"Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator - by using social media to connect with peers across the country and even across the globe - will greatly enhance your own learning and your success in a school or classroom. You'll find out how to create a personal and professional learning network to share resources and ideas, gain support, and make an impact on others. By customizing your professional development in this way, you'll be able to learn what you want, how you want, when you want. Best of all, you'll become energized and inspired by all the great ideas out there and how you can contribute, benefiting both you and your students."--back cover.

Invest in a personal and professional learning network (P²LN) -- Learn what they want, when they want, how they want -- Embrace the three Cs: communication, collaboration, and community -- Give and take...and give some more -- Strive to be tomorrow...today -- Know that it is still about the 3 Rs: relationships, relationships, relationships -- Model the way -- Know when to unplug -- Connecting the dots. People first ; Ideas next ; Ending where we started.