Social Media as a Professional Learning Tool

Today we had the pleasure of two guest speakers who shared their experiences with using social media as a professional learning tool and as a way to connect with other educators. An avoider of many forms of social media, I recently resurrected my Twitter account and have decided to to do some of my own experimentation with using Twitter.

I am posting this as a means to create some accountability to myself as well as to reflect on my experiences using social media.

Week #1

I tackled the first hurdle, publishing my first tweet as an educator; my finger hovering over the tweet button, eyes closed as I stabbed blindly at the small blue bird icon. And just like that, I had entered into another realm. I was officially a tweeterer… Is that even a term?

Next step: Adding to my lists

First: hashtags

  1. #blendedlearning
  1. #engchat
  1. #onlinelearning
  1. #distributedlearning
  1. #edtech

Second: Twitter handles

  1. @blendedlearningnetwork
  2. @nelliemuller
  3. @insdpire
  4. @thinklangley
  5. @uconnect35

Third: Blog addresses

1. lornacampbell.org

2. Veletsianos.com

3. Couros.ca/blog

These were a lot harder to find, but I’ll be keeping my eye on my feed in hopes of finding more to follow…

Now to see how well this app works …

#postingfrommyphoneforthefirsttime

4 thoughts on “Social Media as a Professional Learning Tool

  • Hi Leanne! I just set up TweetDeck and it is really helpful. I’ve got columns with multiple similar hashtags so it isn’t just the one stream.

  • Thank you for sharing your experience about using Twitter for the first time. We are certainly in the same boat. Your blog posted really outlined the anxious feeling I have as well about being an educator using social media. As the presenter explained, it is important to simply know what is appropriate and what isn’t when using a social media platform. I think it is fantastic that you’ve taken the ‘scary’ leap and embraced social media. Great job!

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