1. Teachers and leaders should share their work by blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. The internet is an amazing tool to get one's ideas and thoughts shared and read not just by students and colleagues, but people all over the world.
2. Choose to share something that you believe in, a valid opinion, idea, or thought. In this way others can read your posts and be able to get ideas on their own ideas and also you can get input from people who comment on your posts. Share something inspirational or an epiphany that you have had. The beauty of having your ideas and thoughts on the internet is you can get great input from people across the world. This will also improve your Professional Learning Network. Don't share things that you know are false and want to start controversy with. This will not encourage others to read your posts and give you constructive criticism.
3. What students need to learn off stage is confidence in their writing and ideas. Failure hits harder than when you do well. It's something we naturally linger on. By learning to be confident in their work they won't be afraid to share their ideas and as they keep sharing and writing, they can only get better and will be successful.
4. Sharing does not always have to be online. Although, I believe online can be most effective, face - to - face offers a more intimate conversation or presentation. This makes me think of conferences. They are great and all and can be a wealth of information, but many times you have to pay to go see them whereas online blogging is free.
5. The value of sharing everything is a way of improving. As you keep sharing, ideas will be able to be made clearly and you will keep building your network and keep getting new ideas from people who are reading your posts. As the video put it, it is our job as educators to be doing this. This again, will build confidence! This has made me want to share more and more so I can get all the help I can get!
6. By encouraging my students to be engaged in blogging and sharing their ideas, this will build a community where you are sharing and commenting on others ideas receiving helpful constructive criticism that will only help you. The criticism is not meant to diminish you, you will continue to learn.
7. When it comes to always being formal and error free, I think that is a very hard expectation to meet. The reason being is that we are doing this to learn. If there are errors, their will be people commenting and responding to help us. I think we should focus from being formal to innovative. With the resources available to us, we can present in new ways.
8. We can create a culture to use multiple ways to be effective in our classroom. We do not have to stick to one method of teaching but we can integrate both formal and new technological ways to teach our students. We begin by sharing these concepts both in person and online. You can start out small and slowly build your ways of giving information and building a professional learning network that will have other teachers along side of you to help you along the way and you can help them too.
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