Journal #4 (NETs 2-5)

Join the flock is a great article to learn more about twitter and how it can be used in education.  In class I am currently learning all this so I was able to connect to it and visualize what the author was talking about.   It was great to learn about Professional Learning Network or PLN.  According to this article, a PLN is a community of individuals around the world who are learning together”.  I think that PLN are great because learning and getting different ideas and viewpoints is important.  It can also be really helpful for educators to have that support system.  In the article it is also mentioned that this helps you “see yourself as a teacher and students as learners”.  Also, on "Enhance your Twitter experience" by Shannon McClintock Miller, I learned more about PLN using twitter.  This article is really helpful and relevant to me because in class we are using twitter to create our PLN.  I could relate to the article because everything the author mentioned, I have been doing.  She states that she has a lot of friends all over the world where she can get resources and share ideas.  I also thought it was interesting that she has the different types of terminology Twitter uses and define each one.  Lastly, I also learned the “twitter engagement formula” as she defines it which McClintock describes as “70% of twitter time should be spent sharing other voices, opinions, and tools; 20% of tweets should be directly responding, connecting, collaborating and co-creating with twitter colleagues; and 10% is chit-chatting trivial details about your life as a human being” (McClintock, 2010).

Q1: How can a PLN help an educator?

A1: By having a support system in which you can rely to ask questions and state opinions.  PLN is community group in which an educator gets ideas and gives back as well to enhance teaching skills. 

Q2: If you get tweets from other parts of the world, are you able to translate it?

A2: By using organizer, you are able to translate a tweet from a foreing language.  

Ferguson, H. (2012). Join the flock. Learning & Leading with Technology,  Retrieved

from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-leading/issues/june-july-2010/join-the-flock!

Miller, S. (2010, June). Enhance Your Twitter Experience. In Iste.

Retrieved April 24, 2013, from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-leading/digitaledition/digital-edition-march-april-2013