This Week’s Topic in Focus: Growing your PLN
Each month our Digital Learning Team will feature a connection that we feel exemplifies and supports our mission and goals. Our hope is that you find so much value and worth in that resource that you decide to add him/her/them to your own Personal Learning Network. Check out this month’s featured follow:
Matt Miller & Casey Bell
Learn about updates and new feature releases in G-Suite for Education. Connect with an innovative educator each week. Get inspired to empower your learners. Matt Miller and Casey Bell are dynamic tag team partners that will keep you in the know and push you to grow in your educational practices.
Matt Miller (@jmattmiller) is probably most known for his book, Ditch That Textbook. He is also an active blogger and national presenter. His blog site is www.ditchthattextbook.com. There is currently a free ebook being offered with 101 tips on how to ditch your textbook on his site. Matt is very reflective of the learning process and promotes ideas that empower active scholarship rather than passive reception and regurgitation of memorized facts. He also frequently provides specific tips and tricks using G-Suite for Education tools which will breath life into your day to day practices.
Casey Bell (@ShakeUpLearning) is also an active blogger. You can read her posts at www.shakeuplearning.com. She has several free ebooks being offered on her site. Casey is a Digital Learning Coach in Dallas/Fort Worth and she routinely produces great resources for educators using G-Suite for education tools.
Both of these individuals are worth following on their own right but the reason why I am featuring them together in this post is because, starting in January of this year they’ve combined forces to co-produce a weekly podcast. I have listened to every episode to date and have taken away a number of new tips, tricks and ideas every single time. Their channel is called the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast. You can listen using your mobile device (itunes/android) or via your computer at www.googleteachertribe.com. Sit back and listen and then check out their episode notes to start using what you’ve learned.
Would you like to grow your PLN? Do you have resources that you would like to share? We can help you regardless of where you are along the personal learning network path. See your DLS to kickstart a conversation - Cheryl, Melanie or Kyle.
Contributed by Kyle Mack @ProfKyleMack
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