How do we define "teacher"? In a world that more connected than ever before, how to leverage this for learning? This keynote will share some powerful examples of how learners and teachers from around the world are benefiting from these connections and challenge you to consider why you might need to share too. Shared on October 25,2011 for the NorthEast Teachers' Association Convention.

1. Who’s Your Teacher?
Why Sharing
Matters
Dean Shareski
NESD Teachers’ Convention
October 25, 2011

2. Who Am I?

3. Golfer
Husband/Father
Teacher
Who Am I?
Sharer
Learning Consultant Learner

4. shareski.ca
shareski@gmail.com
@shareski

5. #nesdsharing

6. #nesdsharing
http://bit.ly/nesdsharing

7. #nesdsharing
http://bit.ly/nesdsharing
http://www.slideshare.net/shareski/

8. Everything I Needed to Learn,
I Learned in Kindergarten

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedish/1451107638/
http://soccerlens.com/files/2009/05/6ben-johnson.jpg
Play Fair

10. Put things
back
where you
found
them

11. Flush

12. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some

13. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some

14. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some

15. Take a nap every afternoon

16. Take a nap every afternoon

17. Take a nap every afternoon

18. Take a nap every afternoon

19. Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little
seed in the Styrofoam
cup: the roots go down
and the plant goes up
and nobody really
knows how or why, but
we are all like that

20. When you go out in the world, watch out
for traffic, hold hands and stick together

21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/motrenko/169594714/
Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word
you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK

22. Share Everything

24. Before 2005
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659

25. Before 2005

26. Before 2005

28. After 2005

29. The Blog

30. My first comment

32. 1,125 50,032 578
11,507 243 2,463

34. Can I find your best
work online?

39. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4766403166

41. “if there is no sharing,
there is no teaching”
David Wiley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48442335@N04/4440857838

42. Do you have an ethical
obligation to share?
To whom do you have that
obligation?

43. Should I share?
With who?

45. “I just put it up there”

48. “There’s
something
profoundly
selfing in not
sharing” Jeff Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/5379897478/

49. My Learning Project

54. My Teaching Staff

61. 2 Billion
Predators

62. 2 Billion
Teachers

64. What Happens When We Share?

65. “One simple idea, people took the time to
share a response, one massive global project.”
Pernille Ripp
Elementary Teacher
West Middleton Elementary
Madison, WI

66. “Bullying is a very large issue here in
Canada, what about in your country?”
Bill Belsey
Bill Belsey
Elementary Teacher
Cochrane, AB

67. “Resume and
“I wrote a blog post titled,
References Available Upon
Request”.
Andy Marcinek
Instructional Technologist
Burlington High School
Burlington, MA

68. Professor
University of South
Alabama
Mobile, AL

69. "Commenting on
blogs is as important
as blogging." William Chamberlain
Professor
University of South
Alabama
Mobile, AL
Elementary Teacher
Noel Elementary School
Noel, MO

70. "Commenting on
blogs is as important
as blogging." William Chamberlain
Professor
University of South
Alabama
Mobile, AL
“The impact has
been phenomenal
for my students
Elementary Teacher
and the kids”
Noel Elementary School Dr. John Hadley
Noel, MO

71. “Forget the icebreakers
...learn to share.”
John Reider
High School Teacher
Bayside Secondary School
Belleville, ON

72. “...just like tossing a pebble into a quiet pond. We have no idea how far
the ripples will travel and we have no idea how other educators, and more
importantly, how other students will benefit.”
Brian Metcalfe

73. Retired Educator
Winnipeg,MB
“...just like tossing a pebble into a quiet pond. We have no idea how far
the ripples will travel and we have no idea how other educators, and more
importantly, how other students will benefit.”
Brian Metcalfe

74. Retired Educator
Winnipeg,MB
Laura Stockman
10 Years Old
Buffalo, NY
“...just like tossing a pebble into a quiet pond. We have no idea how far
the ripples will travel and we have no idea how other educators, and more
importantly, how other students will benefit.”
Brian Metcalfe

75. Retired Educator
Winnipeg,MB
Laura Stockman
10 Years Old
Buffalo, NY
Chris Harbeck
Sargent Park Elementary
Winnipeg, MB
“...just like tossing a pebble into a quiet pond. We have no idea how far
the ripples will travel and we have no idea how other educators, and more
importantly, how other students will benefit.”
Brian Metcalfe

76. Why Share?

77. To Build Community

80. Professional
Responsibility

81. “To work with colleagues in
mutually supportive ways and
develop effective professional
relationships with members of
the educational
community.”

82. The Access Principle
“A commitment to the value and quality of research
carries with it a responsibility to extend
the
circulation of such work as far as possible
and ideally to all who are
interested in it and all
who might profit
by it .”
(p. xii)
John Willinsky
as originally shared by the uber awesome @jonbecker http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/401478956

83. “All Means All”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/easystand/4195086125/

84. To Reciprocate

86. Because We’re Lazy

88. Because Reinventing
Wheels is Dumb

92. To Model for our
Students

93. Sharing my work online has become a huge part
of the way I learn. Those connections make it
possible for me to gain a bigger audience,
which means, more feedback and more
learning. A lot more people are finding me now.
Mark Klassen
Adapted from Will Richardson

94. Sharing my work online has become a huge part
of the way I learn. Those connections make it
possible for me to gain a bigger audience,
which means, more feedback and more
learning. A lot more people are finding me now.
Mark Klassen
Adapted from Will Richardson

95. Because You
Never Know

96. The Costanza Wallet

98. To Make Something
Better

106. To Learn

107. “Why would we do that?”

108. “because we can learn from them”

110. Learning is Social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4285018251

111. What To Share and Where to Share

123. Where ?

124. How ?

125. When ?

127. TIME ?

128. I GOT NOTHIN’

129. NOT MY JOB

130. Thanks for letting me share
Dean Shareski
shareski@gmail.com
ideasandthoughts.org
cc licensed flickr photo by Jeffry B: http://flickr.com/photos/obie099/2259545710/
twitter.com/shareski