1. Features of Educator’s PLN (Personal Learning Network): (can
sign in using yahoo account, facebook account or google account
Access to many videos to use during professional development
Webinar events for professional development and use in the
classroom
Edchat to post a question
Leaderboards list the top videos, top blogs, and top discussions
Most recent blog is: Using Digital Common Formative
Assessments to save time and make the process more efficient
for teachers. The article suggests using google docs and edmoto
as two resources to do this. Written by Benjamin Darr – explains
how the different technologies can help support
teaching/learning.
http://edupln.ning.com/
Use of Google Docs to survey teachers to provide feedback about
thoughts and ideas regarding how they handle some of the
challenges and improve Intervention Blocks. The survey form
allows you to have paragraph text as answers, multiple choice,
etc. and is easy to develop and use. There were only 5 questions
and I had them provide input in paragraph choice. An e-mail
comes back to me with a link providing all of the responses. It’s a
little hard to follow online, but I printed it out to get read it.
Thinkfinity Integration Framework and Trainers Guide, Thousands
of lessons plans and resources for educators. Free online
interactive games and activities to teach and reinforce learning.
http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Mind/Shift – How we will learn - is another excellent site to learn
about current and future trends with technology. There are
interesting and thought provoking articles that help us explore
the future of learning. The digital media center helps create
media for instructional purposes.
http://mindshift.kqed.org/