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Instructional TechnologyCurriculum & InstructionUniversity of Northern IowaCedar Falls, Iowa
Dr. Leigh Zeitz Robin Galloway
What is Professional Development?▪ Institutional vs. Personal Professional
Development
What Works
Distributed Learning Communities
Using Social Media
Strategies & Tools
Q&A
What is your role?
What do you seek to gain?
How do YOU get it?
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School/District School-Wide
Initiatives Satisfies Mandates Few days per year Early Dismissal
Personal Personal growth & dev. Prof improvement Relevant & timely Frequent Ongoing Self-directed
Small groups of educators
Work together over time
Professional learning communities
Based on principals of effective adult learning
Deepens educators' content knowledge
National Staff Development Council Standards for Staff Dev.
Self-directed
Relevant
Immediately applicable
Problem-centered
Informal
Timely
Collaborative
Diversity of expertise
Shared objective of advancing collective knowledge/skills
Emphasis on Learning How to Learn.
Mechanisms for sharing what is learned.
Dede, 2004
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Discover colleagues
Find experts
Shadowing (ambient awareness)
Seeking answers, solutions, support
Discovering new resources
Following #hashtag topics
Diigo, Delicious Tag & share bookmarks Discover others' bookmarks Join a group Annotate web pages w/highlights &
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