Connected teacher

Typical networked teacher

• Very much take and not give mode

• Interaction is with either colleagues or family

• Very low interaction with official channels

A connected teacher

• A read write Web (web 2.0) has enabled more communication amongst teachers

Conferences

• Subject Associations annual Conference

• CESI 5th Feb Portlaoise (ICT)

• Tipp Inst Education Conf late May Thurles

• D.C.C Dunshaughlin March ??

UK conferences

• BETT 12/14 Jan London

• Channel 4 Summer Ed early June London

• Scottish Learning Festival Late Sept Glasgow (midweek)

• TEDx events

• Teachmeets

• Virtual conferences

Teachmeet

• An unconference usually broadcast through Flashmeeting or Elluminate

• Teacher practice shared with other teachers• 7min slots / 2min slots • 15 round table• Suitable for school inservice• TMBETT (flagship event)• CESIMEETs

http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/w/page/33278594/Teachmeet-uksnow

Social Bookmarking

• Diigo– http://www.diigo.com/user/edtechroundup/– http://groups.diigo.com/group/ed-tech-crew

• Delicious– http://www.delicious.com/johnmayo/– http://www.delicious.com/loretonavan– http://www.delicious.com/eirepreneur James Corbett– http://www.delicious.com/russeltarr

– Use RSS feeds to keep track on new additions

Video conferencing

• Teachmeet events • Classroom 2.0

– http://www.learncentral.org/– Interviews with Education heavy hitters

weekly

• Ed Tech Round Up Sunday • Vital Teachshare

– http://www.vital.ac.uk/community/course/category.php?id=81

Blogs

TeachNet Learning Blog http://blog.teachnet.ie

Moving at the Speed of Creativity http://www.speedofcreativity.org

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org http://www.mguhlin.org/

Cool Cat Teacher Blog http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

danah boyd | apophenia http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts

Dangerously Irrelevant http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org

Digital Mavericks http://digitalmavericks.blogspot.com/

dy/dan http://blog.mrmeyer.com

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:

http://joedale.typepad.com/

Inside View from Ireland http://www.insideview.ie/irisheyes/

Educational Origami http://edorigami.edublogs.org

Educational Technology - ICT in Education

http://www.ictineducation.org

Wikis/forums (Tech)

http://www.edugeek.net/

http://www.technibble.com/

http://search.techsupportguides.com/

http://www.asktheadmin.com/

http://www.geekstogo.com/

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/

http://forums.techguy.org/

Podcasts

• Teachnet blog.teachnet.ie

• Ed Tech Crew http://www.edtechcrew.net/

• PC Live Podcast http://www.pcliveradio.ie/

• Guardian Tech http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/techweekly

• Inside Education http://insideeducation.podbean.com/

Twitter

• Do you need to ask?

Social Networks (PLN)

• Facebook– HTAI on Facebook

• Ning– http://www.classroom20.com/

• Edmodo– http://www.edmodo.com/community/socialstudies

Photo and resource sharing

• Imagebank www.imagebank.ie

• Flickr www.flickr.com

• Teachnet.ie www.teachnet.ie

• NDLR http://www.ndlr.ie/ (third level but can be open to sharing if you ask)

Popular media

• Ted Talks www.ted.com

• Poptech www.poptech.org

• Youtube channels– http://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceGallery– http://www.youtube.com/user/innovativeteach– http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks