With Feedly…

Read this to find out why reading blogs with an aggregator is an important first step to starting a Professional Learning Network.

There are a few different ways to add RSS feeds to your Feedly account…watch:

Recommended blogs to add to your Feedly RSS feed:

List of Top 50 Elementary Teacher Blogs

SpEd: http://specialedandme.wordpress.com/ or http://teachingall.blogspot.com/

School Psych: http://www.child-psych.org/

Kindergarten: http://www.mrswillskindergarten.com/

1st grade: www.myprimarypassion.blogspot.com

2nd grade: http://sunnydaysinsecondgrade.blogspot.com/

3rd grade: http://thrivingthirdgraders.blogspot.com/

4th grade: http://www.talesofthisfourthgradeteacher.blogspot.com/

For a pretty comprehensive list of blogs for educators, broken down by subject area and grade level, click here.  Middle school teachers can find suggestions by subject area on their school’s faculty web page under Resources.

 

PLN’s with Twitter…

Read this to find out why Twitter is a vital PD tool for educators. Then check out this blog post about how one administrator got his staff into Twitter.

Top 10 Twitter accounts to follow for educators.

Great hash tags for elementary school teachers:

#elemchat

#earlyed

#kinderchat

#1stchat

#2ndhat

#3rdchat

#4thchat

#elemsci

#elemmath

Here are some hash tags for all educators…

#edtech (educational technology)

#ubdchat (understanding by design)

#pbl (project-based learning)

#iql (inquiry-based learning)

For more educational hash tags click here.

Twitter tip: Using Lists