4 events

Here are 4 events that inspired me to record my learning journey as a blog:
1. In November 2005 I attended Professional Development courses run by Jacqui Sharp – "Digital Cameras for real Beginners and 101 Ways to use your Digital Camera."

2. I was next inspired by Dorothy Burt who spoke about classroom blogging at a Teachers Conference in Palmerston North in January 2010.

3. My wonderful techie and future focussed husband, Julien, continues to inspire and challenge me to try out new "technology." Hence my iPhone is now my favourite device that I am addicted to and would be lost without. Together with my iPad it has made it so easy for me to keep in touch with current changes in technology.

4. The last event that catapulted me in the deep end and showed me what could be happening in my school, was attending the ISTE conference in San Diego in July 2012. This conference opened my eyes, inspired and motivated me to share my learning. This blog, hopefully, will have ideas to inspire you to get e-learning happening in your classroom.


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Twitter for Teachers @jennielesueur

 
All teachers should have an iPhone

The staff at Pinehill had begun blogging in 2011 as well as me. I followed their blogs and often “borrowed” their ideas.
I now follow them on Twitter and this helps me keep up to date with new ideas to use in the classroom. The educators I follow tweet links to a huge range of websites and references about all fields of education, not just IT information.

Twitter has become my main resource for
professional development reading. Every day I try to quickly scan through the tweets and "favourite" or email the link to myself for future reference.
One of my goals for next year is to either:

- encourage other staff to follow me on Twitter so I could retweet links to sites they might find useful or
- regularly email them the links to these sites.
I am preparing an introductory information pack to present to staff at a PD meeting.





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