The document outlines the author's background and extensive experience in education, focusing on the integration of technology and social media for professional development. It emphasizes the importance of personal learning networks (PLNs) and offers various tools and project ideas for enhancing communication, collaboration, and content curation in the classroom. Additionally, it discusses digital storytelling and coding as vital skills in today's educational landscape.

2. About Me
• Ph.D. in C & I,
SLU, 2012
• B.A. & M.A.T. in
Ed Tech, Webster
University
• 20 total years in
education
• #GrandBabyChat

3. Research & Passion
Authentic integration
of technology into the
curriculum and the
use of social media for
informal professional
learning.

4. Communicate & Connect
• Personal Learning Network aka

5. PLN =
connections to
people and
resources, both
offline and online,
who enrich our
learning
http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Learning-Networks-Connections-Transform/dp/193554327X

6. Typical Teacher Network
by Alec Couros

7. The Networked Teacher

8. Socially Networked Teacher

14. anytime, anywhere learning
– expand your network

16. Findings
Favorite social media application to use
for informal professional development:
http://bettergraphic.com/free-and-paid-fonts-used-in-logos-of-popular-
brands/

17. Findings
Open-ended Themes - Why Twitter?
• Community
• Convenience
• Sharing
• Informal learning
• Professional improvement
• Isolation reduction

18. PLN – Personal Learning Network

20. Twitter basics:
• @ = speaking to
someone aka
“mention”
• # = a filter for topics

21. • Chats are scheduled events
• Occur weekly, monthly
• Usually have a topic
• Typically archived

25. …and because it’s not just about Twitter
• Remind – an easy way for your parents,
students, or staff to receive one-way text
messages. Think reminders, announcements,
kuddos!
• Skype – author chats
• Facebook – Edutopia, WeAreTeachers
• Edmodo – think Facebook for schools
• And…

27. Communicate by sharing the good!

28. Blogging
• Blogger
• WordPress
• Edublogs
• Kidblog
• Tumblr
• Weebly
• Google Sites

29. EdcampSTL is a FREE one-day conference
in the participant-driven, ‘unconference’ format.
#edcampstl – February 7, 2015
All are welcome to join us!

30. The next best thing to being wise
oneself is to live in a circle of those
who are. ~ C. S. Lewis

31. How have you used technology
to communicate or connect?
How have you used tech to
enhance your learning?
Inspired to try something new?

36. Projects by Jen
• O.R.E.O. Project
• Ho-Ho-Holiday Mystery
Skype of Holiday
Traditions
• Holiday Card Exchange
• St. Patrick’s Day Project
• Picture It –
collaborating to create
one unique piece of
artwork

38. Google Apps for Education

39. Digital Post-it Notes
Lino & Padlet
• Discuss, respond &
reflect
• Brainstorm
• Share research
• Categorize using
colors
• Collect & organize
• Take notes

42. Content Curation

43. Content Curation Categories
• Learning Management System – Edmodo
• Webpage, Wiki or Blog*
• Web Tools*
• Open Education Resources – Khan Academy
• Primary Source Material

44. Webpage, Wiki or Blog
• Google Sites
• Weebly
• Edublog
• Kidblog
• WordPress
• Blogger
• Wikispaces

45. Tools for Curation
• Diigo
• Evernote
• Pinterest & Educlipper (student friendly)
• Livebinders
• Symbaloo
• Scoop.it & Paper.li
• Bag the Web
• Feedly, Netvibes & Pocket

46. My Favorite Things
• Twitter
• Diigo
• Pinterest
• Wikispaces
• Feedly
• Evernote
• Pocket
• Newest favorite: Weebly – easy, peasy

47. • What are your favorite content curation
tools?
• What are your favorite collaboration tools?
• What tools are you curious about?
• Questions?

52. App Smashing
• The process of using
more than one app
to create a
project/product.
• Challenges students
to use higher level
thinking skills.

53. More mobile learning…
Interesting ways to use QR Codes in the
classroom

54. Project ideas w/ digital images
• Scrapbooks: ABCs, nature, literary character
• Motivational posters & Desktop backgrounds
• Create an online books
• Enhance poems
• Use images for presentations
• ThinglinkEDU to create interactive images

56. become a maker, a creator, an innovator
Hour of Code
"Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates
have all said that students should learn how to
code. It’s a skill that not only teaches you how to
work with computers, but also teaches you how
to think about solving problems with systems."
Coding resources

58. Digital Storytelling
“To address the most important issue first: there
is no such thing as digital storytelling. There’s
only storytelling in the digital age. . .Digital is
not the difficult part in digital storytelling.
Storytelling is.”
~ Jasper Visser

59. Digital Storytelling
Photoprompts – have student create their own

60. MakeBeliefsComix
• Illustrate a math problem
• Explain cause/effect
• Show a scientific process
• Use as storyboard
• Illustrate a vocabulary word

61. Create WordArt: Wordle, ABCYa, Tagzedo
• Create an “All About
Me”
• Summarize
• Analyze your writing
• Analyze famous
speeches or
documents
• Descriptions
• Guess the mystery
topic
Tons of wordcloud ideas by Jen Wagner

62. Digital Storytelling

63. Tellagami

66. Media & Digital Literacy
“… ten years ago, not one student in a
hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have
produced videos like this. It’s a whole new
skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly
necessary not simply from the perspective of
creating but also of comprehending video
communication today.” ~ Stephen Downes
10 Ideas for Classroom Video Projects

69. This Year I Will…

70. Thank you!
1. Write your ‘This Year I Will…” goal for
school year.
2. Have pic taken with holding goal.
3. Consider sharing on Instagram or Twitter
using #tyiw.
4. Place image where you will see on regular
basis.

71. Find me at:
Twitter: @debbiefuco
Blog: The Educators’ Café
Email: debbie.fucoloro@gmail.com