Tools & Practices for Autonomous Teacher Development

T O O L S A N D P R A C T I C E S F O R
A U T O N O M O U S O N L I N E T E A C H E R
D E V E L O P M E N T
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W H AT I S I T ? W H AT ’ S I T F O R ?
• a tweet
• a hashtag
• curation
• a social network
• a blog
• social bookmarking
• digital literacy
• a Facebook group
• connectivism
• PLN (personal learning network)

• the process of collecting, organising
and sharing. This process helps people
store and retrieve useful information.
Curation

• a collection of skills we need in order
to effectively participate in the
modern constantly connected world.
Digital literacy

• the process of saving a link to a useful
website and in doing so sharing it with
a network of people with similar
interests.
Social bookmarking

• a symbol # followed by a key word.
The keyword indicates the main
relevance of the message and also
helps you to search through messages
to ﬁd what is relevant to you.
#Hashtag

• a place on facebook that enables a
group of people to share and discuss
opinions and links to useful resources.
Facebook group

• a group of people you can
communicate and share resources with
on an informal basis in order to
develop and progress towards your
own personal learning goals.
PLN - Personal learning network

• a short message of 140 characters or
less. The message could be about
anything and can include links.
Tweet

• a simple website with pages arranged
in chronological order. Each page is
like a diary / journal entry. These are
usually used to share opinions and
experiences.
Blog

• a group of people connected together
and able to communicate through the
use of web based platforms and
applications.
Social network

• a theory of learning developed to
understand how people learn through
interaction with web based materials
and online social networks.
Connectivism

“ T E A C H E R S A R E L I K E
S H A R K S , …

“ . . . . . . . W H E N T H E Y S T O P
M O V I N G F O R WA R D T H E Y S TA RT
T O D I E . ”

H O W D O Y O U K E E P
M O V I N G F O R WA R D ?
http://tricider.com/brainstorming/NmxE

http://tricider.com/brainstorming/NmxE
Join or ‘Like’ a page or group on Facebook
Go to a conference
Take an online course
Follow educators on Twitter
Collect and curate online resources
Attend an online webinar
Subscribe to teaching websites
Do peer observation
Do action research
Read blogs by other teachers
Write my own teaching blog
Do a face to face course
Video record my lessons and watch them
H O W D O Y O U K E E P M O V I N G F O R WA R D ?

E V E RY T H I N G Y O U N E E D
T O K N O W T O K E E P
D E V E L O P I N G Y O U R T E A C H I N G
C A N B E F O U N D O N L I N E

Somewhere!
E V E RY T H I N G Y O U N E E D
T O K N O W T O K E E P
D E V E L O P I N G Y O U R T E A C H I N G
C A N B E F O U N D O N L I N E

B E C O M I N G
I N F O R M AT I O N L I T E R AT E

K N O W I N G H O W T O
I G N O R E T H E
I R R E L E VA N T

Twitter?

Scott Thornbury http://twitter.com/thornburyscott
Marc Prensky https://twitter.com/marcprensky
Luke Meddings http://twitter.com/LukeMeddings
Peter Travis http://twitter.com/English_Phrases
Ozge Karaoglu Ergen http://twitter.com/ozge
Sean Banville http://twitter.com/SeanBanville
Sue Lyon-Jones http://twitter.com/esolcourses
Russell Stannard http://twitter.com/russell1955
Nik Peachey http://twitter.com/NikPeachey
Marisa Constantinides https://twitter.com/Marisa_C
Global Educator Inst https://twitter.com/geiendorsed
T W I T T E R P E O P L E

J U S T F O L L O W
T W I T T E R

# H A S H TA G S
T W I T T E R
#elt
#tesol
#edtech
#edreform
#teﬂ
#K12
#CLIL
#ﬂipclass

A C C E S S I N G S T R E A M S O F
I N F O R M AT I O N
H T T P S : / / T W E E T D E C K . T W I T T E R . C O M /

A C C E S S I N G
S T R E A M S O F
I N F O R M AT I O N
H T T P S : / / W W W. FA C E B O O K . C O M /
I C T 4 E LT /

FA C E B O O K G R O U P S
H T T P S : / / W W W. FA C E B O O K . C O M / G R O U P S /

FA C E B O O K G R O U P S
Blog Posts of Teachers of English https://www.facebook.com/groups/
368056483336411
Teacher Voices: Professional Development https://www.facebook.com/
groups/teachervoices
Resources for English Teachers https://www.facebook.com/groups/
eslresources
Teachers Teaching Online https://www.facebook.com/groups/
TTOMOOC
English & ICT Learning Club https://www.facebook.com/groups/
388683847997504
Innovative Teachers of English https://www.facebook.com/groups/
InnovativeToE
NELTA https://www.facebook.com/neltanpl/

K N O W I N G H O W T O G E T T H E
I N F O R M AT I O N T O C O M E T O
Y O U .

C R E AT E Y O U R O W N N E W S PA P E R
PA P E R . L I

F I N D O U T W H AT O T H E R P E O P L E A R E
S AV I N G
D I E G O . C O M

L E A R N I N G H O W T O E VA L U AT E &
C AT E G O R I E S I N F O R M AT I O N I S A
C O G N I T I V E P R O C E S S .

C U R AT E A N D S H A R E T H E C O N T E N T
Y O U L I K E
S C O O P. I T

M O R E T H A N 2 5 0 0 A RT I C L E S
M O R E T H A N 1 3 0 0 F R E E D I G I TA L T O O L S
S C O O P. I T

M A K I N G I N F O R M AT I O N
I N T O K N O W L E D G E

U S E A N D R E F L E C T
I N T H E C L A S S R O O M

B L O G G I N G
H T T P : / / N I K P E A C H E Y. B L O G S P O T. C O . U K /
“ L E A R N I N G T O M A K E T H I N G S
C H A N G E S H O W W E U N D E R S TA N D
A N D C O N S U M E T H O S E T H I N G S …
W R I T I N G F O R A N A U D I E N C E I S
S P E C I A L … I T ’ S W R I T I N G W I T H
F E E D B A C K A N D
C O N S E Q U E N C E S . ”
Scott Rosenberg - Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What it’s Becoming and
Why it Matters.

B L O G G I N G
Why you should start a blog in your classroom: https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/start-classroom-blogging
Medium https://medium.com/
Blogger https://www.blogger.com
Staffrm http://staffrm.io/stories/discover
WordPress https://wordpress.com/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/

B E S T E LT B L O G S
B L O G G I N G

S O W H AT N E X T ?

Q U I C K T I P S
Make a speciﬁc time each day for you
Be selective
You don’t have to read all of anything
Make procrastination learning time
Do something with it
Enjoy it
Have a plan

H AV E A P L A N
Join or ‘Like’ 4 - 5 Pages or Groups on Facebook
Follow 10 educators on Twitter
Create your own RSS homepage and add 10 blog feeds
(Netvibes)
Read 1 blog post by a different teacher each day
Create a blog and write 1 post, plan the next 4
Create a curation site and add 1 new link each day
Take a course online (MOOC) and wrote about it
Attend an online webinar
Plan a teacher development session on what you have
learned

H O W T O . . .
• How to create a Facebook Page: http://youtu.be/
n4N0yyB6hE8
• Create a blog: http://
www.teachertrainingvideos.com/blogger/
• How to scoop.it: http://www.youtube.com/user/
TheScoopit/videos
• How to Diigo: http://youtu.be/2RC3uvzv4_8
• How to Twitter: http://youtu.be/lwxRK2cZ5rA

C O N N E C T I V I S T S T U D E N T S / T E A C H E R
Y O U T U . B E / X W M 4 I E F O O TA

H O W W I L L
O U R C H I L D R E N
L E A R N ?
T H E I M PA C T O F C O N N E C T E D
L E A R N I N G

D O W N L O A D T H I S P R E S E N TAT I O N

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