Communicating+with+Colleagues+and+Staff+Members

What are your goals in terms of communication with colleagues and staff members?
 * Guiding Questions**
 * What board policies do you have in place that help guide internal school communication practice?
 * How are those policies impacted by social media tools?
 * How do you encourage your teachers to keep pace with pedagogical innovation?
 * What is the current filtering practice regarding social networking tools for //staff members//?
 * What research/policy drives your internet filtering policy for teachers?

**Constructing a Professional Learning Network**
[|How to Build a Professional Learning Network (PLN)] Help Teachers Build a PLN (youtube video) [|Nebraska's Beth Still on creating a PLN and using web 2.0 tools] [|Social Networking Sites for Teachers] [|Did You Know? Social Networking] [|Five Reasons Educators Should Network]

[|Twitter.com]
 * Twitter Resources**

Tutorials
 * [|Twitter in 60 seconds (video)]
 * [|Twitter tutorials]
 * [|50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers]
 * [|Twitter Tips for Beginners (video)]

Finding People to Connect with on Twitter
 * [|History Teachers on Twitter]
 * [|100 Technology Experts on Twitter]
 * [|100 Twitter Feeds to Find Teaching Advice]
 * [|Tips for finding folks to follow]
 * [|Finding teachers on twitter]
 * [|The Best Twitters for Sharing Resources]

Twitter in Schools
 * [|A mom's perspective on Twitter]
 * [|Twitter for Teachers]
 * [|Ways to use Twitter in the classroom]
 * [|Can Twitter Change your Teaching?] NEA article.
 * [|Advice for teachers new to Twitter]
 * [|Twistory]
 * [|What Parents Should Know About Twitter]
 * [|Twitter Lessons in 140 characters or less]

Twitter Helper Apps
 * [|Tiny URL] - shorten those web site addresses so you have room in twitter
 * [|Bit.ly]
 * [|Screenr- Create screen casts to share via twitter]
 * [|Get started with Screenr]
 * [|Free Tools to Embed Twitter feeds in a Powerpoint Presentation]
 * [|Tweetdeck]
 * [|Edmodo] - Social networking for education

General Twitter Info
 * [|TIME magazine article about Twitter]
 * [|Teens Snub Twitter]
 * [|Twitter: The Opera]
 * [|The Ultimate Twitter Resource]
 * [|Twitter, Google impact dopamine in the brain]

**Nings**
[|What is a Ning?] [|Educator PLN Ning] [|Nebraska Educator's Ning] [|ESU 6 Ning]

[|Great collection of resources for using wikis in the classroom] [|Ten Interesting Ways to use a Wiki in the Classroom] [|Digital Citizenship Wiki] [|Set up a free, no-ad K-12 Wikispace account]
 * Education Wikis**

**Chat/Video Conferencing Tools**
[|Tokbox] [|Skype] [|ichat]
 * [|New service] ($10/month) to allow multiple simultaneous video connections through Skype