1. Week 2 – Multimedia Reflection
Professional Learning
Networks
2. This is a screen capture
of my PLN account on
Twitter
I made it on
January 11, 2013.
This is one day after
activation, but I hope it
will expand!
3. Vicki Davis is an educator who is every accustomed to using
the internet for teaching. She tweets articles pertaining to a
wide-range of subjects – from math to English. She also
tweets about the day in the life as a teacher, which helps
future educators feel more prepared. She is fairly active and
tweets multiple times a day and also runs a blog where she
posts various tools and ideas for in and outside the
4. Steven David Horwich is a writer and an educator whose
works have been recognized with an Emmy. He has skill in
acting, writing, and directing and has done of this while he
home-schooled his children by himself. He tweets contain
many links to resources that parents can utilize at home, but
of course teachers can find good tools there too. If a parent
comes to me and asks what they can do for their child if they
choose to home-school, I would recommend his website and
5. The Find Your Light Foundation was started by Josh
Groban, a singer/songwriter who is well-known for his
rendition of “You Raise Me Up.” He is a man who
advocates education for all students, focusing on the
importance of the arts. I have donated to this organization,
and rather than visiting the website, I can simply review
news about it quickly through Twitter to see where the
money goes and what it does. The account posts updates
pertaining to what they are doing, charity events, and what
6. This is am updated
screen capture
of my PLN account on
Twitter, which has
grown exponentially
since its activation. It will
most definitely
continue to grow as I find new (February 10,
2013)
people to follow.
7. PLN Participation
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As a social media site, Twitter has provided me with various sources
of information, ideas, and discussions which can help my future
teaching career.
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My Twitter account focuses on various education-related accounts in
the hopes of gaining insight and ideas on various teaching practices –
in general and for English Language arts
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I really enjoy looking at Tweets under #education #englishlanguage
(from what I've seen, it's a lot of students and others complaining
about the language and class, which is interesting to me as a future
teacher [it allows me to see what I might need to avoid later on]), and
#specialeducation
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With these hashtags, I have many interesting articles and ideas which
I share by retweeting them. I'm not very into tweeting myself, but by
sharing information, I can still be an active member of the community
