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Leadership Perspective

#OntCL Kickoff

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Tonight  the official kickoff for the first Ontario ConnectEd Leaders chat event happened.  Participation was great, and there was an action packed 75 minutes of sharing on tonight’s topic: Why Be a Connected Leader and What to Tweet.

The energy was amazing – great synergy.  I think there is already anticipation of the next  event. Thank you to all participants for a great event.

I have captured a few highlights below.

Additional Resources

Primer of tonight’s #OntCL session from The Principal of Change : What should a networked educational leader tweet about?

The full Twitter Stream of the #OntCL  conversation.

The Ontario ConnectEd Leaders Consortium web site.

~Mark

21st century learning, Leadership Perspective, Technology in Education

Twitter experience becoming richer

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From where I sit, Twitter use seems to be changing and evolving. When I first started using Twitter, it seemed that most Tweets could easily be placed into a few predictable categories:

  • general comments: updates regarding your current activity
  • web announcements: updated my blog at … or bookmarking site …. or read about something at …..
  • resource announcements: great smartboard resource at …..
  • asking a question

Some examples of these type of posts are:

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My observation is that people are now ‘more connected’ through Twitter. By that I mean that I see evidence of more ongoing dialogue within groups of users. Requests for information are responded to. People are connecting for specific purposes.

For example:

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To my way of thinking, this shows development in how Twitter is used. I feel there is a much greater sense of community – at least in the people in interact with. Users also have a better sense of harnessing the power of search terms and hash tags. Twitter is such a powerful tool to develop one’s PLP network. I feel fortunate to have a great PLP team to learn from and I look forward to the online dialogue that is an important part of every day!

~ Mark