Teacher Centre Managers’

Course

10 – 15 August 2014

Day 5

Day 5: Gearing up for Action

By the end of this session you

will be able to:

• State the core messages that your Teacher Centre

wishes to communicate

• Market your Teacher Centre following a Marketing Plan

• Use Twitter as a form of professional development and

a way of communicating about your Teacher Centre

• List action items/ resolutions to implement at your

Teacher Centre

Importance of Twitter

People say, “I couldn’t do my work nowadays

without Twitter” but usually someone points out

that you can’t learn to become a doctor using

Twitter.

Of course this is true – but it’s actually missing

the point. It’s not about using Twitter to learn

how to become a doctor, but about using

Twitter to become a better doctor – or certainly

a better-informed doctor, and keep up to date

with what’s new in the medical profession.

Top Tools for learning

A learning tool is defined as any software or online tool or service that you use either for your own personal or professional learning, for teaching or training, or for creating e-learning

Annual survey of Top 100 tools

• Survey has been conducted world

wide

• For the past 7 years

• The Web is 25 years old – this survey

shows how we have changed the way

we learn

Activity 1: Becoming a twitterbug

• Participants to use their phones or tablets

• Go to Twitter.com

• Either sign up or sign in and get started

• Video “Getting Started with Twitter”

• Follow:

– @DBE_SA

– @schoolnetsa

– @Vodacom

Activity 2: Where to, from here?

• Reflect on changes you wish to see

• Write down your resolutions for change in

your files

• Share resolutions with your table

• File resolutions on a time line

Website: www.education.gov.za

Call Centre: 0800 202 933 | callcentre@dbe.gov.za

Twitter: @DBE_SA | Facebook: DBE SA

Congratulations!

You have completed

the Centre Managers’ course!