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This document discusses an educator's experience using social media for professional purposes. It outlines both successes and challenges, finding Twitter to be the most useful tool for staying connected to educational trends. The educator finds Delicious helpful for organizing websites used for instruction across multiple buildings. Moodle is noted as allowing self-paced learning but hindering interpersonal interaction. Current social media use includes Twitter, Google+, Classroom 2.0 and LinkedIn, with plans to create a Wix site over the summer.
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Teach Like You Tweet: Moving from I Teach to iTeach
Teach Like You Tweet: Moving from I Teach to iTeach
Social Media For Educator's: The Making of Erin's PLN
Social Media For Educator's: The Making of Erin's PLN
The Distance Learning Courses in my Teaching Practice
The Distance Learning Courses in my Teaching Practice
Social media harmer
- 1. + Building Social Media For Educators -J. Ken Harmer
- 2. + Successes with this course Expanding my professional and personal network Learning about and creating new ideas in my field…. …which assisted me with preparing long-term goals Helping me better understand the technology exposed to my students and opportunities presented to them
- 3. + Challenges Being exposed which invited unwanted followers and much more spam email Certain websites are blocked in our school district My colleagues and employer have access to my personal life My opinions may be used against me for current or future employment
- 5. + And the winner is…Twitter! Twitter gave me the most access to my professional interests. It wasn't a lot of information to process and gave me useful links every day TweetDeck would help me organize what topic I was interested in on any specific day
- 6. + Delicious Personal note: Last year our school was closed due to mold. We were split into three locations within the district. We will move back into our newly renovated school in September 2017. Since I teach in all three buildings everyday, delicious.com has been extremely helpful in organizing the websites I use for instruction. Twitter is currently the most useful for me because I can stay in touch with local, national and international trends and changes in education and my field of music
- 7. + Pro’s and Con’s of Moodle and Online Learning I enjoy going at my pace. I get stressed with deadlines I use Moodle in my classroom I have trouble finding time to create a page worth using in my classroom It supplements the Intrapersonal learner in me It hinders the Interpersonal learner in me
- 8. + My current collections of work: Twitter, Google+, Classroom 2.0, LinkedIn
- 9. + Works in progress…Wix I will use this site regularly with my students, but most sites I want them to access are blocked by my district. I can spend time this summer creating my site for next school year including: o Audio recordings o Current news stories in music o Tutorials