“Two barriers to implementation of technology literacy development are lack of time and the fact that many teachers are not independent learners themselves.”
Reflection blog post by David Warlick after ISTE 2010
Why Twitter?

accessibility
responsibility
 “Society doesn’t change when people adopt new tools; it changes when people adopt new behaviors.” Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody
OK, I'll "tweet." How does it work? 
Set up an account
Go to Twitter.com
keep it simple and start by following: 
edutopia
judygressel
classroom20

Follow who we are following!
Get recommendations from others.
Now download your tweetdeck.
In each of our schools we need to accept what is, and then “start where we are” to change it.
Educators groan about the fact that the software keeps changing. It’s impossible to keep up.
Let’s not let fear stand in the way. A leader teacher is always learning.
Educators worth following on Twitter:
tomwhitby
web20classroom
hrheingold  
mcleod 
dwarlick 
willrich45 
berniedodge 
kathyschrock 
courosa
russeltarr
  
  
 
  
  

mashable 
#TeacherTuesday, #edchat, #edtech
What a student's Personal Learning Environment Looks Like:
Examples of real time crowdsourcing:
http://mashpedia.com/



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The fourth 'R', Relationships
“We want our students to be self-directed life long learners, but then complain when we aren't spoon-fed PD. What's wrong with this?”
David Wees @ ISTE 2010
“Teachers have the right to hide in a cave but they don't have the right to drag students with them”. Jason Schrage @ ISTE 2010
“Rather than demonizing social media or dismissing its educational value, I believe that we need to embrace the environments that youth are using to gather and help them learn to navigate the murky waters of sociality. …We can serve as listeners, guides, and cheerleaders.”
danah boyd from blog post "Sociality Is Learning"
Will Richardson – Weblogg-ed   http://weblogg-ed.com/
David Warlick -  2 Cents Worth  http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
Blogging is a process of reflecting on what you learn every day.
Social Bookmarking: Use Diigo
Who to Follow:
Research, Share, Collaborate
Start a blog; contribute to an existing blog
Tweet from your blog - use Tweet This, a WordPress Plugin for Twitter 
Get people to subscribe to your blog:
use FeedBlitz
Social Media is here to stay

http://newtrierlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/07/social-media-is-here-to-stay-check-this.html
Gary Hayes Social Media Counts:
•How can I make my classroom "Respond?" How can I make it "Talk Back to students?"
•How might it become a place of "Questions" -- not just for answers?
•How can I ban silence, provoke "Conversation," and expect learners to exchange knowledge?
•How can I make information something to "Invest" in?
•How am I daring my students to make the "Mistakes" that feed the learning dialog?
College-bound students need access:
80 percent of professors, with little variance by age, have at least one account with either Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Slideshare, or Google Wave. (Inside Higher Ed May 2010)
Wikis
Howard Rheingold’s Critical Thinking Compendium! 
http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/Diigo+Resources
Diigo Resources for Critical Thinking
http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
David Warlick's CoLearners Wiki
http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage
for students, "the walls of the school don't exist; to the extent we think they do, that is the extent to which we're irrelevant"
David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, talks about using Twitter for his courses.
 
Michael Wesch - World Simulation Wiki
http://worldsim.wetpaint.com/page/Instructions
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
–Bob Dylan


"Deep learning happens when you examine your ideas from other points of view....blogs and wikis give learners the opportunity to shape their work and expose it to the critical feedback of others".ISTE publication Feb. 2010
Twitter Directories
Twellow
wefollow
It takes courage to connect.
Gather the courage to connect.
Are you a teacher who likes to kick it old-school?
‘All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.’ ~ John Dewey
 
Social Media Accounts for 22 Percent of All Online Time Shows New Study  
75% of U.S. Households Use Social Networking --Nielson Company
Add students to your PLN.
Can adequate professional development happen without social media?
A Framework for Teaching with Twitter, Prof. Mark Sample @samplereality
We can’t ask for permission to do our jobs better, we have to decide to do them better and figure out how.
We have to get out of the idea of “tell me what to do”.  There is no map of how to do it.
So let’s get to work.
Doug Johnson
Personal Network Member Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

   1. I have the right not to be social 24/7 - either online or in person.
   2. I have the right to time for reflection and responsibility for doing so.
   3. I have the right to use only the tools that suit my learning style.
   4. I have the right to stop using a tool when it is no longer useful.
   5. I have the right to not be on the cutting edge all the time or feel I need to always know all there is to know.
   6. I have the right to choose those with whom I learn in my personal learning network and responsibility to learn from those with whom I don't always agree.
   7. I have the right and responsibility to disagree and the responsibility to do it professionally.
   8. I have the responsibility to become familiar with a tool before sharing it with others.
   9. I have the responsibility to share my knowledge with others in my network.
  10. I have the right and responsibility to not let online activities keep me from my friends, my family, my workplace, or my community.

That's it. No more beating myself up for punching that "Mark All as Read" button!
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Using Social Media to Enhance Professional Development
D'Arcy Norman - Univ. of Calgary
"How do YOU connect online?"
CogDogBlog - Alan Levine
All rants, typos, and drooling here are the work of Alan Levine, who hails from the fair city of Baltimore  (locally pronounced “Bawwwlddamarr”), Orioles, Fells Point, Chesapeake Bay steamed crabs… Only here will you find this Beta version (v0.3b) of alan. The product is far from finished- life is essentially a beta test.
BlueSkunkBlog
"some aspects of emerging practice are nonnegotiable".....
Did You Know 4.0?
Karl Fisch
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
Twitter4Teachers Wiki
http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/22554534/FrontPage
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2010 Categories

1. Best individual blog
2. Best individual tweeter
3. Best group blog
4. Best new blog
5. Best class blog
6. Best student blog
7. Best resource sharing blog
8. Most influential blog post
9. Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion
10. Best teacher blog
11. Best librarian / library blog
12. Best school administrator blog
13. Best educational tech support blog
14. Best elearning / corporate education blog
15. Best educational use of audio
16. Best educational use of video / visual
17. Best educational wiki
18. Best educational podcast
19. Best educational webinar series
20. Best educational use of a social network
21. Best educational use of a virtual world
22. Best use of a PLN
23. Lifetime achievement
http://edublogawards.com/announcing-the-2010-edublog-awards-winners/
http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/
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