Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been following the goings-on with Connected Educator Month with interest (he’s been tweeting regularly about it). Now he’s offered some thoughts long-form in a new video about the event, how it’s going, what it means and why it’s important: http://bit.ly/duncancem
Adopt A Colleague
Find a colleague at your school, district, or state who is not already part of an online community and bring them to a CEM event/activity. Then send them the CEM Starter Kit, which gives them one easy way to get more connected every day. Or take one of the many other steps Stephanie Sandifer suggests in her excellent blog post on getting more of the unconnected involved.
Save The Date: Karen Cator joins DML LIVE, Tuesday, Aug 21, 10AM ET
Karen Cator, the US Department of Education’s Director of Educational Technology, joins the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning initiative in a live webinar to share the purpose of Connected Educator Month, why it’s so crucial to connect educators with one another, what we're learning from CEM, and what’s next for the Connected Educators initiative.
http://bit.ly/KarenCator_dmlwebinar
Learning Registry Adds Chrome Plug-In, Solicits Entries For CEM
The national Learning Registry has created new Chrome plug-in for Connected Educator Month and is soliciting new entries to the registry about online and open source learning resources you’ve found useful. Click this link for more information!
http://bit.ly/learningregistry_cem
This Weekend…
- Scholastic will be hosting a Facebook chat on classroom management with author Kelly Bergman (author of 4 Keys to Successful Classroom Management: Professional Development Binder) on Sunday at 7 PM ET
- The Learning 2.0 conference kicks off with a one day unconference all day Sunday
- Looking to get more connected? Two educators, Denise Krebs and Sheri Edwards, share their stories of how they “jumped in” in hopes it will help others do the same. Saturday at 2 PM ET, on P2PU.
- K12 Next Generation presents an online class about matching open educational resources to learning styles on Sunday at 2 PM ET
- The Connected Educator Collaboration Challenge, a collaboration itself between Flat Classroom and TakingITGlobal, kicks off at midnight on Sunday, with no waiting in virtual lines!
- The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) releases the result of its Vision K-20 survey on Saturday, a self-assessment that helps organizations monitor their progress integrating technology in their institutions. The results will be discussed by SIIA in an edWeb webinar at 12 PM ET on Wednesday, August 22 as part of CEM Leadership Week.
For more CEM help and resources, see the CEM Calendar and the CEM Getting Started page, which includes links to our CEM Starter Kit, Help Desk, Book Club, District Starter Kit, CEM Supporter Kit and more.
