November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

Liz Davis

About Liz Davis
Director of Academic Technology, Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA

Liz Davis is the Director of Academic Technology at Belmont Hill School. Over the past 17 years, she has worked as a 6th grade teacher, a textbook writer and editor, and for an educational software company, training teachers and administrators across the country. Liz believes in the power of technology to transform learning, energize communities and inspire innovative thinking. She is particularly interested in ways to incorporate social media into educational settings, teaching students to interact online in productive and responsible ways. Liz presents at conferences across the country and has published articles in national and local journals. She writes regularly in her blog at www.edtechpower.com and Tweets as @lizbdavis.

Main Session Workshops

Twitter – Establishing your Personal Learning Network (presenting with Lisa Thumann)

Have you heard of Twitter? Are you wondering what all the fuss is about? Have you tried it and still do not get it? In this session we will focus on the ways Twitter can be harnessed to build a rich and powerful learning community. We will discuss tips and tricks to leverage the potential of this network. Resources will be provided to help attendees set up their own networks during and/or after the session. Finally, we will capitalize on the face- to-face connections within the workshop to further enrich our online learning communities.

Managing Filter Failure – Getting to the Good Stuff

Clay Shirky says, “It’s not information overload – it’s filter failure.” Do you often feel like we are drowning in a sea of information? Do you have more networks than you know what to do with? Have you figured out a way to filter in the relevant information and filter out the noise? Let us use our collective intelligence to make the most of our information management strategies. In this session, we will work to identify and refine the problem itself, and then we will consider a number of solutions you can use to harness the power of your network’s intelligence and expertise.