educators engage in professional learning and find time to connect with other educators, when schedules and responsibilities make finding extra time difficult? Social Media.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is happening at the US policy level with the coronavirus health crisis? He is most passionate about creating cultures of innovation where teachers are empowered to create the types of learning experiences today’s modern learners need to thrive.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I have worked with ISTE in a number of other service and professional learning roles and currently am serving as one of ISTE’s Community Leaders. ISTE also has invited us to reflect on what it means to be part of an online professional learning network. My students tell me that they appreciate my efforts in this area.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

.” With a system of micro-credentials that reflects educators’ needs and goals, educators will be empowered to chart their personalized paths of professional learning.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 12, 2016

The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades. A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Nothing more.

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Neo LMS

JULY 5, 2022

When it came to professional development, in the absence of being together in the physical space, we had to explore and learn what worked the best. Leveraging the right digital tools and spaces, we were able to keep learning going and continue to build our professional learning communities.

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edWeb.net

MAY 3, 2017

edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner ! I’m the founder of edWeb.net and had just started our social network for educators. Time well spent. Thank you to both of you.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 28, 2016

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware of more organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. All of these organizations are shifting the needle and rocking professional learning nationwide. EdCamp Foundation. URL: www.edcamp.org. URL: www.iste.org.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2021

In this post, we will discuss 6 reasons why you might want to create your own blog or podcast. For more information on this topic, please visit our blog at www.BuildYourEDUBrand.com. Why should you create a Blog or Podcast? So you want to create a blog or podcast this year? To Build a Professional Learning Network.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2021

In this post, we will discuss 6 reasons why you might want to create your own blog or podcast. For more information on this topic, please visit our blog at www.BuildYourEDUBrand.com. Why should you create a Blog or Podcast? Click Here to Download Poster So you want to create a blog or podcast this year?

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Class Tech Integrate

JUNE 20, 2018

This post is week 2 of 8 in the 8 Weeks of Summer Blog Challenge for educators from HotLunchTray.com. The most important/impactful professional learning I have ever participated in was developing my own Personal Learning Network (PLN) through Twitter. and how on earth are you doing professional learning with Twitter?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). ” If your school has an LMS, consider whether you can make the learning and teaching jobs more flexible and differentiated by providing a schedule of all work. More on Social Media.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2019

During her presentation “Measuring and Sustaining Professional Learning Through Micro-Credentials,” Odelia Younge, senior project director for educator micro-credentials at Digital Promise, explained the key elements of micro-credentials, how they work, and what differentiates them from other professional development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. So many of us are exhausted. See the course 10.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 11, 2018

Continuous, effective professional learning can help teachers and administrators improve teaching and learning, but research shows traditional forms of professional development have become expensive and ineffective. This trend is disrupting traditional models for professional development.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As advocates of blended learning, Tiffany and I explore both the pitfalls and potential of integrating technology into classrooms. If you are part of a professional learning community, the questions below are designed to facilitate a conversation–in person or online–about the issues discussed in this episode of The Balance.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

From my point of view educators become quickly attached to one specific social media tool as their go to source for his/her Personal Learning Network (PLN). Now anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely love Twitter as a professional learning and networking tool. blog posts) and lurk for a little bit.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 9, 2015

I have been really thinking about the idea of using social media to make local impact, not just global. A little realization I had this morning when I received a comment on my blog post, “ Does Brainstorming Lead to Innovation? That’s the power of a blog. So what if we were to do this?

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 28, 2010

What I really enjoyed was there were so many people there that I knew because of social media. Members of my PLN (Personal Learning Network), PLC (Professional Learning Community), colleagues, whatever you want to call them, (I call them all friends) were there sharing their learning with not only the new teachers, but with me as well.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and his team pioneered the use of social media as a powerful campaign tool. It’s easy to forget, given how commonplace the use of social media is today, that back in 2008. But Obama’s use of mobile devices and social media changed political campaigns forever.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Professional learning in many districts must undergo radical reform, from a model that’s outdated and ineffective to one that’s personal, empowering, and owned by the learner. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Invest time in professional learning—not managerial tasks. Simon Sinek.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. Christian Miraglia is a recently retired 36 year educator and now Educational Technology Consultant at t4edtech where he also blogs. Feeling Overwhelmed.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Even in schools outside of the Verizon Innovative Learning network, coaches reported that they were valued more by teachers and administrators than prior to the pandemic. Sutter Middle School in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach uses the district-adopted LMS for professional learning.

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Tom Murray

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Personalized Professional Learning. In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Budget and Resources.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I got on Twitter in 2009, which was an accomplishment in itself as I had previously convinced myself that I would never use social media as I didn’t have the time nor saw any value in it. As my focus shifted from communication to learning that is when I saw unlimited potential. We don’t know what we don’t know. And if so, how?

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2017

Social media’s popularity means educators have a number of avenues to develop their professional learning networks and learn from one another. Blogging gives educators a platform to share best practices, pose questions to their peers, and explore new ideas about teaching and learning.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 20, 2012

In prep for the podcast, I created a little tutorial on how to create an interest list on Facebook to leverage Facebook for professional learning. I''ve blogged about Facebook for professional learning in the past, but I think the recent addition of interest lists to Facebook makes this endeavor even easier.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 19, 2011

If you''re reading this post, I''m going to assume you are an active reader of blogs or Twitter or both. Are you also leveraging Facebook for your professional learning? Many of the educators and educational organizations you follow through Twitter or on blogs are also maintaining pages on Facebook.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It was a challenge for a department of two people to do this for 159 counties with 181 schools districts, and only 29 social studies supervisors in the state. They built an online professional learning program that uses the edWeb.net platform in combination with webinars and 14 virtual specialists in social studies at all grade levels.

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The Thinking Stick

APRIL 17, 2023

In addition to her love of librarianship and professional development, she maintains several social media channels and moderates a professional learning network called RGV Library Squad which earned her the Texas Library Association Media Virtual Presence Award. You can connect with Karina Q.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 19, 2015

One way to do this is to take a look back at what it was like for educators before the advent of social media. Teachers can seek out experts via edWeb.net , Edmodo , Facebook , Twitter , Google+ , Skype , Pinterest , and other social media and educational websites. Follow him on Twitter @newteacherhelp.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

It occurs to me that so many of my best ideas come from the blogs of others. As often as not, those blogs live outside of the school library world. In no particular order, here’s a very personal selection of blogs/bloggers I couldn’t live without. Cult of Pedagogy is far more than a blog.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Social media is ever-evolving, although, as of late, some see it as de-evolving. As an educator, I was an early adopter and advocate for social media as a tool for professional collaboration, and development. Twitter took me from tweeting to blogging, to podcasting, and finally to authoring two books.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2014

But if you ask teachers who have never used a social network, blog, or mobile device for learning in their classrooms to discuss connected education, you are likely to be met with blank stares, furrowed eyebrows and shrugged shoulders. Enter Corwin Press and the Connected Educators Series. According to DeWitt, we can.

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