Breakout Session at the November 2012 Atlanta Area Technology Educators Meeting

1. Personalized Professional
Development
AATE
November 13, 2012
http://matthewweld.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/personalized-professional-development/

2. 4 Best Ways
Join Twitter - #1 tool for professional learning - Twitter
is 24/7 learning, collaborating, sharing, growing, and
connecting to great educators across the country.
Watch Webinars
Attend EdCamp - http://www.edcampatlanta.org/
An edcamp is defined as: an “unconference”
professional development. Edcamps center around
group discussion and attendee participation.
Collaborate with those in your building
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/the-4-best-ways-to-personalize-your-professional-development/

3. Media & Tools

4. Lucy Gray’s 5 Favorites

5. Social Networks
Classroom 2.0
Independent School Educators Network
EdTech Talk
The Global Education Conference Network

6. K-12 Online Conference

7. Life-long Learning
http://www.slideshare.net/josteen/highly-effective-habits-of

8. Professional Learning Plan
http://tinyurl.com/personalproflearning
Goals
What I already know
What I need to learn
How I plan to learn
What I learned
Did I achieve my goals? Why or why not?
Next steps

9. Personal Learning
Environments
Videos:
Welcome to my PLE!
Personal Learning Networks for Educators

10. What needs to happen to make Personalized
Professional Learning a reality?
Buy in from teachers and administrators
Leadership has to get it
Go visit other schools
Share articles
Getting admin to model lifelong learning
Providing support and mentoring with technology
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