Twitter Helps Teachers Develop Professional Learning Communities
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez We’ve got you covered for #back2school by taking a look at the conversation on #edtechchat.
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The Professional Learning Sweet Spot
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
For the better part of my educational career, I always referred to any type of learning to assist me as a teacher or administrator as professional development (PD). In March of 2009, I began to use Twitter, and it was at this time that I began to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN).
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Digital Learning Day: Social Media PD Best Practices #DLDay
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
10MT | #19: 10-Minute Teacher Interview with Researcher Laura Pasquini From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today is Digital Learning Day. This is a day for leaders and learners to level up digital learning. Best practices for hashtag maintenance and open learning.
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Professional Learning Communities: Using the 5Es to Give Teachers Agency and Maximize Productivity
Catlin Tucker
JUNE 14, 2021
This will be easier to do if school leaders harness the talent on their campuses and create systems that encourage teachers to learn with and from each other. Professional learning should not be relegated to a handful of all-staff training days. The members of the PLC determine the focus of their inquiry and learning.
Why Twitter Chats Matter
The Web20Classroom
MAY 29, 2014
As a co-founder of #edchat and a life-long learner I''ve had the opportunity to be a part of 100''s of Twitter chats over the past 5 years. Meeting New People -Social media is called that for a reason. Twitter chats expose you to colleagues and friends you might not otherwise engage with. I want to learn.
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Developing SEL Competencies Through Technology
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
Over the past few months, many kids turned to digital tools such as social media or games to pass the time. So much so that one has to wonder about the overall effect on a social and emotional level. The fact is that we don't know the extent of the impact on kids and might not get a firm grasp on this for years.
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How Twitter Can Power Your Professional Learning
More Verbs
JULY 14, 2015
Having a good network of other educators interested in the same topics and issues you are is a strong approach to powering your professional learning. Twitter and other social media can help feed that learning and build your network. So think of Twitter as a water well or line for your home.
Stop Ignoring Google+
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). Take Twitter for example. Now anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely love Twitter as a professional learning and networking tool.
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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray
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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Work Smarter, Not Harder
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 24, 2020
During my years as a teacher and principal, I would spend countless hours planning, researching, and attending professional learning events to hone my craft in order to become a better educator. Here is where I finally learned the biggest secret to working smarter, not harder, through the formation of a Personal Learning Network (PLN).
How Educators are Using the Exclusive Social Media App Clubhouse
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The new social media app Clubhouse is gaining traction across many industries as Influencers, celebrities , and marketing professionals are heading to the app to connect and collaborate. (If Like Twitter, Clubhouse provides a space to connect with like minded individuals and groups, expanding your professional learning network.
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Learning and growing as educators
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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Breaking the Algorithm: How Flipboard and the Fediverse Empower Educators
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 27, 2025
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In todays world, algorithms dictate much of what we see online. In this episode, William Coach Jeffery shares how tools like Flipboard and the Fediverse enable educators to take control of their professional learning and curate content that truly matters.
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How Twitter Can Power Your Professional Learning
EdTech Magazine
JULY 14, 2015
By Matt Renwick Overloaded with Twitter? Stem your tweet flow with advice from Principal Matt Renwick.
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7 Tips for Using Social Media for Professional Development
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 20, 2016
Tell me if this sounds familiar: With the 2016 New Year, you resolved to build your Professional Learning Network –finally, to stop living in the 20th century where your world revolved around a sticks-and-bricks building, a landline phone, and the mailbox. Only accept or seek friends who are in your professional area of interest.
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Leading in a Remote Learning World
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 19, 2020
So many resources are being shared daily on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. You can either lurk and learn or develop your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) to farm the best ideas and strategies that are actually working in similar demographics. This definitely applies now.
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Why Connect?
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. When and why did you decide to get involved on Twitter?
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Navigating the Waters of Teacher Social Media
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Teacher Social Media has had a powerful positive effect on Brent Gilson's professional growth. That’s the plus, he says, but there are also the minuses, including too-safe and comfortable conversations, edu-celebrity, and frequent failure to give credit where it is due.
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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer
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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Building Momentum
A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 6, 2010
Let me begin by saying that I was absolutely honored that various members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) and the greater educational community reached out to me to address administrators looking to embrace social media, plan an educational technology conference at my school, and discuss leadership in the digital age.
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Relevant Leadership for Today's Schools
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
The catalyst for a significant portion of this growth was my embracement of social media as a powerful leadership tool. For me social media opened the door to a variety of pathways to enhance my ability to lead a comprehensive high school is a way that was more relevant, meaningful, and impactful. Leadership 2.0
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Methods and tools to strengthen teacher collaboration and raise student achievement
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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Engaging Social Media for Educators
MIND Research Institute
JANUARY 15, 2019
In our latest episode, Brian welcomes Senior Content and Brand Specialist Calli Wright to the podcast for a discussion on how educators can get more out of social media by taking a purposeful approach. 20 Texas Education Leaders to Follow on Twitter. The Ultimate Guide to Twitter. Thanks for listening to the podcast!
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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE
The Web20Classroom
AUGUST 19, 2014
Ask any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digital tools as a means to connect with educators and students worldwide. My book, The Relevant Educator ships today. Enter Corwin Press and the Connected Educators Series.
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Class Tech Integrate
JUNE 20, 2018
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? Step 1: #Hashtags Find hashtags that apply to what you want to learn about.
Learning Never Stops
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 30, 2019
When it is all said and done, the best experiences are ongoing and job-embedded so that the needed support, application into practice, feedback, and accountability for growth lead to actual changes to teaching, learning, and leadership. So, what does meaningful professional learning look like?
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My Island View
APRIL 3, 2017
A lingering general question hanging over the heads of all has been what effect does social media have on our society? That answer has never been so evident as it has been today as social media tools have been placed directly in the hands of the President of the United States, as well as foreign operatives.
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A Year to Remember, A Year to Reflect: Pandemic Instruction
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. He can be found on Twitter @T4edtech and on his YouTube Channel Transformative Edtech. Feeling Overwhelmed.
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Online Classes! On Your Schedule
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 23, 2021
Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. social media. digital citizenship.
Adapting, Balancing, and Collaborating in Mentor Public Schools
Digital Promise
APRIL 7, 2017
Externally, it’s clear social media is a key part of the collaboration within the Mentor community. ” Keep up on Twitter with the League at #DPLIS , the League meeting at #LISMentor , and the great work happening in Mentor Public Schools at #OnceACard.
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9 Ways to Upgrade Professional Learning in Your District
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.
@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 6, 2017
A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter handle: @jcorippo. on Corippo is the Chief Innovation Officer for CUE, leading CUE’s professional learning throughout California and Nevada.
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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions
Tom Murray
JANUARY 12, 2016
Commit to Personalized Professional Learning. The top-down, one-size-fits-all, sit-and-get, hours-based accountability model for professional development that has reigned prevalent in districts for decades, according to recent research studies, simply a waste of time and money. But how does the community know?
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A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 4, 2018
The reaction to Learning Transformed has been truly humbling. Tom Murray and I have watched many book studies and Twitter chats unfold since the release of the book in June of 2017. Although not a required reading, the content for this course expands upon the book, Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today.
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Learning Transformed #LT8Keys
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 28, 2017
Social media had to be blocked for all and I, for one, wasn’t going to waste any of my precious time using it professionally or personally. Learning spaces had to conform to the perceived rule of law in education. The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. We can no longer wait.
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Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer All Educators New, No-Cost Professional Learning Resources
eSchool News
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, December 16, 2021) — As school systems nationwide begin to look towards Winter Break, Discovery Education and select social impact partners present curated professional learning resources at no cost to support educators’ continued professional learning.
Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Professional Growth
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 8, 2013
To put it bluntly, leaders feel that they either do not have, or cannot find, the time to attend professional learning opportunities due to this tsunami of work that comes at the sacrifice of meaningful growth and development. They are able to follow their specific learning passions by connecting with like-minded individuals.
The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Early exposure to technology can help children develop digital literacy skills. Importance of Professional Learning Network (PLN) 00:02:11:22 – 00:02:34:20 Debbie Tannenbaum discusses the importance of a PLN and how it has enriched her career.
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Preservice Teacher Virtual Co-Op Program
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 14, 2019
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Sam Fecich runs a virtual co-op program for her preservice teachers. This program not only helps her preservice teachers learn while doing authentic work, but it helps teachers get help for their classrooms. What a great idea!
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12 Ideas from the End of School That Work All Year Long
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 21, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jillian DuBois talks about her end of the school year and from the conversation we have twelve inspiring ideas for classrooms everywhere including: How to Use the element of surprise in learning. Resources Mentioned in This Episode. I love these stories.
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8 Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 2, 2018
Steve Dembo on episode 222 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A pioneer in the field of educational social networking, Dembo was among the first to realize the power of blogging, podcasting, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 Twitter: @teach42.
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A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 7, 2018
With an array of social media tools at our disposal, every educator should aspire to be the storyteller-in-chief. Once I started drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid back in 2009 I quickly learned the error of my ways. The stories I accessed on Twitter inspired me to be better.
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194 Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social
Edsurge
JUNE 21, 2017
The enthusiasm shared by educators who understand that social media will forever impact their lives and practice is very reminiscent of the vibe expressed by dot-commers two decades ago during the first wave of the Internet boom—this is a very good thing. I’ve served as both a journalist and participant within each movement.
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The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 31, 2018
Jodie Pierpoint on episode 243 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn about this program, how you can join in, and how you can become a better mentor. Twitter: @jodiepierpoint. Jody: It is. Jodie resides outside of Columbus, Ohio.
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