Personal Learning Network

There are many sites in where we can learn and gain knowledge about education and technology. I subscribed to The New York Times-Education where I learn about education issues that are happening around our nation. I am able to see local and nationwide news about education issues and gives me tips by providing critical thinking articles. Digital Inspiration is a blog that I found to be really helpful to me because I was able to read some articles that showed me what more I can do with my Google account and drive. There are so many things that I learned of how to use my drive much more useful and inspires me to use is in good ways and take the benefits from it. Yahoo tech is a place where I can find anything fun to explore and find fun and interesting facts about the technology world. Some of the information given is helpful and other is fun to find out what is going on with technology and how it is evolving.

Twitter is a way for the news to come to you and not us looking for it. I follow the NEA Today which I love because I am able to learn so much from them. Sometimes it is very valid information and other tweets are just to make us laugh about the wonders of being a teacher. We see how teachers are portrayed and how it can be seen a different way. It keeps updated on information that we need to know especially when they send their magazines to your door. It gives you and insight of what teachers are doing to better the public school system. Education.com tweets are there to give us some inspiration and ideas to make learning fun. Some of the tweets just put smiles on my face because it lightens me up of all the ideas we was future and current teachers can use in our classrooms. PBS Teachers tweets a view to some free digital resources. It also giving us information on how to be able to transform learning into something great. One example is music and it was showing us that music can be online know since technology is being a big part of student’s lives now.

Diigo is a play of networking and learning tool because we are able to find credible site that our classmates or peers look for. For right now I only follow my classmates in my education class and I am able to see what else they are finding about technology. The more people I follow the more I am able to see what is going on in the technology world. As of right now I am not an active member looking for people to follow, but I will in the near future. It is interesting to see what my classmates find in the world of technology.

I joined both Educators PLN and Classroom 2.0 and I found them to be very helpful. I was able to read some comments and some articles that teachers have put up and learn from them. Some teachers load up other articles they find so everyone can see and get help. It is a place where teachers help teachers out without knowing it. I found some of the posts to help a lot because it was not just about technology, but about any subject or helpful tip to teachers.

My PLN experience was overwhelming because there are so many good sites out there and networks we can join, but I say too many accounts. There was a lot of reading to do which took time, but in the end I found it worth it because I was able to learn so many things. I had accounts everywhere and I was not just able to keep track of what I read and where I read it. I enjoyed and found interesting facts about technology and how helpful it can be and I understood it, but sometimes I found it to be overwhelming of so much information given. Overall I enjoyed learning and see what other teachers and sites had to say about education.I will certainly use a lot of the sites and blogs as a future teachers. I will try my best to be update on everything I can and I am sure I can use some new ideas and inspiration from other teachers in my classroom.