Build your Professional Learning Network and share ideas and strategies with other talented educators. A great way to do this is to start following the iCenter Team on Twitter. Check out their Twitter handles below and read tweets with helpful insights, ideas, blogs, while connecting with other educators on their networks!
A great way to exchange ideas and resources with others is to participate in the local Coachella Valley CUE Affiliate, Cahuilla CUE, or join an educational chat on Twitter. Strengthening your PLN is a great opportunity to network, collaborate, and infuse innovative 21st Century teaching practices and EdTech resources to help prepare your students for college and beyond!
Another way to connect with other educators is through Coachella Valley's CUE Affiliate, Cahuilla CUE. CUE (Computer Using Educators) is an educational technology organization within California and Nevada that promotes the use of technology to prepare students for a digital world. Cahuilla CUE is an affiliate group of CUE and meets monthly to promote instructional technology practices among the three districts: CVUSD, DSUSD, and PSUSD. Check out Cahuilla CUE's website for more information about the affiliate, when they have events, and membership.
Twitter offers several methods for building and connecting with educators around the globe. One method is through educational chats. Twitter Educational Chats are weekly, bi-weekly, and sometimes monthly chats around various topics in education. Chats and chat moderators pose questions around a particular topic and participants respond to the questions based on their strategies and experiences. For more information on chats, check out this article. For a list of available education chats, visit this calendar.