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Professional Learning Networks

This document provides 10 places for teachers to find ideas and inspiration for their professional learning networks. These include Facebook groups, Twitter hashtags, blogs focused on interactive notebooks, economics teaching, edtech podcasts, reviews of educational tools, and open educational resources. The resources offer advice, lessons, strategies and collaboration opportunities on topics like standards-based grading, technology integration, student engagement, and more. Many are free for teachers to use and provide inquiry-based learning approaches.

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Professional Learning Networks

This document provides 10 places for teachers to find ideas and inspiration for their professional learning networks. These include Facebook groups, Twitter hashtags, blogs focused on interactive notebooks, economics teaching, edtech podcasts, reviews of educational tools, and open educational resources. The resources offer advice, lessons, strategies and collaboration opportunities on topics like standards-based grading, technology integration, student engagement, and more. Many are free for teachers to use and provide inquiry-based learning approaches.

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Professional Learning Networks

10 Places for Ideas and Inspiration


1. Facebook Groups for Teachers
a. The link above shows the major Facebook education groups that are
available for any teacher to join. This groups have posts about AP
curriculum, different learning strategies and everything in between.
This resource is a great place to ask for advice and bounce idea off
one another with a group of people that can look at your situation in a
different way.
2. Twitter Teacher
a. This link above shows the major Twitter Teacher Hashtags for
Teachers. What this leak does is it categorizes the different types of
hashtags for the different categories you might be looking for. For
example #k12online for tips and tricks to teaching online and
#Teachpreschool for tips and tricks for teaching preschool
specifically. What I like most about twitter learning networks is that
they allow for you do dive deep into specific learning networks for
your course.
3. Everyone’s a Genuis!
a. This is a blog that specializes in different types of interactive
notebooks and standards-based grading. One of the amazing features
is the different foldable note taking guides that are available for
teachers to use. This introduce a new and exciting way to go over
complex notes.
4. Economics Teachers Blog
a. This is a blog near and dear to my heart because it is for economics
teachers with the purpose of collaborating on economics content and
technology integration. They have ideas for both the AP and general
education classrooms with resources for all technology comfort levels.
5. House of #Edtech
a. This is a great podcast for teachers of all technology levels and has
episodes about everything from student engagement to the 11 must-
have chrome extensions. This podcast is a must when graded and
makes learning all the new technologies quick and easy.
6. Easy EdTech Podcast
a. This is an amazing podcast for teachers who are just starting out
implementing technology into that every day lesson plans and goals
everything from using EdTech for calming and coping to exploring
the world with virtual field trips. What I love about these resources is
what they are all normally free to use and has many inquiry-based
aspects to the strategies provided
7. The EDTech Take Out Podcast
a. This podcast comes in a variety of lengths that they cleverly call
courses and can help you from fully designing lessons using new
technology “Main Courses” and little tools and tricks that you can use
in your classroom “Tech Nuggets” I personally love the random name
generator they use under random nuggets.
8. Common Sense Education EdTech Reviews and Resources
a. This website is one of the go to sources for staying up-to-date with
educational technology. This sources allows you too browse all the
new tools that are there for you. It allows gives you access to their top
picks list which is a regularly updated list of the most innovative
tools your students need
9. Read Write Think
a. This resource is a writer’s dream, it not only gives the templates that
one may need by tips and tricks on how to write and how to be more
creative. This is a great website to get pre-writing strategies and
different graphic organizers that you may need to complete different
writing strategies and techniques
10. OER Commons
a. The linked above website is a public digital library of open
educational resources. Here is where you can create and
collaborate with educators around the world to improve
curriculum and discover new things

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