We all know that technology constantly changing and evolving and there is a need for a plan to keep up with it the best we can. We have been tasked to develop a plan for this exact thing. We have been offered several tools that will help with this.
The plan:
*Twitter (in conjunction with Hootsuite)
* Use our District
*Follow these sites on protopage
****First, I have found a love and respect for twitter and all that it has to offer. These last few weeks of simply following some of our school technologists have shown me several things. She has added post about Keynote (which I love, and am thankful for more ideas on how to use it), google classroom (ditto from before), and something called PDF candy, which I am gonna check out.
She also added this jewel which needs to be remembered!
The following, ideas, and possibilities for collaboration are large with twitter and I plan to continue to pursue them.
****Our school district offers many opportunities to keep up. As I mentioned before, we have several instructional technology facilitators in our school district. The one I mentioned above at least twice a month and you can request her to come even more often. She and her colleagues have amazing google sites with lots of info. The facilitators also plan amazing professional developments in the summer. When we can look at our summer catalog it is always the first thing I look at.
****I am building a professional protopage with some people/organization I want to follow. One the places to follow on protopage is TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association)—(and possibly, maybe, probably join) I also respect ControlAltAChieve and the ideas they give for using technology. They are on the protopage as well. And what about educationaltechnoloyg.net? Follow it! Join it (IT’S FREE)
Having a plan is the first step. Executing the next. Thankfully I love this stuff and enjoying trying to keep up with it.
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