Journal 2

Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/February-2012.aspx
 
"Join the Flock!" explains the importance of being part of the virtual community not only in our personal lives, but as professionals and teachers.  The virtual community can create a network of people that you would most likely never encounter in the real world, but can be extremely useful to your life.  A PLN, or Personal Learning Network, allows you to learn from other teachers as well as give back to the teaching community by sharing your skills.

How can I incorporate a PLN into my prefessional life?

The author suggest keeping PLN as well as a separate social network.  This will alow me to keep my professional and personal life separate.  If I can take a few minutes out of the day to be engaging in my PLN, then I can focus without distraction by the other personal interaction with my social network.

Miller, S. M. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), 14-19. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx
"Enhance Your Twitter Experience" shows us how we can build our Personal Learning Network and do so by utilizing all the interesting tools that you can use to make your Twitter better.  A tool called bookmarklet in which we can share information we found with our online community with a simple click and drag of the mark and make it available to the online world to use.  It is important to spend our time looking for information to tweet, but also to share information with others and take time to remember that we are all real people behind our computers with individual lives.

How can I use Twitter to enhance my classroom?

Other than the importance of teaching my students how to utilize twitter themselves for good and learning and not for evil, I can use it to learn and teach the rest of the digital world.  As a teaching professional I can learn an abundance of information from all over the world all while sitting at my own computer.  It is also my responsibility to share with others useful tools so that I can positively influence students across the world.