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S H I F T – A New Year's Resolution for 2012
As we return to the classroom in January we’re refreshed, renewed, and rarin’ to go, right? If you’ve been putting off shifting your classroom due to time constraints, fear, or confusion about what...
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Online Learning Communities: Encouragement Connects Us
Have you made the commitment to become a connected educator — a teacher or school leader who takes full advantage of digital tools and virtual networking to improve your practice and better prepare...
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Diving Deeply: Networks or Communities?
I’ve begun teaching an Additional Qualifications course for inservice teachers, about the integration of technology into their classroom practice. I’ve written about this new learning journey before,...
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Connected PD on a (Zero) Budget
School’s out for the summer and I finally have time to make my Google Reader a priority. While I was catching up on posts the other day, I found a few really interesting entries that got me thinking...
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The Power of PLNs: My Cover Tells a Story
Anyone who still doubts the power of a well-established personal learning network, or the importance of being a connected educator, need look no further than the cover of my new book: 180 Questions:...
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How Twitter Made a Bad Week Better
We came back to our Canadian elementary school after the holidays to a very uncertain labour situation, and the week finished with the chaos of a planned labour action cancelled by the courts at the...
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Twitter Chat on Standardized Testing
This twitter chat is now over. Please click here to read the transcripts from the chat. Thanks! PLP’s new Twitter 101 eCourse includes a live Twitter Chat experience. To give participants a true...
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Some Low-Cost Summer PD Ideas for Connected Educators
It’s almost Summer! If your students are anything like mine, you can sure feel it in the classroom. Contrary to popular opinion, most educators don’t have their summers off. However, if you’re like me,...
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Should We Unconnect from Our PLNs Over Summer Break?
I just finished participating in an #educoach chat. Topic for the evening: How to work with reluctant teachers from an instructional coach perspective. A large number of educators participated,...
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I am grateful for…
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I am taking some time to reflect on just how very fortunate I am. Since becoming a connected educator in 2011, my learning world has expanded beyond my...
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Thanks for a great year. Please consider voting today!
Dear PLN, It was my birthday recently and as a result I have been reflecting on my life’s accomplishments and projected goals for the future. As many of you know my professional passions are deeply...
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Social Media for School Leaders
When the World Wide Web made global computer-to-computer connections possible, the ability to link people together in true social networks was not far behind. The first popular “social circle” network,...
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S H I F T – A New Year's Resolution for 2012
As we return to the classroom in January we’re refreshed, renewed, and rarin’ to go, right? If you’ve been putting off shifting your classroom due to time constraints, fear, or confusion about what...
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Top Five Reasons to Join a Twitter Chat
I’ll never forget the first time I realized the power of participating on Twitter. I was attending a national conference for professional development and had signed up for a session with a fairly...
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