Week 1c: PLN Requirements

Links:
NCTE
PBS
POWELLS
Re-imagining Education
Tech Review
Scholastic
Classmate's Blog

I chose the NCTE site because it's a respected and useful site within my department, which encourages subscriptions in the associated magazine. The PBS site is also geared toward education, and is public enough to give national news feeds. Powells is a major book store, especially where I'm from, so it keeps me up to date on new releases and info. Slideshare offered links to articles on education from a practical/pedagogical standpoint. Tech Review gave information on the use of technology in classrooms, specifically in English. Scholastic is the education and literature company that's useful for teaching ideas and for classroom equipment. And finally, the classmate's blog was the only one on the class website. But I like latin as it applies to English, so I kinda like it.

Week 1b: Photo and Link

Let's try adding a few things now.

First a picture

Hey, there it is. That's cool.

My brother drew this. I wanted to put up a picture by Natalie Dee but I was worried about privacy/copyright issues. However, you can visit her website HERE

Another favorite of mine is XKCD

Just be warned that both sites have posts that would not make BYU very happy.

I don't currently have a video to post, but I will when I do.

Week 1a: Getting Started

I've never had much concern for blogs, but I'm actually a little relieved to be forced to make one so I can get out of my bubble and try some new things. So far so good. I feel pretty good with technology as far as making things efficient and professional, but these newfangled things like blogs and Facebook just don't strike my radar with the same weight. They're flashy and social and you put in a lot of effort for fun . . . but no significant end product.

Only this last few semesters have I seen teachers really using blogs and wiki's to compile great information that really helps the class and the learning environment and I'm very interested in finding what I can do with technology to make it my own while increasing learning.

Spring term moves VERY quickly and even though I only have a few classes it takes a real effort to keep up with everything. In the next little bit I hope to post a few pictures or videos. They're nor really to share (I'm not big on sharing), but for the experience.