connected educator month 2012
DESCRIPTION
Keynote talk on Connected Education Month given at PLP Live in September 2012TRANSCRIPT
#ce12
• 389 activities and events hosted by 151 organizations involving over 2,200 speakers
• At least 90,000 hours of professional development completed
• Average of 1.2 million twitter impressions a day for our hashtags, 4 million + “followers”
• Google search for “Connected Educators Month” yields 251,000 results
• Open Houses & Guided Tours
• Collaborative Projects & Activities/Events
• Games• Mobile & iPads• Global Education• Common Core• Flipped Classrooms• Informal & Peer PD• Getting Connected and
Why (incl. lots of testimonies by connected educators)
• Using New Technologies (How and Why--everything from blogs to whiteboards)
• New Technologies on the Horizon (and getting buy in for what’s already there)
• New Ways of Thinking, New Pedagogies
• The First Six Weeks of School (classroom management, etc)
• Ed Reform, Distributed Leadership
• Student Achievement, Teacher Productivity (efficiency, saving time)
• Leadership (esp. during Leadership Week)--building, district, state
Making It Work for You
• Follow and tweet with #ce12 • Use the starter kit • Review the calendar, find stuff you
wished you’d participated in – Join their communities and networks – Participate in their upcoming events
• Check out assess4ed.net & EPICed.org • Help us figure out what CEM 2013 should
look like and how to make it happen