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The Connected Educator
ConnectCollaborateContribute
Let’s Focus on the Why
Skype Visit with some Connected Educators
1. Who are you?2. Where do your live?3. What is your position?4. What is your top reason for being a
connected educator?
What’s My Top Reason?
You Can Only Grow as Large as your container
Why is becoming Connected so Important?
We can’t give what we don’t own.
Who are you Creating?
We create ourselves drop by drop with every…
IntentionThoughtActionReaction
Consider This
Do those intentions, thoughts, actions and reactions tend to make you…
ExpandOr
Contract?
Our Trends as Individuals and as an Organization are:
The Direction of Our CreationIncluding vs. DivisionValuing vs. HierarchyInfinite vs. Zero SumEmpowering vs. Managing
Expanding vs. RestrictingInfluencer vs. CriticizerWe vs. Us and Them
ApathyBusy/Preoccupation
Anxiety/WorryOverwhelm
FearResistance
Anger
Default Creation Often Driven by
You’re doing to end up somewhere no matter what!
Work and the Rest of Your life:can they really be separated?
Becoming a living example of what you want to create for:
1. Yourself2. Your students3. Your family4. Your friends5. Your colleagues
Being Part of Something Bigger
Connecting yourself to others
Isn’t this ‘just more on our plate’?Weeding out the closet criteria:
Focus on Effectiveness, Quality, and Efficiency
• Is it required?• Does it expand?• Does it add quality?• Is it the most efficient and effective way?
Embed it into what you’re already doing
• By living it, it becomes part of what you do naturally• Authentic Learning for ourselves• Conscious choices about what we do and how we do it
What We Already Do, so Embed it!
• Plan• Communicate
• Create• Research• Investigate• Organize• Present• Display
To Become a Connected Educator, you must become a connected
learner
New to this? Start at the Top
• Connect• Collaborate• Contribute
A Large deep-sea fishing net that captures and pulls EVERYTHING to you.
Blogs, Facebook and Google+
Are oysters that contain both sand and pearls
Individual posts can be pearls
Edmodo, Wikispaces and Livebinders
Where the Cool Kids go to Share and Trade
PLN (Personal Learning Network)
Your galaxy…you choose your own stars and planets
Collaborative Organizations
Are Matchmakers
Now What?• Start SMALL
• Connect yourself before you can connect your learners.
• Choose your top 3 things• Focus on those for 10 minutes a day
Some Connection Choices
TwitterEdmodoWikispaces
Livebinders
BlogsLinkedinLet’s get into groups by tool preference and play!
