Within Component 4E, Growing a Developing Professionally, one artifact that was mentioned was a Personal Learning Network, known in short as a "PLN". A Personal Learning Network encourages educators to become life long learners and to collaborate with strong online presences. A Personal Learning Network is crucial to an educator because it allows them to fulfill the three elements of Component 4E. Through "Ed-Chats" the teachers Enhance their familiarity of content knowledge and pedagogical skill, they publically show receptivity to feedback from colleagues, and by aiding other educators with ideas and perspective they are providing a service to the profession.
Personally, I believe that being taught how to maintain and utilize various platforms of a Personal Learning Network has helped me in growing more confident in myself and my own ideas immensely. By participating in Ed-Chats, examples can be seen in the gallery below, I feel that I can confidently interject my opinions and feel that I can aid others without a guilty feeling of interrupting. I also feel more confident in asking for assistance or for opinions from other educators for various ideas, such as how to make a project learning based classroom or if a Flipped Classroom would be more efficient. Also, from being taught how to professionally maintain my accounts I feel more competent on being able to meet the ISTE NETS standards of teaching my future students Online Citizenship.
In order to expand my PLN over the summer and the years to come I would like to participate in one Ed-Chat a week and pin one picture a day on Pinterest and one article a week. In order to achieve this goal I will install the Pinterest application on my phone, and utilize the great program Tweetdeck for the Ed-Chats!
In the mean time please visit my professional Twitter and my professional Pinterest account.
*ALL answers are based off of: Danielson, C. (2007). Enhancing professional practice a framework for teaching (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Personally, I believe that being taught how to maintain and utilize various platforms of a Personal Learning Network has helped me in growing more confident in myself and my own ideas immensely. By participating in Ed-Chats, examples can be seen in the gallery below, I feel that I can confidently interject my opinions and feel that I can aid others without a guilty feeling of interrupting. I also feel more confident in asking for assistance or for opinions from other educators for various ideas, such as how to make a project learning based classroom or if a Flipped Classroom would be more efficient. Also, from being taught how to professionally maintain my accounts I feel more competent on being able to meet the ISTE NETS standards of teaching my future students Online Citizenship.
In order to expand my PLN over the summer and the years to come I would like to participate in one Ed-Chat a week and pin one picture a day on Pinterest and one article a week. In order to achieve this goal I will install the Pinterest application on my phone, and utilize the great program Tweetdeck for the Ed-Chats!
In the mean time please visit my professional Twitter and my professional Pinterest account.
*ALL answers are based off of: Danielson, C. (2007). Enhancing professional practice a framework for teaching (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.