I have found Facebook groups to be the best source of quick real life information to solve problems. These are other people in the same position dealing with the same programs and the same challenges. It is amazing how quickly you can get an answer or several different answers with a quick post to a great group of educators.

Some groups that I have found especially helpful are:

• Educational Technology Leadership - Jan 2020 Cohort - This is a private group created for my masters program. We work together to understand assignments and help each other when technology and life interfere with class.

• AP Calc TEACHERS - AB/BC - Private Group with thousands of AP Calculus teacher. The group admin are questions leaders for gradings each year and are experts at the test. There have been tons of great free resources and full curriculums. I also "met" a teacher who I worked with to create a curriculum from scratch. We then shared with the group.

• Teaching with Schoology - Technically a private group but with 80K+ members it is a wealth of resources and solutions to common problems with Schoology. As of 2020 I am now answering more questions than asking as my district had embraced Schoology before the pandemic.

• Seesaw Teachers - As I took over as District Instructional Coach this group saved me as I rushed to learn the platform the elementary teachers were going to need help with.

I use Twitter to stay up to date with new features and new "hacks"; not as much interactive as Facebook and Professional Organization communities.

Accounts I follow provide me with great information. While I occasionally re-tweet I have not yet embraced Twitter as a way to participate in the conversation.

While not as robust and active as Facebook and Twitter the Schoology platform does allow for connecting to other groups. I have several within my school that I am the main contributor. Region 12 has created a group for Ed Techs in the region to help each other troubleshoot and NEW2SYG group created by Schoology has a lot of educators working to learn the platform. There is not a good way to share these groups but they are valuable enough to mention here.