Journal #2 NETS-T (3)

Journal #2

Join the Flock by Hadley Ferguson
Enhance Your Twitter Experience by Shannon McClintock Miller

APA Citation:
Ferguson, H. (2010, June/July). Join the flock. Learning and Leading With Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607/#pg16

McClintock, S. (2010, June/July). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading With Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607/#pg16

Summary/ Reflection:

“Enhance your Twitter Experience” and “Join the Flock” are two great articles to expand our knowledge about Twitter, a website that without doubt it has become a great technology tool for students and teachers. “Enhance your Twitter Experience” talked more about the twitter twerminology and the resources people can use, such as to add a twitter organizer to make technology life easier. In “Join the Flock,” it explained in detail how although it takes time and a little of effort, a person can start building his/her virtual community.
By reading these two articles about twitter, it fascinated me how this technology tool has become a new way where students and teachers can learn without steeping out of their house. Therefore, I learned that by using twitter, a virtual meeting place, I could use a professional learning network (PLN) to learn almost about everything. I think it is really cool to be able to built my community, and communicate and collaborate with other people in order to learn more about education.

Twitter can improve student learning and instruction.

Question #1:
Once you set up an account, why is it important to expose yourself?
Everyone should be aware that: when an individual is setting up his/her account, he/she has to make sure to include in his/her bio what he/she is interested in. This is really important as people who are deciding whether to follow him/her will look at that to get a sense of what he/she care about.

Question #2:
What is a PLN? In which ways it can help you as a teacher?
The PLN stands for personal learning network, and this is a community of individuals from around the world who are learning together. Therefore, this PLN can help you as a teacher to learn from others. For example, you can get ideas, resources, feedback, and many other things, which benefit you as a teacher to serve your students. In addition, a PLN can help you to extend your learning base and stay engaged in education. Overall, a PLN helps teachers to grow professionally.