Learning and Sharing never seems to stop with Ontario Educators. In case you missed them, here are some of the posts that caught my attention this past week.
Useful Twitter Resources for Educators
It’s hard to think that there are people who still haven’t seen the value of being connected to other educators via Twitter. Sometimes, it just takes a good starting point. The Cube for Teachers blog puts together a pretty comprehensive list for the beginner or those who wish to extend their abilities.
There’s also a selection of educator accounts offered as samples at the bottom of the post.
This post is a great share in your school conference and just might inspire more of your colleagues to join Cube for Teachers for the resources and the networking.
Once you’ve sipped from the extensions/addon functionality well supporting your favourite browser, you’ll never stop. A great browser goes over the top when you extend its abilities with the right tool. Nicole Beuckelare shares some of her favourites in this post.
She also attended the Ontario Google Summit and shares her observations from that event here. I like her analogy of a “gatherer”. I feel like a hoarder at times…
My EdTech Team GAFE Summit Ah Ha Moment!
The neat thing that happens when you get a bunch of motivated to learn people together in one space is the massive learning and sharing. It can be humbling when you think that you’ve “got it” only to realize that there’s so much to learn. KimPollishuke describes it like this…
I think the race analogy is so appropriate. I have the same feeling and also the suspicion that the people holding the ribbon are running away from me way faster than I’m running towards them. Never stop learning.
The Google Summit wasn’t the only summit in the province last weekend. Andre Quaglia had the only post that I could find about the Microsoft event. Andre presented at the summit and shares his resources through this post.
The two hashtags from the weekend of learning were: #ongafesummit and #msftedusummit.
They should have had a Hangout or Lync smackdown to close their events.
Diana Maliszewski was involved in an AQ course on mentoring. It sounds interesting and I’m going to do some more digging to find out just what the course entails. At the very end, though, she posted some thoughts about one of the professionals that she worked with.
I like the list of attributes identified and attributed to Salma. These are qualities that everyone should be proud to have and I hope that she wasn’t embarrassed. She should be proud that Diana identified them. This is the good stuff.
Could you say this about yourself? If not, what could you do to put yourself into that position?
The best part of professional learning happens when the right people are in the right place at the right time. Amy Bowker writes a post of just this happening at an edCamp.
Her takeaway was a renewed interest in the Google Educational certification program. It sounds like obtaining this certification is important to her, so I wish her luck.
I had the awesome opportunity to conduct an interview with Anita Brook Kirkland this past week. These are some of my most enjoyable posts and Anita was certainly delightful and shared so many things. Read it here. All of the interview that I’ve done are gathered together in the Interviews link above in case you want to dig into the archives for one. Ditto for the “This Week in Ontario Edublogs” posts. Such wisdom is contained in those posts.
There’s always something happening on the blogs of Ontario Educators and great thinking/sharing. Why not jump in, read, and add your thoughts to these wonderful blogs?
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