Review on PLN

A PLN is an acronym that standing for Personal Learning Network. This is a place were a teacher can go and exchange and share information about teaching. One can go on a online website that is a PLN and look or talk to fellow educators and topics they want to know about. It is very helpful when you want to improve your teaching skills because you can easily look up the new teaching methods or just browse the posting of those who you choose to follow through the PLN.

I used the popular PLN called twitter. This was a great because it was my first time using twitter and I found it to be a very useful PLN. The reason I enjoyed it because I found some of the websites that I look at for educational information such as edweek.org to keep me inform on topics and news in education. The way I came to find that they had a twitter was that I search #edchat. and by doing this they had tweeted the same hashtag so they were brought up in the search and I began to follow them. I can see them post on topics of education and so I didn't have to go to there website to see what was knew. I had them and three other educational twitters that I was following and they keep me informed on the knew methods of teaching. The best part was that if I saw something interesting then I would just hit the link they had on there twitter and it would send me to their website to find out more. Essential the information came to me and I just picked and choose what I want to learn. for example I saw a tweet on budgecuts and how they would affect teachers in california. So I just clicked on the link and it took me there.

But I feel the best thing is that if you have question then you can communicate to them on things you want to know. By directing the question to them and tagging them in it. I never really got a response on a question I asked about one of the tweets I saw but I saw that some of the tweeters I was following did comment and talk to or tweeters users.

The ning group I join was the educators PLN I never new there was websites like this that people essentially build there own soical newwork where they share information on the subject of the ning. I have to say that it does help teachers because one of these groups can show you things about teaching that you would never have known if you did not talk to people or share your thoughts and these website help educators do that. I saw a video on introverts on how they are looked down on by in schools and are told to be extroverts. But then how they are lazy, boring, have social probelms. But that is just a basis. The video suggest that they are thinkers and like to analyze what they take in so that they are not impulsive.

I had a positive experience with PLN because I saw have teachers can gain different ideas and teaching methods forntheir students. The video even showed me how people take in information that will help me to make my lectures more universal for the student to understand and grasp.