A personal learning network is things like: email, groups, blogs, news and social media used to social network about any of your needed fields. For me specifically, I’d use it for my career in teaching and share and use colleagues to learn more, gather information and tools needed to do my job. It’s important to bookmark and organize the things you use in your personal learning network. Plus, it helps you document your growth in the profession.
5 Professional Organizations:
- https://www.globalautismproject.org/ is an organization that works with autism and helps students and teachers use different tools and resources to get the most out of teaching and learning.
- https://www.naset.org/ is a national membership organization dedicated to rendering all possible support and assistance to those preparing for or teaching in the field of special education.
- https://tash.org/ works to advance inclusive communities through advocacy, research, professional development, policy, and information and resources for parents, families and self-advocates.
- https://www.cec.sped.org/ is a professional association of educators dedicated to advancing the success of children with exceptionalities.
- https://stmsc.org/ works to help older special education people and teacher that look to help them.
5 Blogs or Websites:
- https://www.eduguide.org/content/blog/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjt79mNS75wIVkozICh3rEguCEAAYAyAAEgJsQ_D_BwE provides multiple blogs a special education teacher can use to expand their personal learning network.
- https://www.teachforamerica.org/ is a blog where different teachers post and provide tools and resources to help other teachers across the entire country.
- http://www.breezyspecialed.com/ is a blog ran by a teacher named Brie who has worked 5 years into specail ed and what she uses daily to teach.
- http://www.autismadventures.com/ Offers lessons for teachers to use. Step by step how to do the lesson and what benefits it has.
- https://www.mrspspecialties.com/ is written by a special education teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching at the elementary school level.
3 Workshops for Teachers:
Garden State Summit is every year and they invite Google to come teach how to use their tools to help us teachers in the classroom. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/garden-state-summit-featuring-google-for-education-2020-tickets-62438015786
NJECC Annual Statewide Educational Technology Conference is a conference that views presentations and workshops on professionals teaching in K-12 school and universities. They usually cover libraries and special education. http://www.njecc.org/conference/
Educon isn’t directly about technology but is all about the future of classrooms and some part of that is technology and how much it’s part of our lives. http://2020.educon.org/
Andrew Sawyer 