Developing A Professional

Presence OnlineCindy Duffy

Director, Area IV LTC

Developing Professionally

Currently how are you collaborating with other professionals?

How do you utilize your time online?

How can you blend the two?

Personal Learning Network (PLN)

Personal – you design it for yourselfLearning – it is about increasing your knowledge/changing your

practicesNetwork –structure that crosses at regular intervals & is knotted or

secured at the crossings

DEVELOP A POSITIVE DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Links can be found at -http://plncindy.wikispaces.com/INTC

Sites to help you organize and share

Symbaloohttp://www.symbaloo.com

A free visual bookmarking site that gives you access to anything you bookmark from any computer by just clicking on a tile.

http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/intc

DiigoSocial bookmarking websitehttp://www.diigo.com

Organize your thoughtsTag – listsHighlight – stickyShare/learn with others

NetworkGroupsCommunity

Commonly used sites

FacebookEducators using Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/7036945291/

Beginning Teachers http://www.facebook.com/groups/2227299043/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Survival Guide for Beginning Primary Teachers

http://www.facebook.com/SurvivalGuideforPrimaryTeachers?ref=ts&fref=ts

Illinois New Teacher Collaborative http://www.facebook.com/pages/Illinois-New-Teacher-Collaborative/239875594767?ref=ts

Twitter

#ntchatThey meet Wednesdays, 7pm EST.http://tweetchat.com/room/ntchat

#edchat#teachchat

#iled#iledchat

@tesNewTeachers@intc

Used by people around the world. Twitter connects teacherss to thousands of educators around the world with rich backgrounds and experiences that can contribute to professional growth.

PinterestPinterest is a free  virtual bulletin board where users pin videos and  images captured from around the web. These images are then arranged into different categories on a user's board. Pins are also shared and searchable making thus Pinterest a great tool for virtual learning. Pins are also visible to other Pinterest users and one can easily see the board of others as well.

INTC beginning teachers

my PLN

Education Specific

Bloggingedublogs

Live Binders

example

Edutopiahttp://www.edutopia.org/blogs/beat/new-teacher-support

Find advice, resources, and strategies to support new teachers and help them improve their craft.

http://www.edutopia.org/groups/bridges-first-years-practice

Group for new teachers and veterans to connect

Teaching with Soul

The New Teacher Mentoring Project was created by Lisa Dabbs, creator of #ntchatPurpose is to

To collaborate and find best practices To mentor and support new/pre-service teachers in K-12 and higher education institutes of learning worldwide for online and offline learning. To use the New Teacher Mentoring project to help you navigate through your first few years of teaching with a virtual mentor.

http://www.teachingwithsoul.com/new-teacher-mentoring-project

Schoology

Learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content www.schoology.com

Teachers Net

Teachers.Net was founded on the principle of allowing teacher-users to contribute the content and direct site development and to

utilize the Internet to harness the collective intellect and wisdom of the worldwide

teaching communityhttp://teachers.net/mentors/beginning_teachers

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What are you using?

Online Resources for Beginning

TeachersCindy Duffy

DirectorArea IV LTC