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Welcome to our May 2022 episode bursting with ideas for teachers wanting to grow in their professional practice this summer! We invite you to listen in and learn about Impactful Technology Use sessions the Georgetown ISD Digital Learning Team is offering this summer, ideas for building a Personal Learning Network (PLN), and resources you can always access from our Digital Learning Hub.
Harness the power of social media to build a more meaningful, inspired and connected coaching community for yourself! Don't forget to sign up for my FREE 21-Day Coaching PLN Challenge to boost your coaching community this summer! Find a transcribed version of this podcast and links to all the resources mentioned here in this week's accompanying blog post. Are you looking for more coaching inspiration? Get my newest blog posts, podcasts, special events and more delivered straight to your Inbox. Sign up here! And, if you want to a place to discuss the content from today's episode, join my Leading by Learning Facebook Community today and start a conversation. If you'd like more information about the sponsors for this podcast, visit My Favorite Things page and get deals and discounts on Skillshare, Canva, Kajabi, Flodesk and more! One last thing: Subscribe to my weekly newsletter called A Lit Life. I celebrate my literate life and share what I'm reading, writing, learning and loving in hopes it inspires your own daily practices, too!
Who do you turn to when you need to learn something new? The person sitting next to you? Your manager? A former colleague? By developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN), you can expand this list as wide as you like. On this week's GoodPractice Podcast, L&D consultant Fiona McBride joins Owen and Ross G to share her advice and experiences with her PLN. If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @FionaMcBride. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. Fiona's website is fionamcbride.com. The book Ross referenced was Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam, available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046 The Brene Brown 'marble jar' story is online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6442YcvEUH8 If you want to talk to a random Swede, dial +46 771 793 336. Details are here: https://www.theswedishnumber.com/ The paper Owen discussed was: Whiten, A., Allan, G., Devlin, S., Kseib, N., Raw, N., & McGuigan, N. (2016). Social learning in the real-world:‘over-imitation'occurs in both children and adults unaware of participation in an experiment and independently of social interaction. PloS one, 11(7), e0159920. Available online at: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0159920 And the autobiography of David Scott and Alexei Leonov was Two Sides of the Moon, available from: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Sides-Moon-David-Scott/dp/1480449237
New thinking and new approaches to professional development are gaining popularity among educators. Creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is one of these new ways to do PD. In this segment we explore the pros and cons (mostly pros) of developing a PLN for professional development. George Siemens is an educator and researcher on learning, technology, networks, analytics, and openness in education. Sheryl Nussbaum Beach is co-founder, of Powerful Learning Practice (http://plpnetwork.com/)and author of, The Connected Educator. Lynn Hilt is an Elementary school principal, K-6 technology integration coach and author of "The Principal's Post" blog.
Join us for this webinar with special guests Tim Wilhelmus and Brett Clark who shared tips and tools for building your Personal Learning Network (PLN) including ways to manage it once you get it started. They have co-created a fantastic Livebinder with resources to guide us every step of the way and will share their experiences and advice
Tim Wilhelmus and Brett Clark shared tips and tools for building your Personal Learning Network (PLN) including ways to manage it once you get it started. They have co-created a fantastic Livebinder with resources to guide us every step of the way and will share their experiences and advice.
Tim Wilhelmus and Brett Clark joined us and shared tips and tools for building your Personal Learning Network (PLN) including ways to manage it once you get it started. They have co-created a fantastic Livebinder with resources to guide us every step of the way and will share their experiences and advice. personal, professional, learning network, liveclass20, classroom 2.0 live, tim wilhelmus, brett clark, social media, twitter
This session is going to take participants on a journey consisting of four segments, which are: 1. Creating your own Personal Learning Network (PLN), 2. Motivating Faculty to expand their PLNs; 3. Mentoring Administrators about the value of PLNs and 4. Engaging Parents to construct PLNs. Upon completion, participant will be given the opportunity to begin to expand their own PLN. Keeping the conversation alive beyond the conference, participants will be encouraged to share what has been successful within their own learning networks so that all may benefit.
This session is going to take participants on a journey consisting of four segments, which are: 1. Creating your own Personal Learning Network (PLN), 2. Motivating Faculty to expand their PLNs; 3. Mentoring Administrators about the value of PLNs and 4. Engaging Parents to construct PLNs. Upon completion, participant will be given the opportunity to begin to expand their own PLN. Keeping the conversation alive beyond the conference, participants will be encouraged to share what has been successful within their own learning networks so that all may benefit.
This session is going to take participants on a journey consisting of four segments, which are: 1. Creating your own Personal Learning Network (PLN), 2. Motivating Faculty to expand their PLNs; 3. Mentoring Administrators about the value of PLNs and 4. Engaging Parents to construct PLNs. Upon completion, participant will be given the opportunity to begin to expand their own PLN. Keeping the conversation alive beyond the conference, participants will be encouraged to share what has been successful within their own learning networks so that all may benefit.