Tech Tip - Summer Ideas

Summer Ideas
Below you will find a variety of resources to help you continue learning all summer long.  I challenge you to try something new this summer.  Whether it is following 5 more people on Twitter, following a new blog, starting a blog of your own, tweeting more, etc...  Go out on a limb and try something.  Who knows, you may find great value in your new adventure.

• 100+ Education Twitter Accounts to Follow
• Top 15 Educators on Twitter
• 35 Educators you should Follow on Pinterest
• 14 Great Facebook Pages Every Teacher Should Know About
• Top 100 Education Blogs to Follow

Hopefully you can find one person, blog, Pinterest page, Facebook page, etc... to follow over the summer to help you grow as an educator.

Star Wars and Professional Development

Lessons on Professional Learning from Star Wars
If you are a Star Wars fan like I am, you will find this blog post from Dawn Wilson on Learning Forward worth a read.  She does a ncie job of connecting Star Wars lines to professional development.  Give it a read today!

Lessons on Professional Learning from Star Wars by Dawn Wilson

Tech Tip - Blogs to Follow Over Summer

Blogs/Sites to Follow Over Summer
If you are looking to explore some technology over the summer, bookmark the following websites and/or blogs to learn more over the summer.  This list is definitely not all-inclusive!  This list is a smattering of some of the blogs and sites Brandon follows.  Not all are tech focused blogs, but many are.  Some of these blogs/sites can really challenge your thinking as an educator.  Choose one or two blogs to follow over the summer and see if you can make it part of your daily routine to check those one or two sites.  Once those have become habit, look for one or two more.

• Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne
• Mind/Shift
• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
• Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
• Dangerously Irrelevant by Scott Mcleod
• Principal of Change by George Couros