My Personal Learning Network
Question 1.
My PLN prior to this course was very limited. I had no idea nor understood RSS feeds, did not know about podcast and did not have a twitter account. I had discovered blogging and found it to be an interesting medium for numerous topics, but never used it for educational purposes. We use email and Google Docs a lot in our school and in our district. But honestly, we are a long way of making uses of all the technologies that are available.The more I have tried these Web 2.0 tools, the more possibilities I find for there use. As a teacher, there are several ways I plan to use blogging and podcast in the classroom. The students would love to be a part of the projects/instruction using these tools.
I think our teachers are not using these tools because they need more professional development and many of our students do not have access to the internet. However, I think that year by year, the number of students without technology access is growing smaller. I have received some feedback from several of our teachers who would like to use blogging to put out information to their students and parents. Our administrators have discussed the use of twitter to put out short messages pertaining to information about school closings, weather, and important reminders. We'll see how it goes, at least it is a start.
I think it is important that as teachers and administrators, we move forward and begin to use these tools. We may only have them in a limited role today, by they are sure to be the way we communicate and teach in the future.
Question 1.
My PLN prior to this course was very limited. I had no idea nor understood RSS feeds, did not know about podcast and did not have a twitter account. I had discovered blogging and found it to be an interesting medium for numerous topics, but never used it for educational purposes. We use email and Google Docs a lot in our school and in our district. But honestly, we are a long way of making uses of all the technologies that are available.The more I have tried these Web 2.0 tools, the more possibilities I find for there use. As a teacher, there are several ways I plan to use blogging and podcast in the classroom. The students would love to be a part of the projects/instruction using these tools.
I think our teachers are not using these tools because they need more professional development and many of our students do not have access to the internet. However, I think that year by year, the number of students without technology access is growing smaller. I have received some feedback from several of our teachers who would like to use blogging to put out information to their students and parents. Our administrators have discussed the use of twitter to put out short messages pertaining to information about school closings, weather, and important reminders. We'll see how it goes, at least it is a start.
I think it is important that as teachers and administrators, we move forward and begin to use these tools. We may only have them in a limited role today, by they are sure to be the way we communicate and teach in the future.
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