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The Connected Educator
Learning and Leading in a Digital Age
Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first. After uncovering the theories and research behind the significance of learning through collaboration with other educators, the authors show you how to take advantage of technology to improve your own learning and ultimately the learning of your students.
Benefits
- Examine chapter-specific author vignettes to understand leading and learning in networks and communities.
- Gain step-by-step instructions on how to utilize a particular technology tool.
- Explore relevant, real-life examples of educators using technology tools to enhance learning in their classrooms and schools.
- Read the research behind the author's connected learning community model and scale.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Defining the Connected Educator
Chapter 2: Developing a Connected Learning Model
Chapter 3: Learning to Learn
Chapter 4: Building a Collaborative Culture
Chapter 5: Using Tools to Support Connected Learning
Chapter 6: Building Your Connected Learning Community
Chapter 7: Sustaining the Momentum
Chapter 8: Transforming Leadership for a Connected World
Chapter 9: What the Future Holds
Appendix A: Research Base for the Connected Learning Community Model
Appendix B: Scale in Action
Appendix C: Common Diigo and Twitter Hashtags
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Tools to Support Connected Learning
- Classroom 2.0
- Delicious
- -->Diigo
- Powerful Learning Practice
- Skype
- TeacherTube
- ThinkQuest
- Wallwisher
- YouTube
Diigo Resources
Twitter Resources
Twitter Applications
VoiceThread Resources
Wallwisher Resources
Sample Tools and Conversations
- CCS Holocaust Museum
- Doomsday 1
- Edutopia Conversation
- Making the Case for Connected Learning
- Spartiger Research Saves the World
- Unlearning and Relearning
Google Tools
Google Docs
- Google Docs
- Building a Shared Vision
- New Account
- Twitter Chat Schedule
Google Maps
Blogs
Edublogs Resources
- Register
- Publishing a New Post
Featured Blogs
Suggested Blogs
- 21st Century Collaborative
- The Fischbowl
- The Learning Edge
- Open Thinking
- A Place at the Table
- Possibilities Abound
- Powerful Learning Practice
- Powerful Learning Pracitce Voices from the Learning Revolution
- Reflections of a Techie
- Teacher in a Strange Land
- Weblogg-ed
- Wright'sRoom
Wikis
Suggested Wikis
- Chinquapinlearningedge
- Chinquapin Culminating Senior Project
- Support Blogging
- Twitter4Teachers
Common Diigo and Twitter Hashtags
#connectededc
#clc-voc
#clcresearch
#clc-tools
#clc-community
#clc-network
#clc-plp
Suggested Resources
- Café Conversations
- ChinesePod
- Everyday Democracy
- Future Search
- National School Reform Faculty
