The Amazing Internet

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Developing your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

There is a lot of discussion today about developing a personal learning network. Through many social network sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Nings, wikis, blogs, and more, students and teachers are able to connect with other in their field and share resources. This summer, one of the ways I have expanded my social network has been using Twitter, wikis and Ning. I am a member of a wiki called Twitter for teachers where I found many contacts of educators to follow and gain valuable resources for the classroom. One of the other wikis in which I belong is called Wikis in Education. Here is a picture depicting someone's PLN.

You're only as good as your community

Welcome new students in CAPP130

One of the first sites we visited this semester was wordle.net. Students created wordles including their names and other terms to describe themselves. This wordle was created from the course syllabus.

Are social networks making students more narcissistic?

In a recent

article

in USA today, the author believes that social networks are adding to the narcissistic attitudes in college students.
Take the

narcissistic personality test

to see for yourself.

reBlog from Kristin Hokanson: The Connected Classroom

I found this fascinating quote today:

I have to be honest, the more summer professional development I do, and the more in-service workshops I do, the more I worry about this. I spend a day or two, sometimes a week “teaching folks to swim.” I give them the skills and we go SLOW. We work on voice threads, and wikis…easy entry points. I model (swim along with them) give them support (sometimes putting on water-wings) but at the end of our time together I feel like I am still throwing “non-swimmers” into the deep end. My greatest fear, is that without a guide swimming beside them, they may find themselves close to drowning and perhaps no longer want to go to the pool :(Candace Hackett Shively explained this beautifully in her post The Swimmer’s ObligationKristin Hokanson, The Connected Classroom, Jul 2009

You should read the whole article.

Blog Cartoon--Blackmail

Inbox Zero

As I am working on professional development during the summer, one of the most time consuming tasks can be email. I have viewed several presentations on the concept of Inbox Zero--good tool for joining the world of business.

Inbox Zero: Action-Based Email

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