1. The Connected Educator Connect Collaborate Contribute

2. Let’s Focus on the Why

3. Skype Visit with some Connected Educators 1. Who are you? 2. Where do your live? 3. What is your position? 4. What is your top reason for being a connected educator?

4. What’s My Top Reason? You Can Only Grow as Large as your container

5. Why is becoming Connected so Important? We can’t give what we don’t own.

6. Who are you Creating? We create ourselves drop by drop with every… Intention Thought Action Reaction

7. Consider This Do those intentions, thoughts, actions and reactions tend to make you… Expand Or Contract?

8. Our Trends as Individuals and as an Organization are: The Direction of Our Creation Including vs. Division Valuing vs. Hierarchy Infinite vs. Zero Sum Empowering vs. Managing Expanding vs. Restricting Influencer vs. Criticizer We vs. Us and Them

9. Apathy Busy/Preoccupation Anxiety/Worry Overwhelm Fear Resistance Anger Default Creation Often Driven by You’re doing to end up somewhere no matter what !

10. Work and the Rest of Your life: can they really be separated? Becoming a living example of what you want to create for: 1. Yourself 2. Your students 3. Your family 4. Your friends 5. Your colleagues

11. Being Part of Something Bigger Connecting yourself to others

12. Isn’t this ‘just more on our plate’? Weeding out the closet criteria: Focus on Effectiveness, Quality, and Efficiency Is it required? Does it expand? Does it add quality? Is it the most efficient and effective way?

13. Embed it into what you’re already doing By living it, it becomes part of what you do naturally Authentic Learning for ourselves Conscious choices about what we do and how we do it

14. What We Already Do, so Embed it! Plan Communicate Create Research Investigate Organize Present Display

15. A Reminder of Our Place in the World as Educators

16. To Become a Connected Educator, you must become a connected learner

17. New to this? Start at the Top Connect Collaborate Contribute

18. Twitter A Large deep-sea fishing net that captures and pulls EVERYTHING to you.

19. Blogs, Facebook and Google+ Are oysters that contain both sand and pearls Individual posts can be pearls

20. Edmodo, Wikispaces and Livebinders Where the Cool Kids go to Share and Trade

21. What is a PLN?

22. PLN (Personal Learning Network) Your galaxy…you choose your own stars and planets

23. Collaborative Organizations Are Matchmakers

25. Fear to Empowerment Scott McLeod

26. Now What? Start SMALL Connect yourself before you can connect your learners. Choose your top 3 things Focus on those for 10 minutes a day

27. Some Connection Choices Twitter Edmodo Wikispaces Livebinders Blogs Linkedin Let’s get into groups by tool preference and play!