Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Journal #7: My personal Learning Network (Nets-T-V-V)


What is your PLN and how will it help you as a classroom teacher?
   
To begin a PLN is basically an entire collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information, usually online. MY Personal Learning Network (PLN) has been created for my classroom designed to encourage learning through the use of technology and using it to incorporate it into my classroom. Using technology for the subject matter of my English class I want to engage students to discuss their work online because it will help students learn in a variety of ways. My PLN consists of Twitter where I can have students post up comments where all classmates can read what they have to say. Then there is Diigo a website that helps students bookmark any websites that helps them out. Finally there's the Educators PLN, which help me as a teacher learn how to improve my methods of teaching/running my classroom. My PLN is resourceful to me and my students because learning is being done outside the classroom. I am engaging students to be technology savvy and be able to have fun in the process. My PLN is ongoing and changing as technology continues to advance, I will stay up to date in order to be the best teacher that I can be.
Discuss your use of Twitter. Who is in your Network? Reflect on your participation in an educational chat on Twitter.
   
My use of Twitter has been to inform those following of what I have been up to. I see Twitter as a way of being informed from a variety of other teachers. Other teachers include future teachers from my Education 422 class that I am following and others that are following me. I am also following people that I got from my Education 422 professor. My network consists of people all in the education field as well as people from the Los Angeles channel five news, and the reason I chose this because it can relate interest to my students. I have used my Twitter account for my personal use and for my teaching to engage myself with others in conversations dealing with education. This is done through chats done on Twitter.   
    I participated in a one hour chat with teachers and students on Wednesday July 25, 2012 at 5pm through Twitter and one that I found on #ntchat. The topic was on the scheduling of a school year. What I like about this was that I learned how to ask questions and I got answers back to me which was awesome. I asked some questions about collaborating with other educators, and what CSSS stood for. I learned from Professor Heil how to communicate with others by typing in their name following a # sign which would message them instantly. The discussion went pretty fast and I saw many new teachers on there as well as some of my peers. For a one-hour chat it went better than expected and there was a great involvement I thought. Twitter does expand the knowledge on students and can be fun and exciting when everyone is participating and engaged.
Discuss your use of Diigo as a networking tool. Describe what you tagged on your PLN and why?
   
My use of Diigo as a networking tool is to primarily promote my ideas to other educators. This is done by creating an account where other educators or students can refer to if they ever need assistance with lesson plans or help with assignments. I can do the same in taking ideas that have been used by others in the education field. This can be with creative writing, English, or just issues within the classroom. I can find what I am looking for by searching what I need specifically.
    What I tagged on my PLN is basically websites that have been recommended to me. For me it is very helpful for the day when I do get in the teaching profession I am able to use Diigo as a way of getting all my references and be able to look back and see what I can incorporate into my classroom. I only got the basics, but it helps me see how technology helps me further me in improving my classroom and me as an educator.
Discuss which digital discussion forum you joined and describe what it is, add the badge to your blog, and reflect on the blog post, video, or article you explored.
 

URL: http://edupln.com/forum/topics/school-newsletters
 

    I Joined a discussion based on the newsletter where there is a search for a whole new different way of creating a newsletter. I found the discussion interesting because the newsletter is something that interested me in Education 422. This is a type of discussion that is based online through the educators PLN website. It is basically starting with a question and seeing on who responds answers you to help you improve the classroom or issues within it. When I looked over the discussion the responses made the persons job of creating a newsletter much easier because they created a new way of designing a newsletter through a website rather than publisher. I learned that through this website I can start a question that deals with problems and see what other educators advise me and it helps me become a better educator.

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