Using Social Networking to Enhance Professional Learning Community West Virginia Institutes for 21 st Century Leadership Spring Session 2008 David M Quinn PhD University of Florida What do you think ID: 628363
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Collaboration through Technology:
Using Social Networking to Enhance Professional Learning Community
West Virginia Institutes for 21
st
Century Leadership Spring Session 2008
David
M. Quinn, Ph.D.
University of FloridaSlide2
What do you think?
When you hear the words Facebook or MySpace, what comes to your mind as a:Educator
Parent
User - do any of you belong to a social network?
Why are online social networks so popular?Slide3
What is Social Networking?
A social network service uses
software
to build online
social networks
for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
Most services are primarily web based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups.
Wikipedia.comSlide4
What is Social Networking?Slide5
Popular Social Networking Sites
FacebookMySpaceLinkedInFriendster
Orkut
Bebo
Classmates
MyFamily
WebkinzSecond LifeSlide6
Create Your Own Social NetworkSlide7
Ning Social Network Examples
http://teachers20.ning.com/http://21steachers.ning.com/Slide8
Get a Ning ID!Slide9
Create Your Own Social NetworkSlide10
Set Up Your NetworkSlide11
Add Features to Your NetworkSlide12
Change Appearance of Your NetworkSlide13
Invite Others to Join Your NetworkSlide14
Invite Others to Join Your NetworkSlide15
PLC Characteristics
Shared Mission, Vision, and GoalsCollaborative TeamsCollective InquiryAction Orientation/Experimentation
Commitment to Continuous Improvement
Results FocusSlide16
PLC and Social Networking - Timeline
2:45-3:45
Collaboration
through Technology: Using Social Networking to Enhance Professional Learning
Community
Introduction
: Chuck Heinlein, Residential DirectorKeynote Address: Dr. David Quinn, Elementary Critical Friend 4:00-5:00 Combined Programmatic Groups: Applying the Skills of Electronic NetworkingElementary Group I and II Middle School Group High School Group 5:00-5:45 Dinner 5:45-6:30 Tech
Time
Applying the Skills of Electronic Networking (continued)
6:30-7:00
Share
, Analyze, Reflect
Groups share the results of their collaborative tasks, analyze the process, and reflect upon the learning experience. Slide17
PLC and Social Networking - Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to link our study of Professional Learning Community and provide an opportunity to develop and use electronic networking to support collaboration.Slide18
PLC and Social Networking - Context
In this activity you are functioning as a small PLC team in your school. For this task, one member of your group will serve as the principal and the other members will serve as teachers on the team.
Select your principal and determine the professional role of each member of your team (e.g. third grade teacher, HS math teacher, MS counselor, etc.).
Do not take the time to develop specifics about your school as might be the case in most simulations. Just assume you are a team from a typical West Virginia elementary, middle, or high school and you are in your first year of trying to become a professional learning community school.Slide19
PLC and Social Networking - Task
Your responsibility is to use the Ning social networking utility to design a plan that describes how your faculty will address a critical challenge in your school.
Define the critical issue your school faces, using the challenge you discussed yesterday in your small groups. Provide a more specific explanation of what you see as the issue the school must address. Slide20
PLC and Social Networking - Task
Design a plan to address that challenge. Some of the issues you may want to consider as you design your plan are:
How will you create among faculty a level of awareness about the issue (challenge)?
How will you create among faculty an in-depth understanding of the issue?
What knowledge-based resources will you need to support your plan?
What other resources will you need to implement your plan?
What is the timeline for the plan?Who will be responsible for developing the faculty learning experiences and who will lead/facilitate those learning experiences?What forms of data do you have and what will you need to collect?How will you monitor implementation of the plan and adjust the plan as needed?
How will you formally evaluate the success of the plan?
Will you as a team develop the entire plan or will you engage the faculty in the design of the plan once they develop awareness and buy-in?
How will you know when the faculty has developed a “buy-in” to the issue and support addressing it as a school?Slide21
Starting Point and Rules
You will begin your task by creating your social network. That means getting everyone online into your appropriate Ning group (use the principal’s
Ning
).
Once each member of your group is online, your group must disperse across the room, with each member working at different tables so the only form of communication you have as a team is electronic through the
Ning
social network. For this activity, you will be using some of the basic social networking tools in Ning such as blogging and discussion forums.