A teacher recently shared with me that she was excited to have her secondary art students use Instagram and she wanted to ensure they would be safe online. To do that she said she wouldn’t allow them to use their real names and they wouldn’t
When Tom Whitby and I set out to write The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning, we wanted to provide a manual for any educator who had a desire to improve their practice, as many have already done, by utilizing social media and other tools.
As part of a recent team-building session at Corwin, my colleagues and I took some time away from the rush of our day-to-day meetings, project tasks, and deadlines to pause and look inward, through the lens of the StrengthsFinder self-assessment. With the related book claiming
This post is dedicated to my PLN, with much thanks. It is 5:10 a.m. and though I’m bleary-eyed, I reach for my phone and access Twitter. I scroll through my feed, as I head downstairs to make coffee. While I wait for the coffee to perk,
In honor of Connected Educators Month, we’re celebrating what Connected Educators are doing throughout the world. If you’d like to share your story, send a blog post to connect@corwin.com. My connected educator story starts with abruptly losing my job in the summer of 2010. I had
In honor of Connected Educators Month, we’re celebrating what Connected Educators are doing throughout the world. If you’d like to share your story, send a blog post to connect@corwin.com. Many people question the value of Twitter and if it can really make an impact for
In honor of Connected Educators Month, we’re celebrating what Connected Educators are doing throughout the world. If you’d like to share your story, send a blog post to connect@corwin.com. We believe that modeling meaningful technology use is an important responsibility that educators need to embrace. Our
The folks over at Best Masters in Education put together this wonderful infographic on the Use of Social Media in Schools. Their findings (see below) show that 96% of students with Internet access use social media. This is nothing if not a clear sign that
On Monday night, Corwin Connected Educators Series Editor Peter DeWitt and Associate Editor Ariel Price co-moderated #EdTechChat, a weekly Twitterchat that discusses current topics in Educational Technology. The topic for that night was Connected Education, in honor of Connected Educators Month and the launch of the
I remember the first time I was called to the principal’s office as an adult. The sweaty palms, my mind racing with questions, my heart in my throat. Questions about what I had done to spark a one-on-one meeting taunted me the whole way there,