This document reflects on the author's experience using Twitter to develop their professional learning network. It discusses signing up for an account, following suggested organizations and people, and eventually feeling comfortable tweeting. The author refers to three accounts, @edutopia, @cybraryman1, and @cmt1, that have influenced their early education technology journey. @edutopia tweets about philosophical issues in education. @cybraryman1 tweets on a variety of topics from motivation to education technology to gifted education. @cmt1 tweets on education technology, research methodology, and emerging topics.

1. Multimedia Reflection

2.  From being introduced to using Twitter as a
tool to develop my Professional Learning
Network in this course ...
 To actually signing up a Twitter account …
 To starting to follow people and having
followers …
 To starting to tweet and retweet …
 To eventually being able to say, hey, now I
know .. and that, I enjoy tweeting too!

3.  Right after signing up, I started following
organizations and people suggested by the
instructional team, including some media
news groups and not-for-profit
organizations.
 I had a few followers …
 But now I know who to follow after reading
tweets that interests me and after researching
a little about the organization/people
concerned. It’s really interesting and I must
say my followers have increased in number
too.

5.  I want to refer to the following
organization/people who have made an
impact on me in my infancy Ed Tech journey
(which will continue even after this course is
done) ie @edutopia, @cybraryman1and
@cmt1
 But that is not to say that the rest of the
organization/people did not significantly
influence this journey … it is definitely a hard
choice to make due to space constraint.
 Whoever it is that is out there, keep it up and
march on!

6.  A website of the George Lucas Educational
Foundation, United States.
 I was drawn very much by the name initially
because of the word ‘utopia’.
 I then discovered that it has so much to offer
and I stuck on with it …
 In its tweets, it raises philosophical issues and
big pictures for education in the 21st Century.
Among them are: the art of staying relevant (for
educator) and reinventing oneself; Problem-
based Learning: inclusive cultural response
versus reactive cultural response.

7.  Retired educator.
 He tweets on a variety of subjects ranging
from motivational stuffs (‘students respond
better if they know you care about them’
tweet) …
 To education technology (I like his internet
catalogue for educators) …
 To gifted education (‘all things gifted’ tweet)
..
 To his various other interest like ‘building
community in the classroom’, the list goes
on.

8.  Faculty Ed Tech instructor.
 I like her various tweets on education
technology & practice, research
methodology issues, open source
education, google class … besides …
 Up and coming issues like augmented
reality, Education 3.0, The Other 21st
Century Skills etc. Lots of food for thought,
and very trending.