Session: Social Media ~ Building a Professional Learning Community

Social Media is prevalent in all walks of personal and professional life. We will discuss how Social Media can be used as a professional learning tool to connect with colleagues from GSSD and/or from around the world.

Outcomes:

• Participants will learn the value of Social Networking

• Learn how Social Networking can be used in PLC’s

• Participants will a create a professional learning community

 

 

Shorten URL’s (Good practice when sending link via email too)

Url Shorteners Long URLs are simply hard to pass along. The links tend to sometimes break in email, are harder to verbalize in a conversation, and they are difficult, or in some cases near impossible to remember. There are a number of them available including:

Bit.ly (one URL at a time)

Fur.ly (multiple URLs at a time)

Doiop allows you to do is actually define your own keyword so you can give your short link some context, something simple which many URL shortening services just don’t offer.

Ow.ly one of the shortest URL shorteners-can connect directly to your Twitter account. Part of the HootSuite set of tools for social networking posts.

 

 

Facilitators: Michelle Morley, Gary Alzomal and John Tropin