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This presentation was delivered to the ACSA Women in School Leadership dinner on 9/18/14. Connected Leadership: Developing your PLN.
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Connected Leadership Developing your PLN
ACSA Women’s Leadership Network 9/1/2014
Molly Large @mollylarge
Assistant Principal Franklin Elementary School
Adjunct Lecturer University of La Verne
Doctoral Student EducaEonal Technology
PLN
• Personal Learning Network
• Professional Learning Network
• Meets “specific needs for knowledge, informaEon, and ideas,”
Diagram created by Bev Novak in NovaNews Published with permission.
A collecEon of people with whom you exchange informaEon and engage in conversaEons.
Digital Tools for Professional Learning
Allow us to: • Find and/or curate content • Learn new skills • Conduct research • ASend presentaEons • Learn from/with others
– Anything! – Any Eme! – Anywhere!
Why TwiSer?
Why TwiSer?
• Establish a network of supports • Keep current on trends and resources • Connect with the best minds in the field • Model 21st century communicaEon • Strengthen technology skills • Tell your story
Get Started
• Track specific conversaEons, groups, topics, conferences
• Created by users – #WISL14 – #cpchat – #caedchat – #RUSDlearns – #FranklinElem
Get Started
• Choose whom to follow – @handle
• See who they follow • Search for content
– Hashtags – Lists
• Push out links, arEcles, resources • Nurture others
– Retweet (RT) – Respond to shout outs
TwiSer Spectrum
“The audience you are speaking to is not the only audience that’s hearing you.” Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart
Two Approaches
• Let people lead you to conversaEons
• Let conversaEons lead you to people
Professional Learning Network: A collecEon of people with whom you exchange informaEon and engage in conversaEons.
Professional Leadership Network: A collecEon of people for whom you provide informaEon and tell your organizaEonal story.
Schools and classrooms will never look different, if our own ac7ons
and beliefs look the same.
George Couros, The Principal of Change
Use TwiSer to…
• Share resources related to professional pracEce
• Request assistance & offer help • Make connecEons with others in field • Share informaEon about classroom/students • Engage in social commentary • Build digital idenEty (footprint) • Highlight parEcipaEon in other networks
Use TwiSer to…
• Share resources related to professional pracEce
• Request assistance & offer help • Make connecEons with others in field • Share informa0on about classroom/students • Engage in social commentary • Build digital iden0ty (footprint) • Highlight par0cipa0on in other networks
References • All images licensed from PresenterMedia.com • Hewson, K. (2012). TwiSer for educators: Why start now? hSp://
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peternewbury/building-‐yourpln-‐fa13 • Rinaldo, S.B, Tapp, S. & Laverie, D.A. (2011) Learning by tweeEng: Using
TwiSer as a pedagogical tool. Journal of MarkeEng EducaEon. • Sheninger, E. (2013). The power of PLN’s. hSp://www.slideshare.net/
Esheninger/plns-‐24201822 • Tolisano, S. R. (2014). Building a PLN. hSp://www.slideshare.net/
langwitches/building-‐a-‐plan • Veletsianos, G. (2012). Higher educaEon scholars’ parEcipaEon and
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