Building Your Own Professional Development Using Technology
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The document outlines strategies for educators to enhance their professional development through various technology tools and personal learning networks (PLNs). It emphasizes the importance of connecting, collaborating, and sharing resources via platforms such as Twitter, Pinterest, and blogging, ensuring continuous growth and engagement. The author, Bobby Dodd, provides practical examples and tools to help educators integrate these technologies into their learning practices.
Building Your Own Professional Development Using Technology
- 1. Bobby Dodd Principal Gahanna Lincoln High School April 7th, 2015
- 2. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. Working In Isolation
- 3. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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
- 4. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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?
- 5. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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
- 6. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • You have to want to get better and grow • You need to embrace: 1. Connecting 2. Collaborating 3. Confidence 4. Creativity Mental Preparation
- 7. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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
- 8. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • Professional development all day long! • Authors, speakers, educators, policy makers sharing ideas and thoughts • 140 characters, links, images, videos, chats • Twitter Homepage • Twitter Chats Twitter
- 9. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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 Pinterest
- 10. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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
- 11. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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
- 12. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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
- 13. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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 Flipboard
- 14. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. 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
- 15. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. 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.
- 16. © 2015, Battelle for Kids. All Rights Reserved. • 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)
- 17. Bobby Dodd Principal Gahanna Lincoln High School Twitter: @bobby__dodd Email: doddb@gjps.org Blog: http://glhsprincipal.blogspot.com Voxer: @bobby__dodd