What is your Personal Learning Network? How will it help you as a classroom teacher?
My Personal Learning Network (PLN) consists of a number of people. I picked people that were specialists in technology and special education. I also included people who were language teachers and other school administrators. My PLN will help me in the future because I chose people from a variety of different places, this way I can always have a resource to go to if I have a problem I need to solve.
Discuss your use of Twitter. Who is in your network? Why? Reflect on your participation in an educational chat.
My Personal Learning Network (PLN) consists of a number of people. I picked people that were specialists in technology and special education. I also included people who were language teachers and other school administrators. My PLN will help me in the future because I chose people from a variety of different places, this way I can always have a resource to go to if I have a problem I need to solve.
Discuss your use of Twitter. Who is in your network? Why? Reflect on your participation in an educational chat.
I had never used Twitter before this class. Although, I found it very easy to move around the site, participating in chats, and adding people to my network. The people I added to my network were people who can expand the resources I have. They were people in the professional school setting and had experience working in schools and with students. I also included some of my classmates to continue our working and collaborative relationship.
On March 14, 2011, I participated in an educational chat (#langchat) that was held on Twitter. LangChat increases the opportunities for language teachers to collaborate with one another. The topic of the discussion was "how can standards-based grading (SBG) be made valid?". The overall consensus was that traditional A-F grading was useless because it doesn't show what the students know. SBG allows for teachers to focus on areas where students need improvement. I thought SBG was a better rubric of grading because it shows the strengths and weaknesses of students' knowledge, not just if they can or can't follow directions or write a paper.
Discuss your use of Diigo as a networking tool. Describe what you tagged as 'PLN' and why.
I used Diigo as a place to find resources that felt would help me when I become an educator. I followed teachers and resource specialists. The websites I tagged as 'PLN' were: A Teacher's Guide to Twitter, 100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers, and Yahoo! for Teachers. I chose the teacher and resource specialist websites and profiles because they would provide information on a variety of topics. I picked the technology websites because its important to stay current with technology.
Discuss which digital discussion forum you joined and why. Reflect on a blog post you read. What did you learn? Will this be useful in your future classroom?
I joined Classroom 2.0. I read a blog post asking how can a teacher share the class' experience while reading Around the World in 80 Days with people outside the classroom. A suggestion someone made was to use Blogger or Google Chat to interact with students in other places. They also suggested making YouTube videos about the different places they were reading. This posting was very helpful in how to incorporate technology into a classroom curriculum. When I was in high school, I had a teacher do something similar. We were each assigned a pen pal and wrote to them a few times a week. Incorporating technology with an language arts assignment will allow for students to be more creative and understand the importance of the book rather than just reading about the places.
Discuss which digital discussion forum you joined and why. Reflect on a blog post you read. What did you learn? Will this be useful in your future classroom?
I joined Classroom 2.0. I read a blog post asking how can a teacher share the class' experience while reading Around the World in 80 Days with people outside the classroom. A suggestion someone made was to use Blogger or Google Chat to interact with students in other places. They also suggested making YouTube videos about the different places they were reading. This posting was very helpful in how to incorporate technology into a classroom curriculum. When I was in high school, I had a teacher do something similar. We were each assigned a pen pal and wrote to them a few times a week. Incorporating technology with an language arts assignment will allow for students to be more creative and understand the importance of the book rather than just reading about the places.
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