WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.279 --> 00:00:06.628 Hello and welcome to the first ever OAME virtual conference and the session "Build your own PLN with the MTBoS". 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:12.300 My name is David Petro and I want to start by mentioning that I've done this session at the 2018 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:14.969 Leadership Conference and last year's OAME in Ottawa 00:00:15.130 --> 00:00:17.489 but what you're going to see here is a version that was 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:24.420 recorded last fall for the Making Math Moments That Matter virtual summit and given the current state of all of us teaching at home, 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:27.539 I felt that the topic of this session was quite timely. 00:00:28.210 --> 00:00:35.279 So that being said, all the custom links in this session will reference that conference, but they all still work and 00:00:35.829 --> 00:00:38.429 before we get started just a few things about myself. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:46.529 Currently I'm the vice principal of Corpus Christi Middle School in Windsor, Ontario Canada, and if you're not sure where that is 00:00:47.050 --> 00:00:49.829 think of Detroit and then go south. Yes, 00:00:49.829 --> 00:00:57.389 we are one of the few places that in Canada is south of the United States. Prior to that I was 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:01.949 the math and science consultant at my school board for about ten years 00:01:02.489 --> 00:01:07.649 and before that I was a math and physics teacher at a high school in Leamington, Ontario 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:09.580 which is 00:01:09.580 --> 00:01:13.439 possibly one of the southern most high schools in Canada. 00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:17.640 So in this session, we're going to sort of cover all the different ways 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.930 you can use social media to increase your professional learning network and 00:01:22.570 --> 00:01:27.809 I have to tell you from experience, using these tools has been one of the best growing 00:01:28.450 --> 00:01:35.040 opportunities that I've had over the last decade and I just wanted to share some of the insights I've gained over the years in 00:01:35.950 --> 00:01:39.269 being on Twitter, using blogs and other social media outlets. 00:01:40.150 --> 00:01:44.939 Now before we get started, I'm asking that you do this very short survey. 00:01:44.939 --> 00:01:48.898 You can get to it from the link bit.ly/mmms2019twitter 00:01:49.479 --> 00:01:52.349 , that's all one word and that's case sensitive. 00:01:52.509 --> 00:01:55.889 You might want to just pause the video at this point, do the survey and then come back. 00:01:56.110 --> 00:02:01.559 We'll take a look at the results in a few slides, but just do that to get us started. 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.079 You may also want to 00:02:04.450 --> 00:02:07.380 get a live copy of this slide show. 00:02:07.380 --> 00:02:12.360 There's going to be a lot of links that I'm going to show and you're going to probably want to have that as a companion 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.539 copy. So at the bottom there you can see bitly. 00:02:16.689 --> 00:02:20.969 bit.ly/mmms-petro-2019 that will get you a 00:02:21.640 --> 00:02:26.429 version of this slideshow that has live links that you can click on. 00:02:27.129 --> 00:02:34.858 So let's get started with a brief story about collaboration via Twitter. Let's go back to 2013. Here's a tweet from Kyle Pearce. 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:41.069 Looking to add more real word math problems to the database here and he gives a link if you're interested 00:02:41.069 --> 00:02:46.589 please retweet and you throw some hashtags on there. John Orr, he replies how do I contribute? 00:02:46.780 --> 00:02:48.420 Kyle says nothing formal yet 00:02:48.420 --> 00:02:54.659 But I think I should create a submission form. Toss me an email with 1. link 2. courses 3. expectation 00:02:55.720 --> 00:03:01.649 And then he says hey, wait a minute. Why not? Just tweet it to me. You're seeing the interactions of a couple of teachers 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:05.970 just randomly on on Twitter and in this particular case 00:03:05.970 --> 00:03:12.239 I think it spawned a friendship and a collaboration that has brought us the Making Math Moments Matter movement if you will. 00:03:13.629 --> 00:03:17.158 So this session is called "Build your own PLN with the MTBoS". 00:03:17.220 --> 00:03:24.569 I mean the question might be what is the MTBoS? And very simply put it's the math Twitter blog-o-sphere. 00:03:25.299 --> 00:03:30.869 Somebody coined that term a few years ago and it seemed to stick. It's a little bit cryptic if you don't know what it is. 00:03:31.169 --> 00:03:32.500 And basically 00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:34.500 what the math Twitter blogosphere is 00:03:35.290 --> 00:03:40.349 it's just a group of teachers who are tweeting and blogging about 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:41.829 teaching mathematics 00:03:41.829 --> 00:03:49.589 and their journeys and the resources they built and all the things they've shared between each other and it's a way for us to keep 00:03:49.590 --> 00:03:54.690 track of what's going on using Twitter as our main vehicle for communication. And 00:03:55.269 --> 00:03:58.948 you might see that hashtag. We'll talk about hashtags a little bit later, 00:03:59.470 --> 00:04:06.659 MTBoS, a little bit later. But if you are interested, there's actually kind of a neat video. This was recorded in 00:04:08.229 --> 00:04:11.939 2017 at Twitter math camp by Carl Oliver and 00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:19.440 he started a movement called push send where he really wanted to encourage teachers to take the time and 00:04:20.409 --> 00:04:27.119 see the benefits that you got by actually interacting on Twitter. But you can watch this his whole talk here. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.549 But the one part I find was kind of interesting, 00:04:29.550 --> 00:04:37.320 I'm not going to show it here, was his analysis of the MTBoS hashtag and how it evolved starting in 2013. 00:04:37.630 --> 00:04:39.630 And he actually goes through 00:04:39.910 --> 00:04:42.779 how many people used it month by month 00:04:43.990 --> 00:04:49.590 over the next few years and how it's grown and it's a really kind of a neat analysis. 00:04:49.590 --> 00:04:53.700 He actually downloaded every tweet up until that point that had that kind of hashtag in it. 00:04:53.700 --> 00:04:58.619 If I'm using the word hashtag and you're not sure what a hashtag is don't worry we'll talk about that in a bit. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.290 So as I said, I wanted you to fill that survey out. 00:05:02.230 --> 00:05:05.129 Hopefully you noticed that once you've filled it out 00:05:05.320 --> 00:05:08.760 you could actually see some examples of the responses. 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:14.640 If you're not you can actually click on this link here and that'll take you to that. Now I'm actually recording this in October 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:18.899 so there's already some data in here because I've given this talk a few times already and 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:25.500 we're just gonna piggyback on some of that information and you can see some of the demographics of the people who have seen this talk, 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:27.550 who have a Twitter account, 00:05:27.550 --> 00:05:30.870 how long you had a Twitter account. You can actually 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:36.089 see how people are using Twitter. Professionally, personally or for entertainment. 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:41.399 How often you're checking your Twitter feed, how many tweets do you create a week, 00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:47.429 and then for non Twitter users, whether or not you've actually considered creating a Twitter account and 00:05:47.950 --> 00:05:51.419 you know some of the reasons that you might not have a Twitter account. 00:05:51.700 --> 00:05:57.359 And a lot of these reasons are quite valid. Twitter can actually be a nasty place 00:05:57.700 --> 00:06:01.409 but I have to tell you that for mathematics, the mathematics 00:06:01.930 --> 00:06:03.669 community on Twitter is 00:06:03.669 --> 00:06:05.410 some of the greatest 00:06:05.410 --> 00:06:08.549 PD and some of the greatest interactions I've had over the years. 00:06:09.130 --> 00:06:14.969 Alright, so that data will probably look different by the time you're looking at it but take a look look deeper and see if 00:06:14.970 --> 00:06:20.010 you see any trends in there. So before we move on just a reminder that if you have not already done so, 00:06:20.590 --> 00:06:23.369 you can get this slideshow at 00:06:24.970 --> 00:06:31.320 bit.ly/mmms-petro-2019 and that will have all the live links in it. Alright, let's move on. 00:06:31.810 --> 00:06:36.299 So if you're not on Twitter yet, I'd like you to actually consider, create an account and 00:06:36.849 --> 00:06:38.140 sending out your first tweet. 00:06:38.140 --> 00:06:44.169 So pause the video right now, go to Twitter, create an account, and in your first tweet, I want you to include 00:06:44.570 --> 00:06:48.339 my handle @davidpetro314 and the hashtag 00:06:48.740 --> 00:06:51.400 #MMMSummit and a little message of hello. 00:06:51.770 --> 00:06:54.549 If you are already on Twitter 00:06:54.550 --> 00:07:00.280 then I actually want you to start sharing some of your favorite resources on this forum. 00:07:00.280 --> 00:07:03.339 So bit.ly/mmms2019share 00:07:04.340 --> 00:07:10.720 and whether you're on Twitter or not, you can use that throughout this entire talk to share some resources at the end 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.369 I'll give a link that will highlight all the things that people have shared. Now once your on Twitter 00:07:15.410 --> 00:07:21.279 you might want to follow some people that seems to be the thing that people. So I'm gonna give you some suggestions here of people 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:21.949 that have 00:07:21.949 --> 00:07:28.959 great things that they tweet out. One of the things that you'll notice when you're on Twitter is a lot of times people will just 00:07:29.060 --> 00:07:30.160 tweet out comments 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.910 but in many cases one of the reasons that I really like Twitter is 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:41.559 because of all the resources and good ideas that they've shared out and these people here are constantly sharing these great ideas and 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:48.400 great images and great resources along the way. So all of these are hotlinked. So if you click on any one of them, 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:51.940 so if you click here that will take you directly to their Twitter feed. 00:07:52.070 --> 00:07:55.959 You don't necessarily have to be on Twitter to see anybody's particular Twitter feed. So 00:07:56.180 --> 00:08:00.970 you can click on any one of those links go to their Twitter feed and click follow. 00:08:01.370 --> 00:08:04.359 So that you can get all their latest tweets as they come up 00:08:04.729 --> 00:08:10.299 And a reminder if you've got some people that you like to follow that you think everyone should know about 00:08:10.669 --> 00:08:16.119 put them in the shared document at bit.ly/mmms2019share 00:08:16.909 --> 00:08:18.139 00:08:18.139 --> 00:08:20.529 So if you're not sure what a hashtag is 00:08:20.599 --> 00:08:25.809 just a couple of things about a hashtag. A hashtag is basically just a label. That's it. 00:08:25.810 --> 00:08:28.929 And anyone can create a hashtag at any time. 00:08:29.570 --> 00:08:33.010 When you're on Twitter or other social media outlets, if you put a 00:08:33.770 --> 00:08:41.619 pound symbol, that number sign, before any word or a series of characters, that becomes a hashtag. So a 00:08:42.380 --> 00:08:44.919 few hashtags that I really like for mathematics 00:08:44.920 --> 00:08:48.550 the one that I really started following first was mathchat. 00:08:48.550 --> 00:08:54.909 And of course we talked about the MTBoS and the MTBoS hashtag and there's another one 00:08:55.510 --> 00:08:59.979 is also quite useful called Iteachmath. Now if you're on the document 00:08:59.980 --> 00:09:03.340 you can actually click on any one of these and go to tweets 00:09:03.890 --> 00:09:05.600 from that hashtag. 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:10.179 I always suggest sort of picking the latest as my choice and that you can actually 00:09:10.280 --> 00:09:14.949 see people who are tweeting using that hashtag. You see this is quite a 00:09:15.470 --> 00:09:21.220 popular hashtag with tweets coming out fairly regularly. Lots of resources here 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.489 when you look at the mathchat hashtag. When you're on Twitter 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:28.450 you can actually search any particular hashtag by just using the Twitter search. 00:09:28.610 --> 00:09:33.550 Just put in the hashtag up here and you can search it out. So if you like math art 00:09:34.400 --> 00:09:37.959 you can search hashtags like that at any time. 00:09:38.150 --> 00:09:44.799 So mathchat is probably the one that I've used the most. It's been around for quite some time and 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:48.489 you can usually expect to see 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:54.489 something in there that's a resource or a picture or an idea about teaching mathematics and 00:09:55.130 --> 00:09:57.760 honestly when you see a tweet with that hashtag 00:09:57.760 --> 00:10:04.720 it's basically the person sending the tweet saying hey, this tweet is about teaching mathematics. And so that's a really good 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:07.870 indicator that that's going to be a useful thing for you. 00:10:08.210 --> 00:10:13.389 Now the MTBoS was a hashtag that really came around since around 2013 and 00:10:14.090 --> 00:10:22.090 when people started moving beyond Twitter and blogging there was a whole community that started to see themselves as an 00:10:22.700 --> 00:10:27.340 impromptu professional learning network that just sort of organically grew on Twitter 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:31.299 and so we just started including that hashtag in our tweets to really you know 00:10:31.300 --> 00:10:35.349 bring the community together and and remind ourselves of who we were. And 00:10:35.870 --> 00:10:42.310 in around 2017 when you you see that MTBoS hashtag. If you don't know what it is, it's pretty cryptic. 00:10:42.310 --> 00:10:47.619 And so I think it was Dan Meyer that came up with the idea of using the hashtag Iteachmath and 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.729 that way when you included that in your tweet 00:10:51.770 --> 00:10:57.280 you are basically giving a very clear indicator of what that tweet was probably going to be about and 00:10:57.920 --> 00:11:01.810 and it would be a great way to find a resource in that particular thing. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:08.229 So if you've got other hashtags that you might be usingh, I am going to ask you to use that link bit.ly/mmms2019share 00:11:09.620 --> 00:11:15.489 and add it to that list so that we can all see that hashtag. 00:11:16.129 --> 00:11:17.990 So as I said 00:11:17.990 --> 00:11:25.000 there are other hashtags that you can use. I've mentioned mathchat and MTBoS and Iteachmath. If you're in England or perhaps 00:11:25.220 --> 00:11:30.639 Australia you use maths with an S. And so there is also a hashtag mathschat. 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:34.388 Mathart is another really great one for visual ideas. 00:11:34.389 --> 00:11:40.719 I would caution you a little bit about the hashtag math. A lot of people do use that hashtag. 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.439 Let's take a look at what's in that hashtag right now. And 00:11:45.290 --> 00:11:47.529 So in some cases you'll see some people 00:11:48.500 --> 00:11:54.699 talking about math and their everyday lives. Not necessarily teachers and as it turns out 00:11:55.160 --> 00:12:01.750 you know a lot of people don't like math and sometimes they use that hashtag in fairly explicit ways and 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.659 so I would if you're if you're using that hashtag 00:12:04.660 --> 00:12:08.949 or following that hashtag you might want to use that with a little bit of caution. 00:12:09.110 --> 00:12:13.240 You never know what you're gonna get. But the question is, can you follow a hashtag now? 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.469 I'm actually a big fan of following hashtags. I think that 00:12:18.110 --> 00:12:23.019 sometimes when you follow people you'll get more than just resources. 00:12:23.019 --> 00:12:29.529 You'll get conversations. Some things that are personal. Some things that are not just about math and if you're only just interested in 00:12:30.350 --> 00:12:36.459 seeing things about math or a particular subject following a hashtag might be much more useful. 00:12:36.860 --> 00:12:38.740 Now as you saw here 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:42.430 you can go onto Twitter and just in the search bar type in any 00:12:42.529 --> 00:12:48.578 hashtag and you can see the latest tweets on that particular hashtag. So we can do that at any time. So I can put in 00:12:49.670 --> 00:12:50.839 the 00:12:50.839 --> 00:12:52.839 mathchat and 00:12:53.149 --> 00:12:56.799 we can see the latest tweets on math chat. And so these are all resources. 00:12:57.230 --> 00:13:02.920 You can notice that you know having fun while learning the subtract game and there's a link in there. Here's a 00:13:03.649 --> 00:13:09.339 rubric for success criteria here and so typically there's lots of stuff in there that you can use. 00:13:11.930 --> 00:13:15.549 The problem with this is you can only look at one hashtag at a time. 00:13:16.250 --> 00:13:23.380 If you're interested in following hashtags what I strongly suggest and you do need a Twitter account for this so you you can't just 00:13:23.630 --> 00:13:29.320 search this but I suggest or using the app TweetDeck. It's just a website tweetDeck.twitter.com 00:13:30.020 --> 00:13:35.619 Well, once you log in with your Twitter account, what you can actually do is you can create columns of 00:13:36.380 --> 00:13:38.979 any particular hashtag that you want and 00:13:39.740 --> 00:13:45.310 it will create a running tab of what is going on in that particular hashtag as 00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:53.260 those tweets come in. And so this way you can follow more than just people you can actually follow conversations and I 00:13:53.900 --> 00:13:57.219 really found that this was one of the best things I could do to 00:13:57.740 --> 00:14:03.340 find resources because if you're looking for resources on Twitter what you're gonna find is that 00:14:03.980 --> 00:14:06.310 it's hard to find very specific things 00:14:07.190 --> 00:14:13.780 but if you follow hashtags, you're gonna find things that are quite interesting and 00:14:15.050 --> 00:14:17.289 things that you probably were never looking for. 00:14:17.839 --> 00:14:24.729 So using tweetdeck lets you follow particular hashtags and not just people and one of the benefits there is sometimes when you follow people 00:14:24.890 --> 00:14:30.309 you'll get their conversations that are not about math or not or not about the topics that you're looking for. 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:35.169 When you're following a hashtag you can be pretty certain that all the tweets you're going to see 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.469 are going to be related to the topic that you're looking for. 00:14:39.170 --> 00:14:45.099 And one of the great things about following a hashtag is that you're going to see tweets from people that you don't necessarily 00:14:45.290 --> 00:14:52.570 follow and that means you'll see things that normally you wouldn't see and that's where some of the nice surprises come in and 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:57.190 great things that maybe you would never had looked at that came up on a Twitter feed 00:14:57.560 --> 00:15:03.400 that could change how you teach a particular topic. So that's tweetdeck.twitter.com 00:15:03.950 --> 00:15:06.189 It's not an app. It's actually a website and 00:15:06.830 --> 00:15:12.309 it's a great way to follow a series of hashtags. You can essentially add as many columns as you want 00:15:13.010 --> 00:15:18.520 When you're in the tweet deck app. Now, although this isn't necessarily a math hashtag 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:24.849 Observeme was something that Robert Kaplinsky started to really get people to encourage 00:15:25.100 --> 00:15:30.760 others to come into their classrooms and see what they're doing to give them feedback on how to make it better. 00:15:31.160 --> 00:15:37.149 So the idea is you put this note outside of your room. You tell people what you're teaching about. You ask them to walk in. 00:15:38.510 --> 00:15:43.330 Take a look at what's happening and give you feedback on how you can improve the questions 00:15:43.330 --> 00:15:49.119 you're asking. How you can improve the the way that you're doing things in a really informal way and 00:15:49.730 --> 00:15:52.720 you know, it's a very vulnerable thing to do 00:15:53.180 --> 00:15:56.979 but if we really are interested in improving our practice 00:15:57.410 --> 00:16:01.749 one of the great ways that we can do that is we can invite others to watch what we're doing 00:16:01.970 --> 00:16:09.579 because so often sometimes what we think we're doing may not actually be what's going on. And then once you've done this in your classroom 00:16:10.310 --> 00:16:14.590 tweet out a picture of what you were doing and what you ask people to 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:21.280 comment on and use that hashtag observeme in your tweet so we can all share in the learning that you found. 00:16:21.500 --> 00:16:23.090 Now for a lot of people 00:16:23.090 --> 00:16:29.470 being on Twitter means just sort of watching what's going on and in Internet parlance, that would make you a lurker. 00:16:30.560 --> 00:16:34.840 Sounds kind of lewd and kind of perhaps a little less than 00:16:35.510 --> 00:16:37.430 pleasant but really a 00:16:37.430 --> 00:16:42.250 lurker is just someone who's watching what's going on and Twitter is a great place to be a lurker. 00:16:42.250 --> 00:16:48.820 You can watch what people are saying, you can find out what they're sharing and you do not have to interact at all. 00:16:49.280 --> 00:16:53.259 But some of the real power with this Twitter community 00:16:53.900 --> 00:16:58.389 comes from when you start to actually interact with the people that are there to 00:16:58.910 --> 00:17:00.910 really start to ask 00:17:01.340 --> 00:17:06.189 questions and to respond to questions and to start conversations. 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.639 This is where some of the great learning happens. 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:14.199 And so here's a few tips that you might want to consider as 00:17:14.540 --> 00:17:18.249 you're moving from a lurker to someone who's more active on Twitter. 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.989 The first step that you could take to move beyond a lurker is just to like a tweet. 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:26.320 So click that little heart, make it turn red and 00:17:27.709 --> 00:17:31.809 basically, what you're doing at this point is you're telling the person who tweets, 00:17:32.360 --> 00:17:36.640 hey, I liked what you said here. I liked what you tweeted. Thanks for doing that. 00:17:38.030 --> 00:17:41.170 Basically, the beneficiaries here, you 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:47.379 benefit because when you like something and you're in your Twitter feed you can always click on 00:17:47.630 --> 00:17:53.650 what you've liked and it's kind of like a bookmark and all the things you've liked show up in that one place. 00:17:54.560 --> 00:18:01.240 So you benefit because you're keeping track of the things that you've liked. the other person who benefits is the actual tweeter. 00:18:01.520 --> 00:18:08.619 Basically, they get that little bit of dopamine rush that someone liked what they put down there. The next way that you can interact 00:18:09.140 --> 00:18:13.060 the sort of next level is you can actually retweet 00:18:13.820 --> 00:18:17.799 what they've actually tweeted. So you find a tweet. Maybe you liked it. 00:18:17.900 --> 00:18:19.420 But if you retweet it 00:18:19.420 --> 00:18:25.810 that's one step ahead of liking if you ask me because in this case 00:18:25.970 --> 00:18:29.769 not only are you telling the person who tweeted that you liked it, 00:18:30.290 --> 00:18:35.830 you're telling them that you liked it enough that you want to share it out to other people and I think this is actually a 00:18:35.830 --> 00:18:39.129 really important thing to know about the way Twitter works. 00:18:39.770 --> 00:18:42.340 When you tweet something or when you retweet something 00:18:43.250 --> 00:18:46.630 it goes to the top of the Twitter feed. So 00:18:47.690 --> 00:18:51.970 consider all the people who are on Twitter. There's lots of people on Twitter that are constantly tweeting. 00:18:51.970 --> 00:18:57.279 There's basically if you could see the the actual Twitter feed as it is it would be a steady stream of people tweeting. 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:03.340 Now your feed of the people that you've liked that's a smaller stream there and 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:09.160 when you retweet something it automatically goes to the top of the feed and that 00:19:10.250 --> 00:19:16.030 means that if someone tweeted us out yesterday, it's probably long gone by now, but 00:19:17.300 --> 00:19:22.749 if you've retweet it, you bring it to the top of the feed and you're bringing it to everyone's attention again. 00:19:22.750 --> 00:19:27.460 And the nice thing about retweeting is that basically the more people that retweet, 00:19:27.620 --> 00:19:34.600 the more people that have the potential to see this tweet and then that becomes a self-fulfilling cycle and so things that are actually 00:19:34.760 --> 00:19:39.160 really good tend to be retweeted a lot and they get tend to be seen a lot 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:42.220 so they get to, they sort of go to the top of the feed more. 00:19:42.710 --> 00:19:49.600 So again, if you retweet that acts like a bookmark because it's a tweet that you sent out 00:19:49.910 --> 00:19:52.149 so all of your tweets and repeats 00:19:52.750 --> 00:19:57.250 are in your main tweet feed so things that you've tweeted out and things that you've 00:19:57.560 --> 00:20:02.589 retweeted are there. So you can always look through that. Acts like a bookmark just like the like. 00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:04.370 To me 00:20:04.370 --> 00:20:06.370 you don't necessarily have to like and 00:20:07.190 --> 00:20:11.049 retweet if you're using it as a bookmark because either one works the same. 00:20:11.690 --> 00:20:13.690 Doing both is a little redundant. 00:20:13.700 --> 00:20:20.289 But the tweeter also gets a little bit of a benefit because not only do they know you liked it, 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:24.489 they're already knowing that you liked it enough to share it with other people 00:20:24.490 --> 00:20:27.640 that's that's even better than a like as far as I'm concerned and 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.000 the nice thing is 00:20:31.820 --> 00:20:32.960 unlike 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.570 clicking the like button where you benefit and the tweeter benefits now 00:20:38.150 --> 00:20:40.690 everyone else benefits as well because like I said, 00:20:40.940 --> 00:20:45.549 it goes to the top of the Twitter feed and more people have a chance of seeing it. 00:20:45.550 --> 00:20:49.479 So a retweet is actually a really really great way to 00:20:50.450 --> 00:20:52.510 send some good ideas out and 00:20:53.090 --> 00:20:54.740 move them beyond just 00:20:54.740 --> 00:21:00.969 letting you know that you liked it and letting the tweeter know that you liked it and it takes very little effort, right? 00:21:00.970 --> 00:21:05.020 It's literally just a click. The third way that you can move on to 00:21:05.450 --> 00:21:12.100 being more than just a lurker is to actually comment on a tweet. So now you're actually starting a 00:21:12.650 --> 00:21:18.190 conversation or joining conversation and that interaction brings more friends more knowledge. 00:21:18.190 --> 00:21:21.519 So you benefits from that, the tweeter benefits because they 00:21:22.100 --> 00:21:26.469 started that conversation by sending that tweet and that continues and 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:34.030 because it's a comment on this that also goes to the top of the Twitter feed and we all benefit as well. 00:21:34.030 --> 00:21:35.690 So that entices us 00:21:35.690 --> 00:21:40.629 to be part of that conversation. To look at the original tweet and to see if 00:21:41.210 --> 00:21:42.950 we might want to join that conversation. 00:21:42.950 --> 00:21:49.510 So this is really starting to build a community around this idea of whatever was tweeted out at that particular time. 00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:57.309 And finally the last thing that you can do to move beyond a lurker is actually to create a new tweet yourself. 00:21:57.980 --> 00:22:03.880 And of course who benefits here, you do. You're sharing your thoughts and your resources and your ideas and 00:22:04.550 --> 00:22:06.140 when you do that 00:22:06.140 --> 00:22:12.579 you're honing your own perspective. You are saying here's something that I think is an important thing for you to know and 00:22:13.340 --> 00:22:15.080 that 00:22:15.080 --> 00:22:20.380 helps you really solidify those ideas in your own mind and we all benefit from that. 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:23.469 So when you tweet something out, when you share something, that 00:22:24.530 --> 00:22:28.780 means you're saying I think this is a good idea and everyone else should know about it. 00:22:28.780 --> 00:22:33.369 And so we benefit from that. We might join the conversation. 00:22:33.370 --> 00:22:38.949 We might all get a chance to learn something new that we haven't had before. So I really encourage you to 00:22:39.590 --> 00:22:41.590 get on Twitter to 00:22:42.289 --> 00:22:47.408 start by just following some people, looking at some hashtags and when you do that 00:22:48.500 --> 00:22:50.500 try to start to interact. 00:22:51.320 --> 00:22:53.000 Like those tweets. 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:58.359 Retweet those tweets. Make some comments on some tweets and then try to get brave enough to 00:22:58.490 --> 00:23:01.329 actually push send as Carl Oliver says and 00:23:02.210 --> 00:23:04.210 send out your own tweets. 00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:06.250 Now if you are sending your own tweets out 00:23:06.320 --> 00:23:12.730 you might want a few tips on making those tweets visible because you're sending those tweets out because you want people to see them and 00:23:14.090 --> 00:23:21.880 one thing to keep in mind is that typically if you just send a tweet out only your followers will see that. 00:23:23.419 --> 00:23:28.119 Here are some ways to get people beyond just your followers to see those tweets. 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:32.020 So the first thing that you can do is you can add an image. 00:23:32.659 --> 00:23:38.439 Making a tweet more visible has been shown to increase any interaction in that tweet. 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:45.280 So add an image, add a video, make sure there's a link there so that people can see that tweet more readily. 00:23:45.280 --> 00:23:47.280 So it's not just text. 00:23:48.020 --> 00:23:49.640 Secondly, 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:51.640 absolutely, you want to include some hashtags. 00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:58.390 By including hashtags, that means that there's a chance that people other than the ones that follow you will 00:23:59.210 --> 00:24:02.409 see your tweet. So that categorizes your tweet. 00:24:02.990 --> 00:24:07.599 You know, it says basically if you put that mathchat hash tag in there, It says hey, I'm 00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:15.250 tweeting something here about math education. If you're including that MTBoS, hashtag in there, you're saying hey MTBoS community 00:24:15.260 --> 00:24:17.709 here's something that you might like about teaching. 00:24:18.260 --> 00:24:22.930 You know if you include that mathart hashtag you say hey, look at this picture, 00:24:23.690 --> 00:24:27.190 here's some great art related to mathematics. 00:24:27.410 --> 00:24:32.920 So these are different hashtags that you can include in your tweets, so that it 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:39.820 gives your tweet a larger audience and that way there's a larger chance of 00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:45.309 increasing the people that you interact with. You might follow more people, more people might follow you and 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:49.690 along the way have a greater chance of a great conversation. 00:24:50.570 --> 00:24:52.570 And then lastly you 00:24:52.760 --> 00:24:56.229 might want to tag some people. So you might not want to take too many 00:24:56.540 --> 00:25:01.300 but people who you think might be interested in the tweet that you're you're putting out there. 00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:07.749 People who are relevant. People who might be related to the thing you're tweeting out and if you include an image 00:25:07.750 --> 00:25:12.369 you can actually tag the image with them or you can put their Twitter handle right in the text of the tweet. 00:25:12.710 --> 00:25:15.039 So whether you're including hashtags, or 00:25:15.800 --> 00:25:20.529 people that are in your tweet, you also don't want to have too many there because you do want to 00:25:21.230 --> 00:25:25.060 make the body of your tweet much more visible. 00:25:25.060 --> 00:25:29.859 So let's take a look at a few things that I've tweeted out here to give you a sense of that. 00:25:29.860 --> 00:25:33.940 So a lot of retweets here, but when I'm looking at some of my own tweets, 00:25:39.260 --> 00:25:43.479 so a lot of retweets apparently, so here's one of my own tweets so 00:25:44.030 --> 00:25:48.550 it's a tweet about a new post on my blog. I've got a few words about that. 00:25:49.580 --> 00:25:51.580 What the link is here. 00:25:51.590 --> 00:25:59.559 Who might be interested. Who's included in there. People I want to tag along the way and a few hashtags, and then there's an image, 00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:04.689 animated gif there. So there's a lot of different ways that you can do that. Here's one 00:26:05.330 --> 00:26:07.100 also about 00:26:07.100 --> 00:26:09.189 new podcasts that I posted. 00:26:09.650 --> 00:26:15.940 Same idea. Some words. A link there. Some hashtags. An image that goes along with that. 00:26:16.100 --> 00:26:22.600 You know, here's one from Suzanne von Oy. She says basically, you know, she's tagging desmos because it's about desmos. 00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:25.239 She's got a link in there. There's an image. No hashtags here 00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:30.579 but because she tagged desmos a lot of times when people who follow desmos 00:26:31.410 --> 00:26:34.670 they might also see this tweet show up in their feed. 00:26:35.429 --> 00:26:38.659 And so this kind of summarizes those last two slides. 00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:45.650 These are really the ways that you can really start to take your Twitter experience and 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:50.899 expand it so that you can interact far more than you normally would. 00:26:52.290 --> 00:26:58.369 So I'm thinking that if you're gonna take any one piece of information from this presentation 00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:00.829 you might want to take a screenshot of this and 00:27:01.410 --> 00:27:03.410 tweet it out. 00:27:03.450 --> 00:27:08.929 All right, let's move away from Twitter for a bit. Now. I want to say a few things about Facebook. 00:27:08.929 --> 00:27:12.499 You might like Facebook instead. A lot of people are on Facebook. 00:27:12.500 --> 00:27:18.049 We all know that Facebook has a huge huge amount of users on it and within Facebook 00:27:18.049 --> 00:27:20.929 you might want to consider joining a Facebook grou 00:27:20.929 --> 00:27:26.059 if you haven't already. You might already belong to some Facebook groups and one of the nice things about Facebook 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:32.359 groups is you can ask questions in in this community that you know, you have all kinds of like-minded people and 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:35.809 many people might answer those questions. 00:27:35.809 --> 00:27:41.029 So for example, does anyone know where I can find a good unit plans for grade 6 data management in the Ontario curriculum? 00:27:41.040 --> 00:27:45.049 And then you've got a list of possible 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:47.720 people who are answering that and 00:27:48.210 --> 00:27:53.270 along the way they're asking for these things they're giving resources 00:27:53.669 --> 00:28:00.709 they're adding to the conversation giving ideas. Just like you would on a regular Facebook post except now 00:28:00.710 --> 00:28:04.069 It's about math thinking. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on Facebook 00:28:04.679 --> 00:28:06.679 but I will point out that 00:28:06.870 --> 00:28:12.890 the interaction here is a little bit different than on Twitter because it's not so much it is like a feed but that feed is 00:28:12.890 --> 00:28:19.309 much more searchable and much more manageable than the things on Twitter because it's much more private than Twitter. 00:28:20.250 --> 00:28:22.910 And you can include a lot more things that are 00:28:23.820 --> 00:28:25.820 relative to that community. 00:28:26.040 --> 00:28:31.849 So if you're there you might consider some of these Facebook groups. Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math". 00:28:31.980 --> 00:28:38.599 You know, it's got 24 almost 25,000 members. Of course the Math Moment Makers list which has around 00:28:39.540 --> 00:28:40.650 2600 00:28:40.650 --> 00:28:43.339 members and I should point out to you that you know 00:28:43.340 --> 00:28:49.260 don't use the number of members as a metric necessarily because sometimes having too many members means that feed is so crowded 00:28:49.540 --> 00:28:52.859 but it also means that you can have a large amount of ideas 00:28:53.470 --> 00:28:57.569 there. If you have a smaller group, it's a much more focused 00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:01.530 conversation and there may not be as many posts 00:29:01.750 --> 00:29:07.049 but you can know that those people who are there are much more into what that particular 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.939 Facebook group is about. So here's just a few ones that you might want to consider 00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:15.660 if you are already on Facebook and you're joining a group. 00:29:15.730 --> 00:29:20.610 You might consider these. Some of these are open and some of them you have to request to be part of. 00:29:21.130 --> 00:29:23.489 Usually once you request to be part of a 00:29:23.620 --> 00:29:25.859 group you're in you might have to answer a few questions. 00:29:25.860 --> 00:29:30.030 If you've got a different Facebook group that you are part of that you think is really useful 00:29:30.030 --> 00:29:33.839 I'm gonna ask you to go to bit.ly/mmms2019share 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:37.350 and add that to our list. Now 00:29:38.169 --> 00:29:44.849 the last thing I want to talk about here is blogging. Now blogging is sort of the next level of social media. 00:29:45.250 --> 00:29:50.429 Now if you're tweeting on Twitter, that's actually considered micro-blogging because those posts are very short 00:29:50.530 --> 00:29:56.249 but a blog is something a real blog is something that is much longer than that and a blog is a place where you can 00:29:56.250 --> 00:30:02.130 share more detailed ideas in a much more complex way than just a short little post on Twitter. Now 00:30:02.140 --> 00:30:07.290 there's lots of reasons to blog. You might want to keep track of your day to day. You know, what goes on. 00:30:07.290 --> 00:30:09.659 So for example, Mary Bourassa, 00:30:09.660 --> 00:30:13.649 if you click on this link will take you to her blog where she 00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:17.849 basically blogged every day about what she taught in a particular course 00:30:17.850 --> 00:30:19.510 and she basically 00:30:19.510 --> 00:30:24.929 said what she did and I think maybe she did that as a daybook for herself and she just made it public 00:30:24.929 --> 00:30:29.639 so anyone could see that. So it's a really great way to keep track of what you've done and 00:30:30.309 --> 00:30:35.428 you don't necessarily have to make it public but it's a way that you can 00:30:36.040 --> 00:30:42.719 put your ideas down so that you can look at the next time you teach this course and that way tweak what you've done. 00:30:43.030 --> 00:30:46.679 Now I'm going to point out that this word ideas each one of these is a 00:30:47.260 --> 00:30:48.820 particularly different 00:30:48.820 --> 00:30:52.950 blog. I'm not going to go through them all here. So I'm gonna leave those up to you to 00:30:53.740 --> 00:30:56.250 to take a look at whether you're talking about 00:30:56.950 --> 00:31:03.020 Mark Chubb or Sarah Van der Werf or Steve Wyborney or Robert Kaplinsky or Dan Meyer, 00:31:03.149 --> 00:31:08.899 you can take a look at those particular blogs. And there's a lot of people that blog and share resources. 00:31:08.899 --> 00:31:13.069 So too many to name here, but each one of these letters is a different person. 00:31:13.070 --> 00:31:18.620 I'm going to leave that as a surprise for you to click on and see those blogs and 00:31:19.350 --> 00:31:24.949 see all the different things those people have shared. Now if you've got a blog that you follow, of course 00:31:24.950 --> 00:31:26.950 I want you to share it on 00:31:27.029 --> 00:31:32.389 Bit.ly/mmms2019share and blogging it's not necessarily for everyone 00:31:33.059 --> 00:31:39.259 but one thing I might suggest is I mean if you look at the the word blog it is 00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:42.499 it sort of comes from the two words web 00:31:43.049 --> 00:31:46.249 log, sort of like a web diary and 00:31:47.970 --> 00:31:51.709 for the most part the people that blog they're posting their their posts 00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:56.360 they're making them public and letting them letting everyone else see but what I might suggest for you is 00:31:57.360 --> 00:32:00.740 the act of blogging the act of writing something down 00:32:01.049 --> 00:32:05.028 to solidify an idea in your head is actually a really good exercise to go through. 00:32:05.130 --> 00:32:08.149 And I would suggest that perhaps you start a blog 00:32:08.610 --> 00:32:14.390 but you keep it private. If you're worried about what other people are gonna say just start a blog for yourself. 00:32:14.580 --> 00:32:20.059 A web diary of your ideas and your thoughts and you can do that. You can create the blog posts. 00:32:20.059 --> 00:32:27.259 You can make them only visible to you and that way you can start to rethink your ideas and when you put it down 00:32:27.630 --> 00:32:32.989 in a blog format and honestly you don't have to use a blog you could literally just use a 00:32:33.990 --> 00:32:39.260 Word file or a Google Doc or something like that to keep track of your ideas, but it's this idea of 00:32:39.899 --> 00:32:43.819 transferring your ideas from your mind to some sort of platform 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:50.629 so that you have them there and you can rethink them and think more critically about your what you're doing and then 00:32:51.809 --> 00:32:55.579 then if you think you've got something to share with the world then yeah make it public. 00:32:55.760 --> 00:32:58.399 Put it out there and let people see those ideas. 00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:03.980 Just a list of some other blogs that you might want to consider following. There are various things. 00:33:04.620 --> 00:33:09.679 I'm not going to go through them each. Again if you're on the slideshow with 00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:16.169 link's hot, you can click on those links and you can get into every one of those blogs along the way. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.700 Now one of the things when you start following blogs is you've got a try to keep track of those things. 00:33:21.130 --> 00:33:24.270 So a couple of things that you can do is, you know 00:33:24.270 --> 00:33:30.989 if you if you are using whether using Firefox or Safari or Chrome or some other browser, 00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:36.359 most of them allow you to log into that browser and then once you log in you can create bookmarks and 00:33:36.610 --> 00:33:38.350 organize them in any way that you want. 00:33:38.350 --> 00:33:43.020 So I really strongly suggest doing those at the very least creating bookmarks for your blogs 00:33:43.020 --> 00:33:45.010 and if you're using a 00:33:45.010 --> 00:33:47.879 browser that you've logged into like Chrome those bookmarks 00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:53.909 will be on any device you that you use so no matter what computer you're in as long as you're logged in you're gonna be 00:33:53.910 --> 00:33:55.120 able to see all those bookmarks. 00:33:55.120 --> 00:34:00.839 Another thing that you can do is you can actually create like a Google sheet or a spreadsheet where you have little descriptions of those 00:34:00.840 --> 00:34:02.840 ideas and 00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:06.359 create what some people are calling a virtual filing cabinet. 00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:12.419 And again, if you're in this document, you can click on this link to look at John Orr's virtual filing cabinet. 00:34:12.419 --> 00:34:16.499 The next level is if you if you follow a lot of blogs, you might want to consider 00:34:17.020 --> 00:34:20.100 building your own newsfeed with a website 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:27.210 like feedly. So feedly is basically a website that allows you to in upload any blogs that you want and 00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:31.169 when you're in feedly you can then build your own 00:34:31.870 --> 00:34:34.380 newsfeed so this is what my newsfeed looks like. 00:34:35.290 --> 00:34:37.290 I've got all my 00:34:37.780 --> 00:34:40.679 things categorized here. So as you upload blogs 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:47.489 you give it a tag and it'll put it in a various categories that you decide. And then once you have your categories 00:34:47.770 --> 00:34:51.179 you can have the all feed list here, which is a 00:34:51.700 --> 00:34:58.409 brief summary of the title of each blog and maybe a couple lines from it that can be a little overwhelming. Even 00:34:58.870 --> 00:35:04.109 seeing that I've got so many posts that I haven't read there because I do follow a lot of blogs that 00:35:04.330 --> 00:35:09.959 can be overwhelming but the nice thing about something like this is that you don't have to be overwhelmed by it. 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.919 You can just pick it up and read it wherever you're at. You can be in the doctor's office. 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:18.270 You can be at school or at home and just pick it up read a few blogs 00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:23.549 or skim through it and see some things you like and you don't have to worry about 00:35:23.990 --> 00:35:26.030 missing things because they'll all be in your newsfeed. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:32.989 Now as you upload blogs, you're gonna probably want to tag them give them tags to have some meaning to you. 00:35:32.990 --> 00:35:39.770 And so when you do that and you click on a particular thing, you can look in your newsfeed and skim through 00:35:40.650 --> 00:35:46.129 some things that are there and when you see something that is of interest 00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:49.400 you can click on it and 00:35:49.650 --> 00:35:51.650 take a look. You can 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:54.080 bookmark it so if you want to look later 00:35:54.080 --> 00:36:00.169 you know if it seems interesting or you can actually click on the title, and that takes you to the actual blog itself. 00:36:00.330 --> 00:36:01.160 So again 00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:06.530 this is a really great way to keep track of all those blogs in a way that is nice and concise and 00:36:06.810 --> 00:36:09.409 organized in a way that makes sense to you. 00:36:10.020 --> 00:36:14.239 So that's feedly and the nice thing about feedly is that it is a website 00:36:14.240 --> 00:36:18.169 but then there are apps that are a multi-platform that you could use on your phone 00:36:18.170 --> 00:36:21.200 so if you're sitting at the doctor's office, you can be browsing your feedly 00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:24.139 newsfeed to catch up on the latest blogs. 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:26.420 Now as for myself 00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:33.200 I've been on the internet since the early 90s and I've always seen it as a place to share and to find 00:36:33.420 --> 00:36:35.420 resources for teaching and 00:36:35.970 --> 00:36:37.320 I 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:41.299 had an issue where I was finding lots of resources and I 00:36:41.940 --> 00:36:44.359 needed something else to keep track of them. 00:36:44.359 --> 00:36:48.439 And so what I actually did is I actually started my own blog for myself 00:36:48.930 --> 00:36:55.520 to create those or to create a list of those resources that I found. I call it Ontario Math Links. 00:36:55.650 --> 00:36:58.250 But it wasn't always a blog it sort of started like this 00:36:58.250 --> 00:37:04.729 and so this is this is sort of a brief history of my Ontario Math Links blog and how how it came to be. 00:37:05.040 --> 00:37:08.749 Basically, I started in my school board. We had an intra 00:37:09.630 --> 00:37:10.680 internet. 00:37:10.680 --> 00:37:14.480 So messaging within from teacher to teacher and occasionally 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:21.350 I would share out messages to the whole mathematics department or all the the people that were 00:37:21.810 --> 00:37:25.789 in my department and you know as I found things I would say 00:37:25.790 --> 00:37:30.019 hey, you know, here's a math thing that I found the Internet you might be interested in that. 00:37:31.050 --> 00:37:34.669 Eventually, what happened was I was finding so many of these things 00:37:35.369 --> 00:37:37.039 that I was sending 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.008 these messages out one or two times a day and people were actually 00:37:40.499 --> 00:37:45.708 complaining a bit that I was sending they were I was spamming them with math tweets or not tweets 00:37:45.709 --> 00:37:49.579 they weren't tweets, math emails at that point. So then what I did was I said, okay 00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:55.519 I'm gonna create an email and I'm gonna send it out on the Friday of every weekend. 00:37:55.519 --> 00:38:01.789 Here's all the different things. I found in math this week as I'm just sort of hanging out on the Internet and 00:38:02.309 --> 00:38:03.359 and 00:38:03.359 --> 00:38:09.109 what I was doing is I was keeping track of these things on a website called delicious which is kind of still available now 00:38:09.109 --> 00:38:10.769 but not really 00:38:10.769 --> 00:38:14.208 but I was piling up these links they were just coming 00:38:14.249 --> 00:38:20.448 you know week by week, 10 20 links a week and I was trying to find a way to keep track of them. 00:38:20.969 --> 00:38:26.089 Well, eventually what I did was when blogging started to become a little bit more in vogue 00:38:26.089 --> 00:38:31.099 I really saw that well, maybe what I could do is rather than send this email out 00:38:31.099 --> 00:38:34.518 I could just make a blog post about the things that I found each week. 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:39.079 And that's where I started Ontario Math Links. I teach in Ontario. 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:43.099 I wanted to make it a little bit more centric for the teachers that I teach around me 00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:49.758 so I focused some of the tags around the courses that we teach here in Ontario, but they're basically these are things that 00:38:50.369 --> 00:38:57.348 we all teach regardless of where we teach we teach a lot of the same topics. Perhaps just not in the same order. 00:38:58.709 --> 00:39:00.739 Basically, it's a post that I put out once a week. 00:39:00.979 --> 00:39:07.099 I usually categorize these I usually pick one link that I think is my featured link something that I find is really kind of neat. 00:39:07.799 --> 00:39:14.268 Resource links. Things that you can use in your class that are there. In some cases opinions about 00:39:14.729 --> 00:39:16.729 what teachers are showing. 00:39:17.279 --> 00:39:19.229 Video links and 00:39:19.229 --> 00:39:23.688 image links are usually the things that I point out there and then I do that once a week. 00:39:23.689 --> 00:39:25.689 So here's one from the week before. 00:39:25.709 --> 00:39:31.519 Same idea and I can't I can't stress this enough, but honestly, I just do this for myself. 00:39:31.859 --> 00:39:34.008 This was my way to keep track of this. 00:39:34.009 --> 00:39:40.009 So what I can do now is I can think oh, I remember seeing that post about such-and-such. I can actually go into 00:39:40.919 --> 00:39:42.919 the search, type in the topic 00:39:43.589 --> 00:39:45.589 equations and 00:39:45.809 --> 00:39:50.028 it's going to bring up all the posts that had something to do with the equations 00:39:50.690 --> 00:39:53.510 and that way I can actually now search these things because I've 00:39:53.670 --> 00:39:59.780 written a little blurb about each link and there and I can actually find the stuff that I want to find but 00:39:59.910 --> 00:40:01.910 because I made this public 00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:05.899 everyone else has access to all the links that I found. 00:40:07.020 --> 00:40:12.829 This was originally something that was for me, but I thought that people could get some benefit for it 00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:15.469 and so that's what I post it out. 00:40:15.569 --> 00:40:22.849 I try to do curriculum tags on all my posts and these curriculum tags are gonna be linked to Ontario curriculum 00:40:22.859 --> 00:40:30.289 but the topics again as we as I said are all math related, so there are things that you can look at and 00:40:31.140 --> 00:40:34.220 and then on along on the left side, you can actually see all the posts 00:40:34.220 --> 00:40:39.439 I've done since I've been doing this since 2012 the end of 2012 almost weekly 00:40:40.349 --> 00:40:41.940 since then. 00:40:41.940 --> 00:40:44.089 It's just something I do to 00:40:44.670 --> 00:40:47.780 help keep track of all the things I'm finding that I like 00:40:48.329 --> 00:40:52.579 because there's so much out there. You do have to keep track of it all and 00:40:53.490 --> 00:40:59.359 my hope is that someone else can find benefit in this. They can see my summary and maybe figure out a way that they can 00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:01.579 summarize their own or find some things 00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:06.889 from people that I'm posting from that they can follow and they actually don't need me 00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:14.269 to post the ideas I'm seeing because they're starting to follow some of the paper same people and see some of the same ideas. 00:41:15.150 --> 00:41:17.069 Now if you're interested 00:41:17.069 --> 00:41:21.169 you can certainly follow my blog here the Ontario Math Links blog. 00:41:21.170 --> 00:41:25.790 All you have to do is put your email in the follow by email submission button 00:41:25.790 --> 00:41:31.099 and then you'll get an email once a week usually on Friday or Saturday saying hey, here's the latest post. 00:41:31.170 --> 00:41:36.319 It only comes out once a week and it shows you what is popular that week on 00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:40.339 the stuff that I have found over the Internet. 00:41:40.339 --> 00:41:43.909 I should talk a little bit about the perils of social media. 00:41:44.190 --> 00:41:51.290 We know that that it can be a very addictive thing and I really think that you need to go into using social media with 00:41:51.630 --> 00:41:54.109 open eyes and have a sense of 00:41:55.020 --> 00:42:01.849 what you can expect and what you should be wary of. To me the benefits here outweigh any of the pitfalls. 00:42:01.890 --> 00:42:05.890 I mean this idea of building a community of like-minded teachers is 00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:14.829 as I said, you know, this has been a 10-year journey for me and it has been the best PD that I have received. 00:42:14.829 --> 00:42:20.169 I learned so much from my online community that I never would have learned in my school 00:42:20.749 --> 00:42:22.039 staying 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:28.778 closed from the rest of the world and that has really really really made me grow as a teacher. 00:42:29.089 --> 00:42:32.798 You know, it opens yourself up to ideas that you may never have thought of because 00:42:33.529 --> 00:42:37.299 if you don't do this, you're only seeing what's in your building and 00:42:38.779 --> 00:42:42.099 the one of the great things about using Twitter is 00:42:43.430 --> 00:42:45.249 because you're not looking for anything 00:42:45.249 --> 00:42:49.629 you're just seeing a feed of ideas go by you just never know when you're gonna see a thing 00:42:49.970 --> 00:42:52.149 that you may never have thought of 00:42:52.730 --> 00:42:58.029 pop by and show up in your feed and all of a sudden that becomes part of your regular regiment while you're teaching. 00:42:59.029 --> 00:43:03.819 Now some of the pitfalls of social media is just this this whole idea of 00:43:04.759 --> 00:43:10.449 whether people like the stuff that you're posting, you know, what if somebody doesn't like my post? What if nobody follows me? 00:43:10.579 --> 00:43:15.758 What if somebody says something mean about what I posted? All those things are legitimate pressures 00:43:15.759 --> 00:43:21.669 but you know, if you start by just lurking let's say and seeing what's there and slowly 00:43:22.489 --> 00:43:24.489 move your way into 00:43:24.680 --> 00:43:26.299 posting ideas. 00:43:26.299 --> 00:43:29.619 Post your ideas thinking that you're just posting it out there. 00:43:29.619 --> 00:43:36.788 You're not posting it so that people will like it and try not to worry about whether somebody likes your posts or retweets it. 00:43:37.130 --> 00:43:43.150 Just post because you want to share this idea. If somebody sees it great. If somebody doesn't that's their loss. 00:43:43.460 --> 00:43:47.199 Twitter is a place that the feed goes by fast and 00:43:48.319 --> 00:43:51.579 depending on how many people you follow or your friends follow, you know 00:43:51.579 --> 00:43:57.008 that feed goes by faster or slower so they could miss something but somebody might see it and somebody might get that idea and 00:43:57.140 --> 00:44:02.529 somebody might see that idea and use it in a class and they might thank you. Take the note from 00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.699 Carl Oliver and just push send. This is the same video, 00:44:06.799 --> 00:44:09.849 this Twitter math camp video is the same one that I posted earlier and 00:44:09.980 --> 00:44:12.039 just a reminder that a lot of the stuff 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:16.479 he says that I really encourage you to watch that video so that you can get the courage to 00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:23.729 put a post out there and send it out there and don't worry whether people are seeing it and start to join that community and become 00:44:24.250 --> 00:44:25.270 something 00:44:25.270 --> 00:44:27.600 more than just a lurker. 00:44:28.150 --> 00:44:30.300 You know just the fact that you're here watching 00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:36.179 this video means part of you're part of this community already and so help other teachers in your schools 00:44:36.180 --> 00:44:39.330 that may not be part of these communities expand their 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:46.649 professional learning network into this electronic world so that they can expand their ideas and help their students move forward. 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:52.139 So that just about does it for me. I'm gonna point out to you that I blog a fair bit. 00:44:52.140 --> 00:44:56.790 I have a few blogs of my own. Of course the Ontario Math Links I've talked about. 00:44:57.609 --> 00:45:02.939 Engaging math is a blog that I put together with my teaching partner Gisele Jobin and together 00:45:03.130 --> 00:45:09.869 we've got about 150 to 170 activities. Some paper and pencil. Some that are 00:45:10.660 --> 00:45:15.330 card activities. Some that are electronic. And they're all sorted by 00:45:16.630 --> 00:45:21.270 Ontario standard, but also by topics as well, so if you wanted to find something for 00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:24.900 division you can 00:45:25.359 --> 00:45:32.159 find this activity. If you want activities that are dynamic web sketches, we've got a tab specifically for those. 00:45:33.130 --> 00:45:34.990 Desmos activities. 00:45:34.990 --> 00:45:38.939 Desmos geometry videos those are all there. And so like I said, there's about 00:45:39.640 --> 00:45:44.760 150 to 170 activities and we're adding to them all the time. Also 00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:47.040 I've got my found data blog and 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:53.549 what this site is is basically a place for me to house all the data sets that I have found that could be used in 00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:55.680 statistics classes. So 00:45:56.260 --> 00:46:04.109 again, I've got these sorted by topic and things that you might find interesting whether they be topics that the 00:46:04.109 --> 00:46:08.969 data is about or topics, statistical topics like dot plots and that would be all the 00:46:09.820 --> 00:46:13.919 datasets that would be appropriate for use in dot plots. And so this is 00:46:14.470 --> 00:46:22.199 something that I post to less frequently and I've got actually a whole bank of them that I have to get to but I haven't posted yet 00:46:22.359 --> 00:46:27.689 but it's a site that you can go to to get datasets ready to use for your statistics classes and 00:46:28.420 --> 00:46:30.420 all the data sets are usually 00:46:30.550 --> 00:46:34.709 given in there original form as a Google Sheet, as a CSV, CODAP 00:46:34.810 --> 00:46:38.370 which is a great statistical program and now desmos which does stats. 00:46:39.160 --> 00:46:42.840 You can get all those versions in that site. 00:46:44.020 --> 00:46:49.320 So if you want to add more links you can go to bit.ly/mmms2019share 00:46:49.990 --> 00:46:53.250 as I've been saying throughout this talk. 00:46:54.010 --> 00:46:59.310 To see what people have shared you can click on this link here. mmms2019shared 00:46:59.890 --> 00:47:02.400 with a D and 00:47:02.770 --> 00:47:08.340 that will get you to the spreadsheet of all the things that people have shared along the way through all the times 00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:14.429 I've given this presentation and of course this slideshow with all the live links in it. Is that bit.ly/mmms-petro-2019 00:47:15.460 --> 00:47:19.980 Hope you got something out of this 00:47:20.680 --> 00:47:24.810 brief talk about how you can get the most out of social media and 00:47:25.540 --> 00:47:31.409 if you have any questions, you can get me on twitter @davidpetro314 and 00:47:32.050 --> 00:47:34.439 I hope you enjoy the rest of your conference.