Podcast186: Building Professional Learning Communities with Educators Using Digital Tools
This podcast features is a recording of a featured presentation I shared at the 2007 EncycloMedia Conference in Oklahoma City on August 29th. Professional development is no longer limited by time and space constraints. Conversations and content now accessible via the Internet, the blogosphere, and podcasts are opening up amazing new possibilities for professional development and learning. In this session we’ll explore innovative ways educators around the planet are making connections, creating personal learning networks, and extending their educational knowledge bases. We’ll also look at ways school districts are using collaborative tools and technologies to provide blended professional development to better meet the learning constraints as well as opportunities of our educational and informational environments.
SHOWNOTES:
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Resources and Links (shared as a public Google Notebook)
- Other past versions of this presentation are also available
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Categories: blogs, disruptive-technology, distributed-learning, leadership, literacy, podcasts, schoolreform, web 2.0
Wesley,
Good stuff. I liked the PowerPoint slides in a PDF. I still have so much trouble with the Web 2.0 sites in that the district blocks the information. I am not sure what we can do to effect change in this arena.
by Andrew Boatman on Aug 31, 2007 at 9:34 am
Great presentation.
I am SO glad to see Kobus van Wyk’s blog listed. I recently pushed it for Blog Day 2007, and already I’ve seen it twice today in two other blogs (including this one).
One PLN that has been REALLY powerful for me and some others this summer has been the Webcast Academy at Ed Tech Talk. Ed Tech Talk and World Bridges is a wonderful place to meet with educators implementing technology in the classroom, and it’s great because they are at a variety of different levels. There, enough of the commercial.
by A. Mercer on Aug 31, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Wesley,
This podcast was extremely helpful to me. I am planning on directing my principal, school district technology P.D. people to this podcast. All of the things you mentioned I have been able to learn about on my own this summer. However, I am wondering how long it will take before other people in my school will be using these tools (delicious, blogging, moodle, flickr, etc.) It did take me the length of my summer vacation to really understand how to use these tools myself before thinking about how they could be used to help drive my thinking and planning for my students and my future learning. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
by Sarah on Sep 6, 2007 at 8:46 pm