know about the aPLaNet project and plan to participate in it as a mentor
How to use social networks to keep up to date with new technology and to find out what works best in language learning/teaching
Ann Foreman
Using social networks for
Do-It-Yourself
professional development
Apologies to Stevie Smith's
Not waving but drowning
REAL TICE | Making sense of chaos | Madrid, June 2011
We're waving but not drowning
What social networks, if any, do you use for your professional development?

What kind of information do they give you?

How useful do you find them?
4 levels of Do-It-Yourself professional development
Which one are you?
You:
know and make use of some language teaching/learning websites
In addition you:
have a twitter account and follow some language teacher tweeters
In addition you:
participate in #ELTchat or #Edchat on twitter
In addition you:
have compiled an #ELTchat summary
have a facebook account and have liked some facebook pages related to  language teaching/learning and follow up their posts & links on your newsfeed
have joined number of language teaching/learning-related  facebook pages and groups and regularly make posts/comments
have some favourite language teaching blogs and keep a look out for new posts
have a delicious or diigo account and bookmark content relevant to language teaching/learning
use a newsreader to subscribe to and keep up to date with a list of language teaching bloggers
add comments to your favourite language teaching blogs
use Scoop.it to get updates of what other people in your field – and related fields – consider noteworthy
participate in Nings, webinars and online courses
attend language teaching conferences
have your own language teaching blog, Scoop.it page or Ning and join in the conversation by posting comments and responding to blogger challenges
know the current language teaching buzzwords
Toe in the water
Getting the drift
In the flow
Making waves
present at international ELT/MFL teaching conferences and produce online courses/webinars and help to establish what the current language teaching buzzwords are
How to organise yourself and operate efficiently at the level you choose
creating a personal
network of trusted nodes
selecting and filtering
choose your learning community
define and nurture your networks
employ the right tools to help you
identify and follow mentors
Shelly Terrell http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/
My favourite ELT & EdTech
blogger mentors
Jason Renshaw http://jasonrenshaw.typepad.com/jason_renshaws_web_log/
Kieran Donaghy  http://film-english.com/
Paul Braddock http://bcnpaul1.blogspot.com/
Karenne Sylvester http://kalinago.blogspot.com/
Nik Peachy http://quickshout.blogspot.com/
Cecilia Coelho http://cecilialcoelho.wordpress.com/
Sue Lyon-Jones http://www.scoop.it/t/cpd-in-education
Scott Thornbury http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/
Kyle Mawer/Graham Stanley http://digitalplay.info/blog/
Nicky Hockly http://www.emoderationskills.com/
Adam Simpson http://www.yearinthelifeofanenglishteacher.com
Claire Hart http://businessenglishlessonplans.wordpress.com
Adam Simpson http://www.yearinthelifeofanenglishteacher.com
David Mainwood http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/
David Dodgson http://www.davedodgson.com/
Sean Banville http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com
Richard Byrnes http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Stephen Downes http://www.downes.ca/
Jamie Keddie http://lessonstream.org/browse-lessons/
Making sense of chaos
A connectivist approach...
...the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, complexity, and self-organization theories
George Siemens
foreman@ydemas.com
Who are your mentors?
At which level do you want to be?

How can you organise yourself to get where you want to be?

What's your plan for DIY professional development?
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/TeachingEnglish.BritishCouncil
http://twitter.com/#!/ann_f
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_117880428273669
http://cecilialcoelho.wordpress.com/
http://www.diigo.com/user/annfor
http://eltchat.com/
http://tinyurl.com/328znjv
http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/
http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-technology
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/33481412/Call_for_Participation2011
http://www.tesol-spain.org/Events/Conv2011/Conv2011.html
http://tinyurl.com/4gp9rjg
http://tinyurl.com/2dyhya5
http://aplanet-project.org/
http://www.thornburyscott.com/
http://www.artofeurope.com/smith/smi1.htm
http://edchat.pbworks.com/w/page/219908/FrontPage
Ewan McIntosh http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/
http://eltchat.com/eltchat-summaries-index/
Resources for DIY
professional development
Resources for Growing Your Professional Learning Network http://www.edutopia.org/resources-growing-professional-learning-network
Build your PLN http://www.onlinecollege.org/inside-online-learning/2011/04/26/build-your-pln/
What Will You Learn this Summer? 26 Professional Development Resources – Shelly Terrell http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2011/05/26/what-will-you-learn-this-summer-23-professional-development-resources/
Teacher training videos: Russell Stannard http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
SchoolsWorld.tv – videos showing best teaching practice http://www.schoolsworld.tv/videos/
Sites For Educators  http://cristinaskybox.blogspot.com/p/for-educators.html
Workshop notes http://tinyurl.com/5tsf3qn
The Reflective Teacher: A Taxonomy of Reflection – Peter Pappas http://peterpappas.blogs.com/copy_paste/2010/01/reflective-teacher-taxonomy-reflection.html
English Companion Ning http://tinyurl.com/4fydjb