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Bobby Dodd
Principal
Gahanna Lincoln High School
April 7th, 2015
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Working In Isolation
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• I can demonstrate how professional
development through technology
increases my growth as an educator by
using resources discussed today.
• I can utilize technology tools to help
other educators grow professionally.
LEARNING TARGETS
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• You can. But if you really want to grow
you need technology
• Utilize technology at conferences to
extend your learning, find others who
have similar backgrounds and class
settings.
Why Can’t I Just Go To Conferences?
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• Easy to use
• Quick and convenient
• You help others while helping yourself
• Not a “one-time deal” like many
conferences
• Personal Learning Networks
Using Technology for PD has many
Benefits
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• You have to want to get better and grow
• You need to embrace:
1. Connecting
2. Collaborating
3. Confidence
4. Creativity
Mental Preparation
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• Search blog posts and articles from different
sources all over the world about any topic.
• Posts can be shared by email, Twitter,
Facebook, text message or others.
• Stay up to date on current events in education.
• Share information and posts with your staff,
parents, stakeholders, students
• Narrow your topic search to your vision or
personal goals.
Zite
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• Professional development all day long!
• Authors, speakers, educators, policy
makers sharing ideas and thoughts
• 140 characters, links, images, videos,
chats
• Twitter Homepage
• Twitter Chats
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• Find boards based on your interests
• Create your own board and “pin” images,
articles, infographics to your board
• Create boards for yourself, students,
parents, stakeholders
• Pinterest Homepage
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• Speaking/texting tool to use to interact
with educators from all over the world.
• Book chats, extension of Twitter chats,
extension of conferences.
• Download the app and search for users.
• Sometimes its nice to hear people’s
voices.
Voxer
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• Express your views, talk about your students
and staff, share with stakeholders
• Follow other blogs by using tools like bloglovin’
– track your favorite blogs
• Create a blog using any tool (Wordpress is a
good platform) and share with anyone you can.
• How do I start a blog? Don’t over think it, Just
Do It! Use others as inspiration
Blogging
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• Providing professional development for you and your
staff.
• Record your voice and screen shots via video for your
staff, students, parents and yourself.
• I use Jing by TechSmith. Screencast-O-Matic is also a
good resource as well SnagIt
• Great tool to use to give users step-by-step instructions
so they can view whenever they want as many times as
they want.
• Its an easy way to share PD with others.
Screencasts
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• Create your magazine with articles and
posts that interest you.
• Share the magazines with others so they
can see what your reading.
• Similar to Zite, but this tool collects your
favorites into magazines.
• Great way to collect resources for PD
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YouTube
• One of the most under utilized use of
professional development.
• Search for any anything that you may want to
see if someone has made videos for.
• Ex) Flipped Staff Meetings and examples of
flipped staff meetings
• Find sources of information already created that
you can share with staff, students, and parents
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Websites
• Not to be forgotten, but educational websites
are one of the most valuable sources of PD.
• Education Week, Discovery Education, and
Read Write Think have areas that focus on PD
for all types of educators.
• Track your sites so you can share with others;
create Favorites and share with other staff
members.
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• Utilizing the tools mentioned in this
session will help you create a PLN.
• How do I get a PLN? Once you begin
using the tools and sharing, it will create
itself.
• Growing yourself professionally has
never been this easy.
Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)
Bobby Dodd
Principal
Gahanna Lincoln High School
Twitter: @bobby__dodd
Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://glhsprincipal.blogspot.com
Voxer: @bobby__dodd
