Learning with Social Media
TxDHH Learning Bites 1/29/18
Learning Bites Purpose
The TxDHH Learning Bites addresses a topic relevant to deaf educators by providing resources in various sized bites! Whether you have 1, 5, or 15 minutes, or you choose to dig much deeper, you will find resources to help make an impact on you and your students.
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Why this topic?
How will this work?
If you prefer a topic other than the weekly topic, we have included Mental Health Musings, Terp Topics, and Learning Tech Bytes for you to consider.
When you complete your PD, follow the directions at the bottom of the Learning Bites Smore to apply for your Continuing Professional Education credits.
Just a Minute PD
Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Pinterest
The world at our fingertips
Twitter is one of the most amazing ways to grow your Personal Learning Community!
Prefer to Read a Blog?
Twitter for PD
"So when I first signed up for Twitter a few years ago, I did it because I was curious. It took me a few different attempts at playing around with it before I started to see its potential--but when I did, I realized the tremendous impact it could have."
Seven Tips for Using Social Media for PD
"Before you unplug from the virtual world, try these seven steps. They’ll clean up the clutter, smooth out the wrinkles, and put you back in the driver’s seat of your online life:"
Social Media Advice for Teachers
"Teachers are public figures. We might not be on the covers of magazines, but our private lives are definitely topics of discussion in the media."
Periodic Table of Tweeters to Follow
Learning in Bursts: Microlearning with Social Media
"Informal microlearning occurs on multiple levels every day. With the significant integration of smartphone technology and the influence of social media, students have become accustomed to gathering and consuming information in bursts."
140 Twitter Tips for Educators
Whatever questions you have about education or about how you can be even better at your job, you’ll find ideas, resources, and a vibrant network of professionals ready to help you on Twitter. In 140 Twitter Tips for Educators, #Satchat hosts and founders of Evolving Educators, Brad Currie, Billy Krakower, and Scott Rocco offer step-by-step instructions to help you master the basics of Twitter, build an online following, and become a Twitter rock star.
http://www.evolvingeducators.com/140-twitter-tips-for-educators.html
Mental Health Musings
Often, while perusing social media, we see things that activate certain emotions. We then must choose how we proceed. Do we respond in public for the world to see? Do we ponder it quietly within ourselves? Being able to consider perspectives and opinions that we may or may not agree with, we give room to the ability to grow in our understanding of others.
Ethical Question
Free Technology 4 Teachers
Google Slides is an excellent tool for classrooms! It gives the freedom of group collaboration without having to be in the same room or even on the same device. Google is constantly updating their platform and providing tools that make projects easier by the day. Check out this blog on some options for Google Slides that you may not have known existed!
What does this look like in action for me?
For any learning experience, our learning is equal to our effort. In order for us to grow from our learning, we need to take the time to pause and reflect. How does our new learning fit in to what we already know and do?
Each of you reading this has a different role, with different responsibilities. Think about what you learned today through the lens of your particular role, as well as your personal and professional learning needs. This is an important part of the learning process!
Take the time to think about a new idea you learned, a new approach you want to try, or a new skill you have acquired. Consider how to put your new insights, skills, and abilities to work! That's where the real learning happens.
Texas Deaf/Hard of Hearing Services
Anne Darr, ESC Region 11 DHH Services
Twyla Loftin, Texas DHH Services
Danielle Battle, Sensory Impairment Services Birth to Three
Miriam Ackerman, DHH Services Technician
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