2.  I was completely new to Twitter before
starting Module 2: “Starting a Personal Learning
Network” or PLN.
 You can find me on Twitter
@JanelleWagner3
 I tried to avoid #extraneousoverload of
information by following just education related
organizations and people that I had heard of
before, or saw that they had tweeted a few
things I found useful.

3. I started following Huffington Post Education because I
tend to find their articles have creative ideas and are
easy to read in under 5 minutes. Some of the tweets
are from the news, some are blog style, and some just
make me laugh, but all of them are focused on issues
surrounding education.

4.  Discovery Education was a decent organization to
follow, sometimes posting interesting articles on new
technologies like 3D printers or environmental discoveries.
However, I found the majority of their tweets to be
disappointing, self promoting and not very informative or
“discovery based”, which is why I followed them to start. I
am still hoping that @DiscoveryEd will begin posting more
discoveries and things that pique my curiosity, especially
in the realms of science and technology.

5.  TeachHUB was also a pretty good choice to
follow on Twitter, since they frequently have tweets
that are clear and to the point, and link to useful
articles on engaging students, developing the way
that they learn and discover by facilitating inquiry
based learning, tech tools, classroom behaviour
and management, and general tips for new or pre-
service teachers.

6. Since I was completely new to the world of Twitter, I began
with no followers, no Tweets, and following nobody. Now I
have tweeted 23 new posts, some using retweeted content
and some original, and follow 24 different people and
organizations, discovered gradually using Twitter through
the semester.

7.  I tried to interact with my PLN originally just by
retweeting interesting articles and ideas from the
individuals I follow, not engaging much or contributing
to the PLN initially because I did not feel confident
about my use of hashtags or how to participate in
group discussions, or even find out about them.
 Eventually, I found my favorite way to contribute to
Twitter was to find articles and videos from other sites,
like Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, and some blogs,
and to make original posts to Twitter of things I found
relevant and interesting. I still often forgot that
Hashtags would help to get the tweet more out there,
but when I remembered to I used them.

9.  I am still hesitant to comment on Tweets or to seek
out discussions on Twitter, because that just does not
seem to be as much the focus of the site, and I feel like
I have not found any examples of how “conversations”
on Twitter should work.
 To me, I found that treating the site as a sometimes
slightly more intellectual version of Pinterest was the
best strategy for my personal professional
development. It is a good site for finding things that
interest you, through people that interest you or that
you often find to be wise. Like Pinterest, I mostly
interacted with my network by retweeting, or finding
content from other places online that I found to be
valuable. I thought that this made me a more valuable
contributor to the site than simply commenting on
things I liked and not sharing them.