We are excited to announce Susan M. Bearden as the moderator for the Digital Citizenship Summit on October 3, 2015.
Susan is a passionate advocate for teaching digital citizenship and is dedicated to facilitating best practices in education technology to support teaching and learning. A former teacher, she currently serves as the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, FL.
A popular speaker, she has presented about social media and digital citizenship at a number of national conferences, including ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education; FETC, Florida Education Technology Conference; CoSN, Consortium for School Networking; Miami Device; and numerous regional and state conferences. Awards include the 2014 Bammy Award for School Technologist of the Year and the 2015 “Making IT Happen” Award from the Florida Society for Technology in Education.
Bearden co-founded and moderates the #edtechchat and #digcit (Digital Citizenship) Twitter chats and participates regularly in the weekly EdTechChat Radio podcast for the BAM Radio Network. Inspired by her experiences with Twitter, she developed Tweechme, a mobile app specifically designed to teach educators how to build Personal Learning Networks on Twitter. She is writing a book about Digital Citizenship for Corwin press as part of their Connected Educator series, scheduled for release early next year.
Connect with her on Twitter @s_bearden and @Tweechmeapp or at www.susanmbearden.com.
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