A brief presentation explaining the concepts and processes associated with creating a personalized professional development plan and supporting it through digital connections.

1. Personalized Professional
Development
Robert Schuetz
November, 2013

2. How would you describe professional
development in the 21st century?
Twitter Back Channel
#d211sum

3. Personal Learning Network
“Old School” Network
“New School” Network
1. Local community: Purposeful F2F connections -“PLC”
2. Global network: Individualized online connections -“PLN”
3. Bounded community: Committed, collective, group - “CoP”

4. The Big Learning Shifts
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Analog to Digital
Tethered to Mobile
Isolated to Connected
Generic to Personal
Consumption to Creation
Closed to Open

5. Tools for Connected Learning
Audio
Video
Photos
Bookmarks
Readers
Information
Networking

6. Why Personalized PD?
● Take responsibility for professional development,
and model networked learning for colleagues and
students
● Develop a PLN to investigate best practices, and
feature professional goals and interests
● Anytime, anywhere social media spaces to engage
learners “where they live”
● Adopt a “learner-first” mentality that drives curation
and creation of content

7. Who is telling / sharing your web 2.0 story?
What is your web 2.0 story?

8. “Standing on the shoulders of Giants”
1. Twitter for microblogging & connecting
2. Blogger for sharing experiences, and reflections
3. Zite / Flipboard / Feedly social readers for
information curating
4. Google Apps for searching, creating, and sharing
5. iLife Suite / iOS apps for creating new content

9. Why Blog?
● Reflect on your professional practice
● Record and document your thoughts & ideas
● Share teaching & learning resources
● Showcase best practices with examples
● Engage in professional conversations
● Establish or enhance your leadership voice
● Inspire others to learn and share

10. Professional Development - ePortfolio
eTeaching Portfolios - Dr. Helen Barrett

11. Next Steps...
● Build expertise with one particular tool that supports
your professional development needs
● Brand yourself and establish a positive digital
footprint. Focus on outcomes not PD hours.
● Create a digital portfolio that tells your story and
shares your competencies and exemplary works
● Hitch your wagon to online mentors that can take your
networked learning to higher levels
● Allow your passions to feed your learning, model this
for colleagues and students
What are the important pieces that should be included in a personalized professional development program?

12. Credits & References
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The Educator as Social Networked Learner
Jackie Gerstein, Ed. D.
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Connectivism; A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
George Siemens
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Dr. Helen Barrett’s ePortfolio
Google Sites
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Social Media Tools for Personalized PD
Lucy Gray
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How to Use iPads for Personalized Professional Development
Jennifer Carey - “Indiana Jen”