Social+Media+for+Professional+Development

 Educational Social Networking for Professional Development 2/10/11  Session: 110867    Room ML6 Presenter: Steve Hargadon, Elluminate; Created Classroom 2.0 Social Networking: the aggregation of a set of participative of tools that facilitate creation, conversion, and sharing Social Networking Sites for Educators: Classroom 2.0: [] Learn Central Social Networking + LMS + Live Collaboration = Engaged Learning social networking is asynchronous, meaning contributions are made when convenient Social Networking... 1. Allows authentic, peer-driven learning/professional development 2. Provides emotional support and reduces isolation 3. Allows visibility of practice 4. Facilitates networked and community learning 5. Fosters creativity and perspective 6. Provides for engagement, participation, and action 7. Re-energized personal learning 8. Increases global connectivity 9. Draws into humanity's great conversation Lessons: 1. It's about the users personal > public > community > civic 2. Facilitate and support the process, not the outcome think of a park not a cafeteria 3. Be authentic be a human, not a company 4. Start with the educators and administrators first 5. Support and promote the early adopters (they're more important than you) 6. Allow for failure (your own) as you look for real needs 7. BUild your culture and recognize the important of interpersonal skills sustained participation depends on "emotional labor" Coming Up Next: 1. Synchronous: live meetings,Twitter-like immediacy 2. More network linking 3. Turn-key Ed Networking tools 4. Top-down v. grass roots 5. Growing student/classroom use 6. COPPA / Age Discussions 7. Experimenting The key is collaboration Ability to learn from their choices Self-organization Elegance of the tools ***Ann Merchant (?) Accounting teacher in Australia ***Rapportive