{"id":2719,"date":"2014-12-24T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T07:52:55","slug":"is-twitter-the-best-option-for-online-professional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/is-twitter-the-best-option-for-online-professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/audreywatters\">@audreywatters <\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite all the pushes to &#8220;bring Twitter to the classroom\u201d and calls to have Twitter &#8220;replace traditional professional development,\u201d I\u2019m less and less convinced that\u2019s a good idea \u2014 or at least, I&#8217;m more and more convinced that we should not rely solely on Twitter as the site for online PD or for online educator community. Both can and do exist online \u2014 PD and community \u2014 but I\u2019d wager the best place to find both remain on educators&#8217; blogs. I wonder if, in fact, &#8220;the future of professional development&#8221; might be a &#8220;return to blogging.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackeducation.com\/2014\/12\/17\/twitter-professional-development\/\">Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?<\/a>  from the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackeducation.com\/\">Hack Education<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>That would be a nice development in 2015. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?s=twitter\">blogged a lot about twitter<\/a> and while it continues to be a good tool, I&#8217;d go along with the questioning of <em>best<\/em>. I suspect our professional standards are looking for a bit more depth too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@audreywatters : Despite all the pushes to &#8220;bring Twitter to the classroom\u201d and calls to have Twitter &#8220;replace traditional professional development,\u201d I\u2019m less and less convinced that\u2019s a good idea \u2014 or at least, I&#8217;m more and more convinced that we should not rely solely on Twitter as the site for online PD or for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[10,61,26],"post_format":[413],"class_list":{"0":"post-2719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","6":"category-enviable-stuff","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-cpd","9":"tag-twitter","10":"post_format-post-format-quote","11":"kind-","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-HR","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}