My personal learning network (PLN) is mostly comprised of teachers, parents, “power players” and peers who are connected to the special education and “at risk” student world in one-way or another. I choose to follow, tag, and chat with people who are involved and interested in these two areas, because I am hoping to teach special education at the elementary school level in a low-income community. For example I chose to follow Bill and Melinda Gates because they value education. I am also following KIPP, Teach forAmerica, Citizen Teachers, and Edblogs because they have a wealth of information on working with at-risk in low income communities. Lastly, I chose to follow Anne Truger, a mother of a special needs child as well as educator. The majority of my PLN was discovered in Twitter chats and Diigo tags centered on the topic of special education and low-income students. In the short couple of weeks that I have been developing my PNL have been exposed to an abundance of great website, articles, resources and materials that I plan on using throughout the credentialing program at California State University San Macros and in my classroom as a future educator.
On Tuesday March 22nd at 5:30pm I participated in a #spedchat discussion. Due to March Madness there was no official topic for the night. One member, who is a mother of a special needs students, posted a link to the Edceptional Learning For All website (I found this link to be extremely informative and interesting. I later tagged this website using Diigo has part of my PNL). She had us listen to a podcast about the use of IPads in the classroom. The discussion took off from there as I watched in amazement.
Developing my PLN using Diigo as a networking tool proved to be harder than I thought. However, once I was able to wrap my head around the idea of using Diigo as a networking tool it was a breeze. I tagged KIPP and Teach For America with “PLN” because these website provide information about working with students in low-income areas, as well as future employment. I also tagged Edceptional Learning For All “PLN” due to the many interesting articled, podcast and blogs related to the use of technology in special education. In terms of networking myself, I am constantly tagging site a\ I find online that I feel are not only beneficial to me, but the people who I have tagged and share the same interests with.
Of the two digital discussion forums that were presented in class I joined the Educators PLN forum. To be honest I was more visually drawn to this forum over the other. Because of this I took more time to explore the Educators PLN forum and found great and relevant information. Oddly enough, one of the blog posts listed under “Top Content” was about the pros and cons of Diigo. Since I do not have any experience with delicious it was hard to understand what they were talking about. However, I did find some useful information about the many uses of Diigo in the many replies to this particular post. I even was a post that mentioned EDU 422.
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In order to do so I have created a Personal Learning Network (PLN), a collection of people with whom you can engage and exchange information using digitals tools and resources such as Twitter and Diigo.With Twitter and Diggo I search for users and sites that are interested in similar topics as myself and add them to my PLN. My searches include terms like special education, international education, at-risk students, technology etc. Continually, I able model lifelong learning in order to expand my knowledge when I participating in local and global community discussion with the uses of these digital tools and resources. Expanding my network will allow me to explore the newest and best creative application of technology to improve my future students learning.
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In order to do so I have created a Personal Learning Network (PLN), a collection of people with whom you can engage and exchange information using digitals tools and resources such as Twitter and Diigo.With Twitter and Diggo I search for users and sites that are interested in similar topics as myself and add them to my PLN. My searches include terms like special education, international education, at-risk students, technology etc. Continually, I able model lifelong learning in order to expand my knowledge when I participating in local and global community discussion with the uses of these digital tools and resources. Expanding my network will allow me to explore the newest and best creative application of technology to improve my future students learning.
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