Debbie Campbell is a connected educator I interviewed on May 29th. She is the author of The Curious Educator-Blog. She is serving as the Communications Director and Instructional Technologist at a comprehensive high school in Texas. We had a great time connecting and discussing how she became a connected educator, and her advice for educators looking to be more connected.
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Wow! That was so much fun! What a great learning experience! I watched several YouTube videos on how to be part of a chat successfully. I chose a book chat for Start. Right. Now. by Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, Jimmy Casas. They also wrote What Connected Educators Do Differently. Promptly at 5:00 I logged onto TweetDeck - #startrightnow. I was so nervous, I was sure I was not going to remember all the tips from the YouTube videos. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I answered every question, and I remembered to paste in #startrightnow at the end of every tweet. I even retweeted others exceptional tweets with positive note. To have a few of my thoughts validated with a like or a retweet was exciting. When Jeff Zoul replied to a tweet of mine, I was like, WOW! I ran with my computer to my husband and tried to explain how exciting this was. I will most definitely be part of a chat again. LOVE!
As I strive to be a more connected educator, I realize just how important my Twitter, Facebook, Goggle Reader as my personal leaning networks. Participating in learning communities is a shift I have made to being sharing my insights, questions, ideas, and to learn. And participate we must, if we are to fully understand the implications of these shifts at the curriculum, classroom, school, or systems level (Richardson & Mancabelli, 2011). It is important or me as a teacher to have these PLNs to help them better navigate their online activity. Encouraging students o have learning communities they can be apart of for their education and later their professional career is essential.
Safe Ethical effective tools for PLNs (Richardson & Mancabelli, 2011)
Great People who share on Twitter for me are:
Being a Connected Educator is about finding those who share ideas about topics you are interested in, areas you need more information about, or you are looking for a new perspective on something you've been teaching for 15 years. Seeking people out in your PLNs that share the same curriculum is a great start. You have the great wide world to share and collaborate with. Jump in! |
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