Follow, Find, and Take

This week after reading chapter 3 of Whitaker's book, What Connected Educators Do Differently,  we were instructed to follow a connected educator, find one resource or tool, and take one new action step. I decided to begin following all of the connected educators that my classmates will be interviewing this week. This includes Vicki Davis, Susan Stewart, Ryan Wiggins, Will Kimbley, Jimmy Casas, Jim Sill, and John Eick. For the resource, I wanted to find something that would be useful to those looking to build their PLN. What I found was a post on the Edutopia website titled How to Use Twitter to Grow Your PLN. One of the action steps suggested by Whitaker that I plan to take is to create a school Twitter account which will be used to connect with staff, students, and parents. I decided to hold off on actually creating the account until I am able to get administrator approval.