This document provides information about a professional development session focused on personalized learning opportunities outside traditional models. The session will introduce DIY learning tools and help participants build a professional learning network. Attendees will learn about synchronous online and face-to-face opportunities through activities like speed innovating and breakout discussions. The goals are to identify tools for self-directed learning and connections for continued growth.

1. Learn Outside the Box
A World of Professional Development
Opportunities

2. Who We Are
Hadley
@hadleyjf
Kim
@ksivick
Karen
@karenblumberg
Liz
@lizbdavis

3. Goals for the Session
● DIY
○ Personalize your learning, professional development
○ Identify 3-4 tools for personalized learning
● PLN
○ Identify 3-4 online or f2f opportunities for growth
○ Know where to find connections; make connections
among participants
● PD types
○ Share these new PD opportunities with your community

4. Agenda
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Twitter
Speed innovating
break 10 min
DIY Learning
break 10 min
Synchronous online learning
Synchronous face-to-face learning

5. The positive spiral of social networks
Contribution
Reciprocity
Value
Accumulation
tschaut’s

6. Twitter

7. Using the Power of Twitter:
Building Professional Learning Networks

10. "No one knows everything,
everyone knows something,
all knowledge resides in humanity."
Lévy 1997
Image: Peace by Cayusa via flickr

12. Twitter Tips

13. Where to find Educators
•Twitter4Teachers
•Educational Hashtags
•Educators on Twitter
•Twitter Lists

14. Twitter Chats and #Hashtags

15. Tagboard for #NAISAC14

16. Speed Innovating
preselected topics, attendees move to a new table every 15 minutes
Design
Thinking
Chrome
books
iPads
PBL
Robotics

17. Speed
Innovating

18. Speed Innovating
10-minute sessions
People
to
Follow
Basics
Hashtags
Chats

19. DIY
Learning

20. Subscribe to Newsletters

21. GoogleCal of PD

24. NAIS Teachers of the Future
Boarding Schools
Curriculum
Diversity
International Schools
Division Heads
Mandarin Schools
Environmentally Sustainable Schools
Admissions
Financially Sustainable Schools
Global Education
Day Schools
Assistant Heads
Learning Differences

25. Sharing Blog Posts

26. Writing a Blog

29. Blogging - To Learn and To Share
Scholastic’s Top 20
Education World
Teach 100

30. Search for What You Want
Search Engines: Google and Bing

31. ipl2 - Internet Public Library

32. Free Tech for Teachers

33. Library of Congress

34. Teachers Page

36. Primary Source Sets

37. Google Plus
Google’s Answer to Facebook and Twitter!
Circles

38. Finding G+ Communities

39. Conversation
Giving a +
Sharing with others

40. Invitations
Connects with Google Calendar

41. Synchronous
Online
Learning

42. Best of ALL… Google Hangouts!

43. Privacy and Interactions

44. Synchronous
Face-to-Face
Learning

45. Passionate learning
starts with
passionate teachers.

46. Share
your
passion

47. Hang out with learners

49. edcamps
unplugged
speed innovating
backchanneling

52. edcamp.org
edcamp.wikispaces.com

53. Tweet-Ups

54. Backchanneling

55. Teachers Unplugged
An unconference within a conference
Friday 8am - 9am