People as Resources
Expand your PLN (personal learning network)
by following/joining the people
behind these Web 2.0 social sites and creations
relating to the IBO programmes
The IBO on Twitter
Hashtags
Wikis/websites which maintain lists of people in the IBO programmes
List of IB teachers on Twitter
IB Teachers Directory -- for DP teachers - organized by subjects
Lists maintained by individual people on Twitter:
@whatedsaid - PYP Educators - following 63+ people
@k_eepps - PYP Threads - following 105+ people
@DwyerTeacher - IB PYP - following 74+ people
@librarianedge - IB People - following 73+ people
Nings
PYP group on Flat Classrooms - "transforming learning through global collaboration"
IASL Meeting Place -- International Association of School Librarianship
Blogs
TO DO -- suggest some more, please! Use this form....
IBO Blogs, e.g., Sharing PYP Practice
Library Grits -- Dianne McKenzie [TL], Discovery College, Hong Kong
What Ed Said -- Edna Sackson, Mt. Scopus Memorial College, Australia
Born in 1984 -- Christine Usyak [ICT], Yokohama International School, Japan
farrinsight: tech+libraries+education -- Brian Farrell [TL], Yokohama International School, Japan
Grow a Knowledge Tree -- Rhonda Carrier in the US
Tech Transformation -- Maggie Hos-McGrane at the Int'l School of Central Switzerland
Tip of the Iceberg -- Keri-Lee Beasley [ICT] at UWCSEA East, Singapore
Watch Your Bobber -- Tod Baker [ICT] at Int'l School of Tianjin, China
Everyone Has to Start Somewhere -- Megan Graff [TL] at the Canadian Int'l School, Singapore
The Librarian Edge -- Katie Day [TL] at UWCSEA East, Singapore
Sam's Workshops -- Sam at New Int'l School Thailand, Bangkok
Using ICTs @ ISOCS -- Kathy Epps [ICT] at Int'l School of Central Switzerland
Library and Information Literacy -- Beth Gourley [TL] at Int'l School of Tianjin, China
Learning2Learn -- Leanne Windsor [TL] at Tokyo International School, Japan
Alice's Posterous -- a modern foreign language teacher, e.g., see her blog post "Teaching French for the IB PYP"
fiLearning: A personal journey into the world of Information Literacy, Literature and PYP Libraries for the 21st century -- Fiona Birkin [TL] - in Melbourne, Australia
My PYP Journey -- Patrick O'Sullivan in China, soon to move to Jeddah
Junior School Library -- Julia Bolton at St. Andrews Lutheran College, Australia
PYP Explorers -- collaborative blog at the International School of Modena, Italy
Tanja's Journey -- Tanja Galetti is a teacher-librarian at a PYP school in West Africa
Life Long Learning - My Journey! -- Leanne Sercombe, PYP Teacher-Librarian in Hong Kong
Re-think Learning - Jessica in Modena, Italy
Nina's Arena-Teaching & Learning in the Australian Primary Classroom --
Makingthinkingvisible's Blog - Gareth Jacobson
Teaching Mahollitz: Tales from a Third Grade Classroom -- Erin Mahollitz in Estonia
A Teacher's Wonderings - Christina Milos
Mrs. H - TL - Angela Harridge in Melbourne
Of related interest: see this wiki IBWIKIS which collects links re Diploma Programme teachers using blogs & wikis
Blogs by classes or schools
1EB @ NIST in Bangkok
NB: You can subscribe to these blogs using an RSS Reader like Google Reader.
This is Katie Day's public RSS page for her "PYP" folder.
Netvibes
A Netvibes of international school webpages - via PYP Threads
List of school Netvibes pages - not all PYP; some overlap with the list above
Wikis
Librarian Continuum Workshop - ongoing repository of materials gathered for and during the Asia-Pacific IB workshops
PYP Exhibition Connection -- a collaboration wiki for a group of PYP schools in Asia
PYP Library Space -- created by Dana Dukic in HK - a place to gather lists of books relating to the Learner Profile and Attitudes
IB Learner Profile Matrix - in the library - created by Yvonne Barrett and Ingrid Skirrow
WLI (Wendy Liao's Teaching Resources) - Mandarin PYP teacher in Singapore
PYPEAN Collaborative website - for East Asia PYP teachers
Slideshare
List of slideshow presentations tagged "PYP" -- shared by various people, including introductions to the PYP, to inquiry-based learning, to the PYP Exhibition, etc.
Listservs / Forums
ECIS iSkoodle Forums - you do have to join before you can read/contribute -- but this is one of the most active places where IB librarians exchange information online. See below how there is one thread set up for IB discussions, but people participate in all.
IB Librarians (Google Group listserv) - a fairly recent initiative, started after the Sydney Librarian Continuum workshop
SILCAsia (Yahoo Group listserv) -- for school librarians in Asia
Groups to follow
PYP Threads - created by Kathy Epps (Int'l School of Central Switzerland)
IST Today -- for teachers at the Int'l School of Tianjin, China
UWC Teachers - for teachers at UWCSEA East
Portfolios - created by Tod Baker (Int'l School of Tianjin, China)
Accounts/people to follow
Rhona Polonsky (Jakarta International School)
ISOCS (Int'l School of Central Switzerland) Library
Public lists of resources relating to the six transdisciplinary themes
All resources in Diigo tagged "pyp"
Delicious
PYP Teachers/Librarians to add to your network:
Flickr
Illustrating the PYP -- a Flickr pool
Making Thinking Visible -- a Flickr pool
PYP-related Photos -- a set by Katie Day (UWCSEA East)
LibraryThing
Shelfari
Goodreads
WorldCat
Facebook