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Positive Use of Twitter for PLNs

Using and Establishing Productive PLNs

This resource helps educators learn how to take a whole-community approach to empowering students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly.

Creating professional learning networks through twitter.

On the Nature Sound Map you will find placemarks containing recordings of nature. The recordings have been added to the project by professional sound recordists. Some of the recordings you will find feature the sounds of just one animal, the sounds of a jungle, sounds of a marsh, sounds of a storm, or sounds of oceans and rivers.

This is a great article because it gives the opinions/perspectives of three different professionals about assessment with technology.

This article is very useful for teachers, especially new teachers, to know how to talk to parents. Parents are a major part of the education experience. The article helps teachers address parents in a the correct professional way.

This Website is great for teachers. It provides teachers with lesson plans, Common Core material, IPad resources, technology tools, and online art.

Livebinders is a great place for teachers and students to organize their research and attach the corresponding resources. It is just like a binder with tabs. Tabs within tabs can also be created. These binders can be shared among fellow professionals and others as well.

The Smithsonian Science Education Center presents: Good Thinking! a new original series and professional development resource for science educators. Join dedicated science teacher Isabella Reyes as she explores the inner workings of her students' minds, identifies common pitfalls in the teaching of complex scientific topics, and learns new techniques for effective classroom practices grounded in the latest education research. "

This is a great resource for parents, students, and educators! There are many important links for educators over a professional twitter.

(WEEK 12) We chose this source because as we were teaching we found it to be a little difficult to actually find more than a few people to connect with on a professional level on twitter. This actually shows you how to make connections that would better you as a teacher and improve your learning environment.

(WEEK 12) We chose this resource because it deals with the importance and relevance of twitter chats to educational professionals.

Design app that appeared to be easy to use

This website is great for creating presentations as a student and future teacher

Piktochart is a great info graphic and presentation creator. I chose it because we used it in our own teaching this week and found it very useful. It's a great alternative to slides and power-point and has great design features. It can be useful in every class and be customized to fit any teaching material.

In today's technological times, teachers need to have a professional and useful website to aid both students and parents. This website offers a comparative view of various website builders with teachers in mind.

This was our first pick out of the resources. It's an education website that we used to find quality apps best for our students learning. Instead of it being just a general search engine we could put specifics in place to narrow our search.

This is a GREAT website for teachers of ALL ages. It provides lesson plans (PDF and online versions), interactive games, classroom posters, and numerous other teaching tools for teaching students about Digital Citizenship. It also has these tools for other topics like EdTech and Professional Development.

This is a great article on how teachers can use twitter in their classrooms

I chose this because we haven't explored Google+ yet, but I think it would be interesting to take into consideration.

I chose this resource because it is a video that explains how social media, particularly Twitter, can be a great resource for teachers everywhere. It explains how having a professional Twitter can allow you to make connections with Twitter all around the world.