cpd in critical times
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My reasons for setting up a PLN and what I have learned from it.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Looking after your own interests
2. Can you keep up with change?
- Tired of being alone?
- Irritated having to defend your subject?
- Does no-one understand your job?
3. CPD
- Should be Continuing Professional Development
- Not Constraints, Pressure and Demands!
4. Dylan Wiliam, AfL guru, says:
- As a teacher, you have got to keep learning until you retire or die!!
- CPD should not be the occasional extra
- So a solution might be a PLN.
5. Personal learning network
- Weve had SLNs
- Where has this idea come from?
- Simple Google search will give you lots of links!
- Its an easier way to think about how you are or can be connected.
6. My journey apologies to Tony!
- Involvement with new technologies
- Need to develop new skills
- Stay up to date - not be an oldie
- Stay connected as a learner and teacher
- Learn more myself for fun!
7. 8. Simple - emails and forums
- Join TES resources to download materials
- Be part of the MFLResources Yahoo group
- Join Linguanet forum through CILT
- Read the ALL sites and ALL London in particular
9. Presentation & bookmark sharing
- Slideshare.net share your PowerPoints and look for other peoples
- Vimeo.net for video
- Prezi.com great way to gather ideas
- Delicious.com get good at Tags and share your bookmarks
10. Online meetings
- Be part of a Flashmeeting
- http://lmhtob.wikispaces.com/MFL+Flashmeeting
- 25 people can sign up, test mike and webcam to participate in online discussion.
- Discuss from your own armchair!
11. What a Flashmeeting looks like! 12. Face-to-face meetings
- Show n tell get-togethers
- Teachmeets Hampshire, NW, NE
- Special conference sessions for MFL teachers with 2 min presentation slots
- Language World, ALL conf, SW conf
- ICT Links conf.12 & 13 Feb in Soton
13. 14. Tweet!!
- Phil Beadle Guardian EducationFollowing the conversation of intelligent people is like a shot of mental expresso
- http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/twitterforteachers.cfm
15. Getting started on Twitter
- Get someone to introduce you
- Warning its VERY public
- Its fabulous for instant rapport
- Develop an online presence sensibly
- Give, share, be kind!
- Enjoy daft things that make you laugh!
16. Find people to follow
- You can search for people you know
- See who they are following and click to follow them too
- Search lists for teachers with different interests SEN, Maths, Management
- Get wind of the latest news before it hits the papers!
17. Why is Twitter worth it?
- Its instant
- When you have also met some of the people, it gains hugely in meaning
- Ask experts and get replies Edmodo man answers me personally
- Join in specific web chats attach a # e.g. #EDL #FM9 #somersetmfl
18. 19. Best Tip - use an aggregator!
- How can you follow lots of sites easily?
- Get new posts delivered to you you dont need to go to each site!
- You can keep up with large numbers of contributions and keep them for reading later or star or share
- Google Reader is free and easy to use
20. 21. How to start
- Open an account
- Go to top heading Google Reader
- Find a site with RSS feed and click on it ask to subscribe using Google Reader (or others!)
22.
- What I have learned is changing my teaching
- I am more connected
- I have benefitted from many new opportunities
- I have more confidence
23. Next Steps
- Go towww.froggyval.comfor links
- Follow @froggyval on Twitter
- Sign up for Google Reader
- Read the blogs of best practitioners
24. What have I learned?
- How to use new technologies
- Web 2 tools Glogster, Xtranormal, Wordle, Edmodo, Storybird, Wallwisher
- Blogging for me and pupils
- Connections to large group of teachers
25. Benefits for school
- I share what I am learning or what we are doing
- School blogging
- Primary Wiki wetpaint.com
- Trip posterous
- MYLO ambassador
26. Finally -
- You dontalways get the best CPD from expensive courses
- You need to stay up to date
- Read and take in new ideas
- Give your pupils a world audience
- Start your own PLN!
27. LINKS
- www.edmodo.com
- www.vimeo.com
- www.wallwisher.com
- Free blog by email www.posterous.com
- www.prezi.com
- www.slideshare.net
- www.delicious.combookmarking
- www.flickr.comfor pictures
- www.radiolingua.comfor FL podcasts
- www.teachertrainingvideos.com
- http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com /
- http:// lisibo.co.uk /
- http:// lmhtob.wikispaces.com/MFL+Flashmeeting
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- Blogs I follow
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- http:// alexblagona.blogspot.com /
- http:// www.boxoftricks.net /
- http://chilternedgemfl.typepad.com/chiltern-edge-mfl /
- http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/
- http:// frenchteachernet.blogspot.com /
- http:// joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the _/
- http:// amandasalt.blogspot.com /
- http:// chrisharte.typepad.com/learner_evolution_chris_h /
- http:// mmeperkins.typepad.com/my_weblog /
- http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
- http:// languagesresources.wordpress.com /