Continuing Professional Development CPD in an online environment

Continuing Professional Development (#CPD) in an online environment: suggestions for developing your #Language. Education Personal Learning Network (#PLN) 3 rd June, 10: 00 -11: 00, #ILSB 17 Huw Jarvis Founder and Editor of WWW. TESOLacademic. org Promoting Free at Source Research Leading in Social Media for Language Education Email: tesolacademic@hotmail. com Follow us: @TESOLacademic Join our Facebook group: TESOLacademic. org Subscribe to our You Tube channel: TESOLacademic Linked. In for professional networking: Huw Jarvis

Online CPD & developing a PLN: a focus on social media, web 2 and interaction n n n My MA TESOL students were required to participate and demonstrate critical engagement in a range of social media-based channels for CPD. As follows: Facebook groups You Tube Twitter Blogs Webinars

Facebook for CPD n n developing a PLN How many of you use FB for CPD? n n & Why? Why not? How so? -> Bring your own device (BYOD) -> make recommendations, check out suggestions and report back Groups to join (moderated) – start with IATEFL (15, 000 + separate for SIGs) and TESOLacademic. org (12, 000); For explicit links to other social media CPD activities try FB group #ELTChat; Some you “like” and “follow” – try “Teach. English – British Council and Eaquals Association – add a comment about Some are event specific – International Language Symposium Brno 2017

You. Tube … CPD TASK & PLN – e. g. TESOLacadmic. org

You. Tube … CPD & PLN – e. g. TESOLacadmic. org n Browse the 21 Keynotes on WWW. TESOLacademic. org check your answers and select one of interest to watch. When finished post a comment on our YT channel AND ….

Twitter for CPD & developing a PLN Students then Tweet the link and a comment to #TESOL. Include @tesolacademic for a RT help building a PLN n Download the Twitter app (or pair up, as required) n Check out @tesolacacemic; @thornburyscott ; @iatefl; @joedale follow – use such examples to build a PLN n n n RT some of their tweets Tweet something to #ILSB 17 Tweet something from the A to Z blog Got your own favourite blog, website, app, etc? – Tweet this to share with others Try an #ELTChat event

Blogs … CPD n developing a PLN There are 100 s out there n n & Many bloggers use Word. Press – set up an account to create your own blog, it’s also an easy (but not essential) way to comment and follow other blogs A very popular example is @thornburyscott A to Z of ELT https: //scottthornbury. wordpress. com/index/

Blogs for CPD & developing a PLN

Blogs for CPD & developing a PLN

Blogs for CPD & developing a PLN

Webinars for CPD & developing a PLN

Webinars: CPD n n n & developing a PLN A pre-recorded example my British Council #Teachingforsuccess webinar on the affordances of online CPD is available from http: //www. tesolacademic. org/huwjarviseditor. htm There are lots of free webinars. IATEFL and their SIGs have loads, as do publishers and others. The more you connect the better informed you will be of these … and if you want to deliver one Nicky Hockly has published on this and produced some useful tips http: //theround. com/resource/webinars-a-cookbook-for-educators/

Continuing Professional Development (#CPD) in an online environment: suggestions for developing your #Language. Education Personal Learning Network (#PLN) #ILSB 17 Check out our TASK on WWW. TESOLacademic. org