WHY we ought to embrace technology in order to upgrade our ability to: Assess learning Accountability Advocate HOW social media could enable us to capture students’ learning artifacts so that we could assess learning while we could also use social media to document teachers’ activity in their Personal Learning Networks for which they would be accountable to create and to harness for their professional development. We could think of these as students’ and teachers’ LearnStreams. Recently, I have assembled a collection of resources to demonstrate how I am currently capturing my personal LearnStream. Once we have these LearnStreams, we could publish them to demonstrate our students’ learning and teachers’ professional development in order to “tell our story” in a more compelling way to our constituents who we hope would then advocate for us as we build financial and political support for education.

1. Facebook Timeline: Our students are already telling the story of their lives so let’s ask them to tell the story of their learning

2. Why do we care? Assessment – capture students’ learning via Personal Learning Networks Accountability – document teachers’ professional development via Personal Learning Networks Advocacy – publish this learning & professional development activity to tell our story to our constituents

3. Lifestream = LearnStream Capturing my LearnStream Shows both sides of conversation http://memolane.com/drthomasho http://www.glos.si/drthomasho/ http://lifestream.fm/drthomasho

4. Resources http://go.thomasho.co/howtolearnstream http://about.LearnStream.info

5. Thomas Ho, Ph.D. http://about.DrThomasHo.com @DrThomasHo Tom@DrThomasHo.com http://plus.DrThomasHo.com (PLN) http://facebook.com/ThomasHo +1 317 288-1790 (Google Voice)