Join our BYOD community and get contact hours from BGSU!

Did you know that you can receive up to 18 contact hours from Bowling Green State University by joining the community of connected educators interested in discovering what it means when we empower students to BYOD. As a part of the community you are invited to participate in Google Hangouts, BYOD Twitter chats, interact on the BYOD Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BYODK12 and contribute posts to this blog!

Interested? 

Register at: http://www2.bgsu.edu/colleges/edhd/pdregister.html

Look for “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Learning Community” and select the yellow button that says “Register.” You will receive information with further details, links to online communities, and requirements for contact hours after registering. 

How to contribute to the BGSU Blog

What's your BYOD story? Members who signed up (or plan to sign up) for the BGSU BYOD learning community (you can register here) can get up to 18 contact hours (visit this link for details) for sharing their stories on this blog. Here's how.

1) Write you post and send it to a peer to review and edit. 

2) Once you register for the BGSU BYOD learning community you will be invited via email as a blog contributor. After you accept your invitation, this blog will be listed as one of your blogs.

3) Visit www.blogger.com/home and select the pencil icon to create a new post as indicated below.

BYOD, Communities and Learning

By Pamela Livingston


Note: Pamela Livingston was a guest in our latest Google Hangout "Cultivating a Culture of Community." In this post she expands upon her advice in the Hangout.  

When invited to visit BYOD schools, I pose two overarching questions

• How are students involved in using technology here?
• How will technology grow your learning community?

These questions become extremely important with BYOD programs. They are important because if you are expecting students to supply their own device for learning, you need to ensure two things are in place.  

1. Students are fully involved and on board right away. Bring students into committees and have them part of surveys and the planning, ask their opinions as experts.  They reside in the digital world and are your most impacted stakeholders in terms of their current and future academic, career, professional and personal lives. And keep asking them, many times – formally and informally. Follow up on their ideas and suggestions. If BYOD is bought in as a strategy by the students who understand your respect and understanding of them and who realize the entire program was built with their buy-in and feedback - you will have tee’ed up your program for success.

2. Schools needs to be brought together with technology. With BYOD, schools should not be segmented into classroom silos of technology. Instead, technology should bring schools together. The school should have an overarching online community for social learning where everyone can communicate and collaborate in whole-school groups, in whole-grade groups, in whole classroom groups, and in project-based groups. This should be the same social community not a different one in each classroom, grade level, division, or school. Build and grow your online social learning community with your students so they have uniformity and connectivity as they move through your educational institution – and so that teachers can have ONE place for their professional learning communities and adult professional discussion forums year-after-year.

You can hear Pamela Livingston discuss this and more in our Google Hangout recording which you can access here.

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Pamela Livingston is the author of ISTE's book "1-to-1 Learning : Laptop Programs That Work", Pamela has written for educational publications and presented/keynoted in the U.S.and overseas.  She previously led technology at K-12 schools. Her Web site is http://www.pamelalivingston.com/

Live tonight! Google Hangout on Air - Cultivating a Culture of Community

Our first Google Hangout took place on November 4th at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.  Visit the "Google On Air" tab at http://byodbgsu.blogspot.com/p/google-on-air.html to view the hangout.

Topic "Cultivating a Culture of Community." 

During the hangout guests discuss the following:

• Why creating a culture of community is important
• What has worked as far as getting others on board.
• Successes, challenges, and/or frustrations when trying to create a culture of community.

Our Special Guests
Thank you to our special guests. Connect with them on Twitter!

• Michelle Luhtala ‏@mluhtala
• Pamela Livingston ‏@plivings
• Andrew P. Marcinek ‏@andycinek
• Ryan Lee ‏ ‏@ryan_rlee

Backchannel

Join our backchannel conversation on Facebook at this link or on Twitter using the hashtag #BYODBGSU. See all the backchannel hashtags on our Tagboard at http://tagboard.com/byodbgsu.

The BGSU BYOD Community

Check out members of the BYOD BGSU Community!  

Note: To see people's comments, select full screen on the bottom right and then select "Show Info" on the top right.

Bring Your Own Device #BYOD #ConnectedEducators Learning Community

Interested in discovering what it means when we empower students to BYOD? You are invited to join a vibrant connected educators learning community to do just that and you can even received contact hours from an accredited state University. 

The community includes blog posts, twitter chats, Facebook pages, Google communities, and video conferencing that will take place throughout the year.

Anyone can join, but you can receive up to 18 contact hours from Bowling Green State University by registering at http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/edhd/pdregister.html. When you get there, look for "Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Learning Community" and select the yellow button that says “Register.”  The fee is $50. Note: All contact hours can be accumulated online. There is an optional face-to-face event.

To follow is a timeline of the four topics that will be addressed and the various platforms that will be used, followed by an outline explaining how to accumulate contact hours.

Developing a #BYOT / #BYOD learning network

So, you’re interested in supporting bring your own device (BYOD) where you work. Congratulations! You are not alone.  Innovative educators understand that there is no better way to support your students for the real world than providing settings they encounter in the real world.  One of the best ways to get started and keep going is by developing your professional learning network of others who are also involved in this work.  

Here are some resources to do just that.  

Twitter

• People BYOD K12
  A list of educators who discuss BYOD / BYOT
• Chat
  #BYOTchat
  Online Twitter chat every Thursday from 9:00-10:00 PM (EST)
• Hashtags
  #BYOD #BYOT #BYOTchat #BYODBGSU