1. Developing Your PLN:
An Essential Function for the
21st Century Administrator
Derek L. McCoy
Principal

2. Today’s Explorations
DEFINE A PLN
PURPOSE OF A PLN
WHY A PLN?
TOOLS
INSPIRE CONNECTION
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3. Developing Your PLN

4. EXPECTATIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL LEADERS
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5. NC Administrative Evaluation
Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
Professional Development/Learning Communities:
The principal ensures that the school is a
professional learning community.
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6. NC Administrative Evaluation
Standard 1: Strategic Leadership
Standard 2: Instructional Leadership
Standard 3: Cultural Leadership
Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
Standard 5: Managerial Leadership
Standard 6: External Development Leadership
Standard 7: Micropolitical Leadership
Expectations/Responsibilities Developing Your PLN

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9. PLN – Professional Learning Network
The ‘What’
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11. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK
THE “WHY’
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12. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK
THE “WHY’
Unisolate
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13. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK
THE “WHY’
Continued
Learning
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15. SHARED EXPERIENCE - PLN
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16. PLN Tools
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17. Twitter
Templates
Global Best way to Learning Tool!
connector! learn is to teach
[SHARE!] Sharing Tool!
Social Media
Growing Tool!
Phenomenon!
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18. Twitter

19. Twitter

20. Twitter Best Practices
1 Join Twitter! Find peers and follow!
2 Read what people are sharing: Blogs, articles, research
3 Share information: Retweet, Email
4 Commit to Tweeting a specific amount
5 Lurk and Learn
6 No pressure! You will get more from Twitter if you give!
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21. Twitter Hashtags
#
Popular Hashtags
#edchat – Education, worldwide (lots of US teachers). A really useful hashtag if
you are interested in tweeting with a wide range of educators worldwide.
#edtech – a very wide range of tweets relating to the use of technology in
education
#cpchat – Connected Principals Chat
#lrnchat – Learning chat
#mlearning – mobile learning
#edadmin – Education Administration
#scichat
#mathchat
#engchat
Edudemic Cybraryman

22. Twitter
Chat
Schedule

23. TweetDeck Twitter Management Tools
Hootsuite

24. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK
A “WHO’
John Bernia
@MrBernia
Middle School Principal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5BfdVsmcw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

25. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK
A “WHO’
http://mrbernia.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/our-parent-
plan-for-next-year/

26. Google+
Templates
Multi-Functions Ties into your Learning Tool!
Google!
Next tool in Sharing Tool!
connectivity and If you have Gmail,
Growing Tool!
learning! you are 1 Click
Away!
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27. GOOGLE+
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28. GOOGLE+
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29. Impact Strategies for Both Tools
Google+ Twitter
Sign up! Join! 1
Sign up! Join!
Narrow topic searches 2
Narrow topic searches
Find a way to share 3
Find a way to share
Follow the followers 4 Follow the followers
of others of others
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30. NC Administrative Evaluation
Standard 1: Strategic Leadership
Standard 2: Instructional Leadership
Standard 3: Cultural Leadership
Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
Standard 5: Managerial Leadership
Standard 6: External Development Leadership
Standard 7: Micropolitical Leadership
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31. PLN Needs
•Blogger Newsfeed/Aggregator
•WordPress
•Google
•Yahoo
Video Chat
•Google+
•Skype
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33. Resources

34. THANK YOU!