Social Media for Educators
Social Media transformed the way I teach and the way I learn. Education can be isolating. Depending on your situation, where you teach, the other teachers in your building, the leadership, etc, it is easy to get in a rut and begin to doubt your ability to teach. It happened to me many times when I was in the classroom. But through the use of social media, educators from across the country and the globe can connect to learn, share and grow from one another.
As I mentioned before through the use of Twitter my Personal Learning Network
(PLN) began to grow. My PLN is my network of educators that I learn from and share with. They are people, some I have met face-to-face, some I have not. They live close by across the country and on the other side of the world. They are people that I can ask questions of, get ideas from and collaborate with on various projects. They are my network of people that gets bigger and bigger each day.
PLN’s existed long before social media. The teachers that you collaborate with in your building and district are a PLN. But when you take the same ideas of collaboration, sharing, learning and growing online you exponentially expand the possibilities for those things. I never would have been able bring students in from other parts of the world in to the classrooms I work in without the use of social media. Nor would I be able to meet so many amazing educators doing really great things in classrooms all over.
Getting Started: You might be asking yourself where do I start? You want to connect with other educators but need some ideas on how it will all work. Here are some steps to get you started.
1) Join Twitter. I train lots and lots of teachers to get started with Twitter and how they can better use it for not only resource sharing but for their own professional development. I created a Livebinder with over 150 different resources for getting started. Take a week, a month, however long you need and read through all the information there. Start thinking about how you might use it. (You can also check out this open course to get started with Twitter.)
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