Product Description
Professional growth and social media savvy at your fingertips!
This information-packed resource from digital experts Anderson and Whitby makes it easy to build a thriving professional network using social media. Easy-to-implement ideas, essential tools, and real-life vignettes help teachers learn to:
- Find and choose the best social media tools, products, and communities
- Start and grow a collaborative, high-quality PLN using Twitter, blogging, LinkedIn, and more
- Use social media to enhance 21st Century education
- Engage in authentic personal and professional learning
Includes invaluable resources and an in-depth analysis of the social media landscape. Collaboration has never been easier with this must-have guide!
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it’s a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning
Key Features:
This book helps leaders explore the various ways to become a connected educator, through social media sites, Personal/Professional Learning Networks, conferences, and other ways. It also gives a definition to connectedness and shows leader how connectedness is a vital component to a school’s health and growth. This book will give leaders:
- An understanding of what connectedness is and the qualities of a connected educator
- Tools to start becoming connected leaders and educators
- Ideas for building your PLN
- Resources for further learning about connectedness
There is also the Connected Educators Series website where readers can connect with all of the authors of the series, find more resources, and find real support for putting flipped leadership into practice.
