I'm delighted you have joined The Innovative Educators professional learning network. Networking is a tremendously valuable tool to connect innovative educators who want to share ideas and build their personal learning networks.

I welcome you to take a look around this site, but for more interaction, please visit http://TED21C.ning.com as I've moved most of what is happening here, over there.

More information
*Follow The Innovative Educator blog
* Read about Social Networking for Innovative Educators
* Read Why Every Teacher Should Learn MySpace and Facebook and A 30-Day Guide To Losing Your Digital as a Second Language (DSL) Accent
* Create a Ning Network for your own class, group, project, or event
* Discover how to use Ning in Education
* Trial program details - free networks for educators (ad-free)
* Check out PanWapa, a social network for early elementary students

Here are 10 tips to get started.
1-Add your photo or avatar (go to settings on the top right) so those interacting with you have a better sense of who you are. Those who add a photo or avatar become featured members!
2-Introduce yourself in the "Introduction" forum discussion.
3-Participate in a forum discussion or start one of your own.
4-Click on the "Groups" tab above & join a group (lit, sci, tech, special needs, etc.).
5-Invite colleagues to join & participate in discussions & connect to others.
6-Click on the Members tab above to see who if you have colleagues that are members. Send them an email or leave a comment on their page.
7-Click on My Page above & customize your page. This contains your groups & discussions. It is also a space for you to create a blog for posts that will be featured on this site.
8-Share Events happening at your school. See Events happening at other schools.
9-Share this site during PD to begin conversations and keep them going.
10-Read your colleague's blogs found in the right-hand navigation.

Many members of this social network have blogs. Visit the links in the right-hand navigation to see what they're writing about. If you have a blog you'd like added, please leave a comment here with your blog url, blog name, and a short description of your blog. If you're an innovative educator without a blog it's time to start one. If you need some convincing read my post explaining Why I started a blog and maybe you should too.

Whether you have your own blog or not, you can share your ideas about educating innovatively below at The Innovative Educator blog. To do so, simply go to "My Page" on this site and add a blog entry you think members would find of interest. Once posted, other members can read and comment on what you have to share.