Tom Whitby

Tom Whitby

Author

Thomas D. Whitby is the co-author of The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning. He is @tomwhitby on Twitter with 58,000 followers. Tom retired from Public Education after serving 34 years as a secondary English teacher, and spent an additional six years as an adjunct Professor at St Joseph’s College in New York. He is a Co-Creator of #Edchat, an award winning education discussion group on Twitter. He is an education Blogger, My Island View: Educational, Disconnected Utterances, as well as a Blogger for EDUTOPIA. He is the recipient of the ISTE “Making IT Happen Award”. The Qatar foundation has invited him for the past three years to attend the WISE Conference, an International Education Conference in Doha Qatar. He hosts the weekly Edchat Radio Show on the BAM Radio Network. He created the Educator’s PLN, a global Ning site, where approximately 17,000+ educators share and collaborate daily. He is the founder of seven educational groups on LinkedIn, the largest being 16,000+ members, the Technology-Using Professors Group. He participated on The U.S. Department of Education’s planning committee for Connected Educator Month since in 2012. Whitby has served as a contributing Editor while developing SmartBlog on Education by SmartBrief, and he has written about Social Media in Education for several national education journals including Learning and Leading the Journal for the International Society for Technology in Education and T.H.E. Journal. He has presented at local, statewide and National and International Education Conferences, including: ASCD, ISTE, FETC, TCEA, NYSCATE, MACUL, ICE, SIIA, and several 140 Character Conferences on Social Media in Los Angeles, and New York City.