Project 6 Personal Learning Network

Before this class I had never heard of a Personal Learning Network, but thanks to Dr. Strange I had the opportunity to create one. I established my PLN through Blogspot.com, Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. MY most used PLN is blogger. Through Blogger I have had a chance to chat with Mr. Needleman, Dorthy and her class from New Zealand, Jabiz Raisdana (Kaia's father), etc. I've even got a chance to view my classmates reactions and comment on them. Had I not taken this class I would have never experienced these exciting opportunities or known the power of blogging. Through Facebook I've left messages on classmates profiles pertaining to school work, posted a question and recieved feedback instantly, I'm even a friend of my art teacher Dr. Baggett. Thank you Dr. Strange for giving me the opportunity to create a PLN. I will continue to develope my PLN after this class.

Things Teachers Should and Shouldn't Do

After viewing these two list by Doug Johnson Seven Stupid Mistakes and 7 Brilliant Things Teachers do with Technology, and a list of New Classroom rules by Education Innovation. I thought the two most important out of the three list were. Ignoring the intrinsic interest of tech use in today's kids and thinking Technology in schools will go away.
I think both of those are two really stupid mistakes to make. If your student's love technology why not incorporate into your classroom to catch their attention and keep them focused. Another thing is technology in general. People please wake up it's not going anywhere any time soon. Actually it's growing faster and faster by the day! You can either get with the program or get left far behind!

Believing, Inventing and Implementing Technological Pedagogies

I think Anthony Capps' did a great job at breaking down what Miller was trying to say. He went above and beyond in this blog Click here to see, and I really enjoyed reading it.

My Presentation

At The Teacher's Desk

I found At The Teacher's Desk to be a interesting, but useful website. On this website teachers experiment in professional learning, collaborate and share ideas.

I will keep this website in mind when I enter the teaching world. Hopefully I can get solutions to my problems by participating in this blog, or maybe I can help someone else. Thanks for sharing this website with us Dr. Strange, I look forward to using it!

Toward A New Future of Whatever- Michael Wesch

I really enjoyed watching this video by Micheal Wesch. I didn't know "whatever" could have so many meanings. I can honestly say I use "whatever" in all three ways: the 60's way, the 90's way, and in the future way. It depends on the situation as to how I use the word whatever. For instance if your talking about something I could care less about, I would probably use the 90"s whatever. If I was working on something as a team and the other person idea sounds better, then I would use the 60's whatever. But as a student ready to start my career, I will do whatever it takes by whatever means necessary to complete school successfully, therefore I am using the the future way of whatever.

Blogging

Blogging was a good experience for all of us, having a blog to post on different subjects really had us go into depth about certain topics and blogging also introduce us to new things like podcasting and videocast. The good thing about blogging is that you have the opportunity to view your classmates blogs and get their opinion especially if both of you are discussing the same topic.

Blogging was new to me. This EDM310 class blog was my first experience with blogging. Other things that could be change is to have the directions more simple, sometimes it was kind of confusing finding the correct location of the topic. Also one post a week would be great!

Over all blogging was fun to me and I am thinking about continuing making post to my blogs after this class. It was a fun experience and I hope you continue this in your teaching. This is something great for future teachers.