Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Now Following...

I'm not talking blog following, because that list would go on forever.  But what, or who, do you follow to keep yourself educationally and professionally informed?  Where do you get your education news?

If you follow my blog, then you know I love this nerdy stuff.  I often times have people ask me how I manage to stay "up to date" on so many different education ideas or technology updates.  I don't necessarily feel like I am that current on that much, but I must admit that technology has become a somewhat unexpected hobby of mine.  I think I know about as much as a teenager.

So I thought I'd put together a list of education(ish) things/companies/websites that I follow both professionally and personally.  Social media keeps it pretty simple to get the news delivered to you without actually doing anything about it.  I don't follow every company on all of it's social media because they typically post the same thing to everything (facebook, twitter, google+, etc) so if I follow one, I feel like I've got it.  However, I do randomly choose which social media outlook to choose just to keep me regularly checking each of them and feel "hip and with it".  I have apps for each, so I can click quickly and read some highlights if I need to.

After I put this all in writing, it does seem like a lot... I swear it doesn't seem like that much when I'm getting daily updates and I can breeze through them.

So here it is...organized by social media outlet, complete with links.  It's a tad bit lengthy, but a quick read...I promise!  Click away!

Old Fashioned Email and Newsletter Sign ups

http://www.sophia.org/


http://www2.smartbrief.com/signupSystem/subscribe.action?pageSequence=1&briefName=nctm

https://www.edsurge.com/


https://www2.smartbrief.com/getLast.action?mode=sample&b=ASCDLeaders


http://www.smartbrief.com/industry/education


http://newsela.com/


https://www.educents.com/




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Twitter

https://twitter.com/OfficeofEdTech


https://twitter.com/usedgov



https://twitter.com/gatesed

https://twitter.com/TEDTalks

...along with all the usual local and national news stations.


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Google+

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleforEducation/posts


https://plus.google.com/+codeorg/posts


https://plus.google.com/+TechCrunch



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Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/SMARTClassrooms


https://www.edsurge.com/


https://www.educents.com/


https://www.facebook.com/tenmarks


https://www.facebook.com/erincondrendesign


https://www.facebook.com/PearsonEducation


https://www.facebook.com/InternationalReadingAssociation


https://www.facebook.com/ScholasticTeachers‎


http://www.mimioconnect.com/

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What am I missing??  What should I be adding to my reading list??

Happy Teaching!

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