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Developing A Professional Presence Online. Cindy Duffy Director, Area IV LTC. Developing Professionally. Currently how are you collaborating with other professionals? How do you utilize your time online? How can you blend the two?. Personal Learning Network (PLN).
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Developing A Professional Presence Online Cindy Duffy Director, Area IV LTC
Developing Professionally • Currently how are you collaborating with other professionals? • How do you utilize your time online? • How can you blend the two?
Personal Learning Network (PLN) Personal – you design it for yourself Learning – it is about increasing your knowledge/changing your practices Network –structure that crosses at regular intervals & is knotted or secured at the crossings
Links can be found at - http://plncindy.wikispaces.com/INTC
Symbaloo A free visual bookmarking site that gives you access to anything you bookmark from any computer by just clicking on a tile. http://www.symbaloo.com http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/intc
DiigoSocial bookmarking websitehttp://www.diigo.com Organize your thoughts Tag – lists Highlight – sticky Share/learn with others Network Groups Community
Facebook Educators using Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/7036945291/ Beginning Teachers http://www.facebook.com/groups/2227299043/?ref=ts&fref=ts Survival Guide for Beginning Primary Teachers http://www.facebook.com/SurvivalGuideforPrimaryTeachers?ref=ts&fref=ts Illinois New Teacher Collaborative http://www.facebook.com/pages/Illinois-New-Teacher-Collaborative/239875594767?ref=ts
Twitter Used by people around the world. Twitter connects teachers to thousands of educators around the world with rich backgrounds and experiences that can contribute to professional growth. #ntchat They meet Wednesdays, 7pm EST. http://tweetchat.com/room/ntchat #edchat #teachchat #iled #iledchat @tesNewTeachers @intc
Pinterest Pinterest is a free virtual bulletin board where users pin videos and images captured from around the web. These images are then arranged into different categories on a user's board. Pins are also shared and searchable making thus Pinterest a great tool for virtual learning. Pins are also visible to other Pinterest users and one can easily see the board of others as well. INTC beginning teachers my PLN
Blogging Edublogs edublogs tutorial
Live Binders Example video
Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/beat/new-teacher-support Find advice, resources, and strategies to support new teachers and help them improve their craft. http://www.edutopia.org/groups/bridges-first-years-practice Group for new teachers and veterans to connect
Teaching with Soul The New Teacher Mentoring Project was created by Lisa Dabbs, creator of #ntchat Purpose is to To collaborate and find best practices To mentor and support new/pre-service teachers in K-12 and higher education institutes of learning worldwide for online and offline learning. To use the New Teacher Mentoring project to help you navigate through your first few years of teaching with a virtual mentor. http://www.teachingwithsoul.com/new-teacher-mentoring-project
Teachers Net Teachers.Net was founded on the principle of allowing teacher-users to contribute the content and direct site development and to utilize the Internet to harness the collective intellect and wisdom of the worldwide teaching communityhttp://teachers.net/mentors/beginning_teachers/
Schoology Learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content www.schoology.com
Online Resources for Beginning Teachers Cindy Duffy Director Area IV LTC