Why blog?

David Truss

Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughtshttp://pairadimes.davidtruss.com

Intentions: Understanding challenges & value.Provide supporting strategies.

Links to explore!

Agenda:• Introduction• Inspiration• Perspiration• Reward

Intentions: Understanding challenges & value.Provide supporting strategies.

A place to put my thoughts on Education,Technology, and Learning.

My blog:

A journal that I share….

A journal that I share…. With the world!

My blogis…

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Where I spend time learning!

Where I meaningfully connectto other educators!

Where I challenge myself to improve!

Agenda:• Introduction• Inspiration• Perspiration• Reward

1. Reading other blogs. (I use Flipboard to read blogs I’ve saved in a Google Reader folder.)

2. Twitter. I follow #hashtags like #cpchat(Connected Principals Chat)

3. Learning. I often write about things I’ve learned from Pro-D sessions, books, TED Talks & meetings.

4. Things that happen at school.Events, highlights, lessons, challenges.

5. Community or world events.(Trends, news, inspiration & special events.)

3 Minute chat:

What would or could you blog about?

3 Minute chat:

What would or could you blog about?

Inspiration from:Other bloggers

TwitterLearning experiences

School eventsCommunity/World

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Agenda:• Introduction• Inspiration• Perspiration• Reward

Posts per month

Where do you find the time?

(It does take time, here are some efficiencies that help.)

1. Watch less TV

2. Write about things you think about anyway.

3. If you enjoy writing, it doesn’t feel like work.

1. Watch less TV

2. Write about things you think about anyway.

3. If you enjoy writing, it doesn’t feel like work.

Create some efficiencies: Blogsy (iPad app)

You can add pictures, videos and web links right from Blogsy,

I usually use it to start Draft ideas that I write later on my laptop.

Create some efficiencies: Quick Notepad memos

Create some efficiencies: Record ideas on the go.

Create some efficiencies: Send ideas to yourself.

From Flipboard (Star it)

Share on Twitter, then ‘Favorite’ it.

Email it to yourself.

Use an app to save it and ‘read later’.

Create some efficiencies: Keep ideas in your ‘Drafts’.

LOSE THE FEAR!Take the leap…

LOSE THE FEAR!Take the leap…

Push the button!

You wouldn’t be in the position you are in today, if you didn’t have

something worth sharing.

“We can never know the totality of our influence in the world, or what conversations happen in response to our work.”

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Agenda:• Introduction• Inspiration• Perspiration• Reward

Idea Bank – (Store ideas I’ve thought about)1-stop shop for sharing my ideas on:

Homework, Zero’s, Late Penalties, Grades, Testing, 1:1, BYOD, Facebook, Pro-D,Parents as partners…

Idea Bank – (Store ideas I’ve thought about)1-stop shop for sharing my ideas on:

Homework, Zero’s, Late Penalties, Grades, Testing, 1:1, BYOD, Facebook, Pro-D,

Parents as partners…

I often: Google search my name & topics I’ve written about.

I seldom: Send people links to my blog posts, I usually justcopy/paste my ideas to share them.

Comments – Moving from journal to conversation!

Offer “Thanks”Share AgreementProvide Disagreement

(challenge ideas in a good way)Add value (and new learning)Suggest new directions (new posts)

Connections – We don’t need to learn in isolation!

Conversations in the room and across the world. My learning is OPEN…

How can you use a blog to enhance your learning?

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Thank you!

David Truss

Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughtshttp://pairadimes.davidtruss.com