Activity 8: Create or extend your professional social media networks

Create or extend professional social media networks

Provide evidence (links/pictures) of your professional involvement in social media networks. Briefly discuss one or more platforms that you feel best supports engagement with your professional development.

Use of Facebook page- 

During the course of the the DCL paper we have been encouraged to use the social media channels that are available to us to connect to our colleagues. I have joined the group and this has greatly enhanced my professional development because it has given a chance to ask questions outside of lectures.

The way students on the DCL course were able to share resources and articles was really helpful as some of the students hadn't studied through an online portal before. Some of my queries and questions also provided answers for other students who were wondering similar queries.

Tanya Kearney, 2015

The following blogs have been developed recently and I have found them most useful to my own immediate professional learning as Sepcial Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) at my school and also to track what I have covered in my learning thus far as an educator in the DCL course.

RTLB SENCO's Network

The SENCO blog is a good place for all of the SENCOs in our cluster to share resources, ideas and also to update the Resource Teacher of learning and Behaviour (RTLB service) professional development forums. These are essential for learning new approaches, systems such the recent Barbara Bran PLD that I attend along with other SENCOS. 

LOU REDDY's APC blog

This blog has been a great tool for me to gather and share my ideas with my peers. Although I don't get as much traffic as other bloggers, I have learned a lot from this course and so am really keen to share my learning through a blog. Similarly I have taught my students to do the same through the Wesley News Blog that I have discussed in previous assignments.