This document discusses the importance of sharing and accountability in professional learning communities. It argues that sharing allows educators to connect with each other and learn from one another. When educators share their work openly online, it fosters collaboration, reflection on teaching practices, and continuous learning and improvement. However, oversharing can also bring risks, so educators must find the right balance of autonomy, connections, and transparency that works for their situation. Overall, creating a culture of trust and open sharing holds educators mutually accountable in a natural way.

1. Sharing = Accountability
And quite frankly,
the real secret to
success
DEaN SHAREski
ETMOOC
January, 2013

2. This is me

3. This is me

4. This is me

5. This is me

6. This is me

7. This is me

8. This is me

9. This is me

10. This is me

11. This is me

12. This is me

13. This is me

14. @shareski
Dean@shareski.ca
shareski.ca

17. “...there is no word
for
"accountability"
in Finnish.”

18. “Accountability is
what's left when you
take out
responsibility.”

20. “I wish we could stop
using the word
"accountable" and
instead talk about
"responsible". It
would make all the
difference.”

21. Things you never see

22. “Distrust is an
expensive vice”
Dave Weinberger “Too Big To Know”

23. From: Royan Lee

24. How is your organization
responding the the issues
of improving education?

25. Beyond the Training Model

26. Beyond the PLC
“A professional learning community
(PLC) is an extended learning
opportunity to foster collaborative
learning among colleagues within a
particular work environment or field. It is
often used in schools as a way to
organize teachers into working groups.”

28. Forced

29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/48556423@N00/3371300279
Prescriptive

30. Group work isn t for everyone

31. “Bringing smart people
together is an ancient
and effective technique
for developing ideas. The
Net also lets smart
people connect and
communicate. But the
Net brings people
together in new and
occasionally weird
configurations—a
weirdness that is now
being reflected in how
expertise works....”

32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6577675635/
Data Driven

33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplemattfish/3020016417/
Lack of Time

34. Learn
Share

36. Sharing: The Moral Imperative
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=610

38. What, if any are your
obligations to share
beyond your students?

39. What could/should
you share?

40. With Whom?

41. What are the dangers?

42. What are the benefits?

43. Can I find
your best work online?

44. Can I find any of
your best work online?

45. The Myth of Easy

46. Is Over Sharing a Thing?

47. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990790,00.html

48. http://ideasandthoughts.org/2008/11/14/should-i-share-less-or-should-you-filter-more/

49. “Goodness, share whatever you like. I’ll take care of
filtering on this end.
p.s. I’m not one of your YouTube subscribers (I
subscribe to something like one channel) but I would
definitely watch you hitting golf balls across a frozen
lake.”
Stephen Downes
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2008/11/14/should-i-share-less-or-should-you-filter-more/

50. The Fear of Publishing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelmontes/4762384399

51. Critique & Civil Discourse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielavladimirova/4139350871

52. “Some of the comments on
YouTube make you weep for the
future of humanity just for the
spelling alone, never mind the
obscenity and the naked hatred.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570810,00.html#ixzz2IMWyUyNK

54. The Long Tail of Learning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail

55. Find Your Voice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billselak/2082535909/

56. Links

57. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
Curation

59. Open Classrooms

60. Encourager

61. http://blogush.edublogs.org
http://cogdogblog.com
How To

63. Creations

64. http://sarathibeault.wordpress.com/
http://jdevarona.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/today-i-sucked/
Self Reflection

66. Have a Discussion

67. blogging was the cheapest, most risk-
But
free investment I could have made of
my personal time into my job. You start by writing
down things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget. And then
you start trying new things just so you can blog about them later, picking them apart,
Periods of stagnancy
and dialoging over them with strangers.
in your blogging start to correspond to
periods of stagnancy in your teaching. You
start to muse on your job when you’re stuck in traffic, in line for groceries, that sort
That transformation has been
of thing.
nothing but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspot
blog.
Dan Meyer
@ddmeyer

70. Recommendations:
• More Autonomy
• More Connections
• More Sharing

71. Autonomy Connections Sharing
http://suewaters.com/2013/01/18/learning-through-blogging-as-part-of-a-connectivist-mooc/

72. http://fryed.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/the-power-of-visible-learning/

73. http://fryed.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/the-power-of-visible-learning/

74. http://www.flickr.com/photos/khokanson/188856360

75. Connecting http://www.flickr.com/photos/khokanson/188856360
Educators to
their greatest
resource...

76. Connecting http://www.flickr.com/photos/khokanson/188856360
Educators to
their greatest
resource...
EACH OTHER

77. If we create cultures of
trust and sharing,
accountability is built in,
not contrived or imposed,
it just is.