Week #9 – Tools for ongoing PD
This week we will explore a range of options for you to take control of your own professional development — with the help of Web 2.0. On offer is a mix of tasks and tools to keep you connected and inspired.
By the way, see this recent article in the Guardian (UK) entitled “Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up”
Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned.
However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.
This stuff is coming into schools faster than you might think.
There is only one more week of Connecting East when we return from the break. So we’re trying to help you consolidate and build on your experiences thus far.
Just because you’ve been a Novice all along doesn’t mean you’re still one. Please read all four tasks and tackle whatever you feel capable of. Maybe you’re ready to sign up for Twitter, even if you don’t feel like an Expert.
But everyone above the Novice level will able to follow what Keri-Lee, Louise, and Belinda are experiencing at the EARCOS conference over these last days of term, thanks to Twitter.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:18 am
am just not a twitter girl, don’t work that fast! Like facebook and find that enough. Can’t quite see the benefit of twitter at this point in my life, but I don’t have the tweet deck thing on either so I don’t read my twitter messages for weeks on end and that just defeats the purpose!
May 28th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Great to do some professional reading. Still trying to find the best way to get info from twitter.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:10 am
Not convinced about Twitter yet. Did see a good Ning, though. Am waiting to appreciate Klingons too.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 am
The OCC rocks. Still think twitters and nings are friends of the teletubbies and Iggle-Piggle.
June 11th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Still working on “Twittering”.
Maybe we just need to have more people to be on so that I can have more motivation to go on every night
June 16th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
It was good to have the OCC as a task so that we can get an idea of what is out there as a resource. I need to delve a little deeper when I have time…
I liked the booklist relating to the Learner Profile. I am often trying to come up picture books relating to LPs and issues as they arise in the class.
b
June 16th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Well I signed up to twitter, still dont get it but will remmain open-minded. Signed up for a coupole of RSS feeds, can see the wonderful logiuc behind that.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
OCC could do much better with their site. However we need to promote it much more during the second year. I refer quite a bit for documentation etc
June 17th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Have signed on to Twitter but haven’t had a chance to experience it completely and to see the benefit, but will give it a go.
June 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
hmmmm twitter… i’d use it if i can embed it on my igoogle, will have to check. the good thing about the resource you’ve created is that all the links are accessable from one site if I lose it.