Charge up your PLN!

Date:Saturday January 21, 2017
Time:9:00amPT/10:00amMT/
11:00amCT/12:00pm ET
Location: Blackboard Collaborate








​Charge up your PLN! A Credit Card with No Expiration Date!
Presented by:  Dr. Peggy George  @pgeorge      Kim Thomas  @klthomas79

In these times of severe budget cuts and compelling needs for meaningful professional development for teachers, we need high quality, no-cost/low-cost alternatives. They must be flexible and support teachers who are eager to take charge of their own learning in relevant, meaningful ways at times that work for them (“PD on Demand”). Claim your “Super Hero Credit Card” and learn about how to build your PLN through fantastic resources for free, online webinars, virtual conferences, Twitter, Pinterest, Periscope, blogs, Livebinders, and much more. Charge Up Your Super Powers by Charging Up Your PLN!

In this webinar Peggy and Kim will share a Livebinder full of resources to help you build your own professional learning network through participation in and collaboration with many free, virtual learning opportunities.
*Take a guided tour of specific free conferences, webinars and resources available for global educators and receive an introduction to Livebinders as a powerful tool for curating and sharing resources
*Receive tips and resources for tools that will support your learning and sharing including Twitter, Pinterest, Periscope, Blab, blogs and more

Dr. Peggy George is a retired educator who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and has been a professional educator for over 50 years with many roles including principal, teacher, special education director and university pre-service teacher education instructor at ASU-W. She hosts the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars, is a STAR Discovery Educator and member of the K12 Online Conference Organizer Team. She is an Organizer for EdCampPhoenix and a regular volunteer moderator in the virtual conferences hosted by Steve Hargadon via the Learning Revolution. 

Kim Thomas is the Technology Integration Specialist in the Madison School District in Phoenix, AZ.  For 16 years she has been fortunate enough to be able to follow her passion of working with teachers and students in finding fun and interesting ways to integrate technology. She is also an Organizer for EdCampPhoenix and a STAR Discovery Educator. 
Prior to this position Kim was a 4th-6th grade teacher in the Glendale Elementary School District.

Blackboard Collaborate( full recording): 
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2017-01-21.0846.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350
Tiny URL for Full Recording: 
http://tinyurl.com/ChargeUpPLN-1-21-17
Recording Chat: ​http://wiki.classroom20.com/January21_2017
Audio Recording (mp3): 

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Video Recording (mp4)
Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:  (links shared by participants during the session have been added to this list and also to the Livebinder)
Livebinder Link:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2134280 
(Note: Click on tab for "Peggy George-Kim Thomas: Charge Up Your PLN!" in the Livebinder).
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Classroom 2.0 LIVE: Charge Up Your PLN! Livebinder of Resources Click here to open this binder in a new window.

Google presentation slides for Kim/Peggy: (Also in Livebinder along with recording)
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http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2144898 (Livebinder of resources for free webinars, virtual conferences, social media tools for creating and viewing presentations, Livebinder tools, and MORE! shared in our presentation)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/klthomas79
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pgeorge  

Closing Slides:
http://2017.educon.org/  (Educon 2017)
http://learningrevolution.com  (The Learning Revolution Network created by Steve Hargadon. We now have Host Your Own Webinars again! If you would like to schedule a free public webinar on Blackboard Collaborate sign up on this site.)
http://learningrevolution.com/page/host-your-own-webinar (Host Your Own Webinar
details)
http://tinyurl.com/CR20LIVEFeaturedTeacherNominat (Nominate a Featured Teacher for our shows--you can nominate yourself too if you’d like to present for us)
http://tinyurl.com/cr20livesurvey (Classroom 2.0 LIVE survey link to request PD certificates for live or recorded webinars)