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This week’s session allowed me to create a Twitter
account while exploring the social media tool and learning how tweeting can
enhance my educational experience. Before I talk about Twitter, I want to touch
upon my experiences with regards to how I participated in learning from others
in a personal learning network (PLN). Using various methods and channels of
communication, I was able to discuss tools and topics that have been covered in
this ADED course thus far. I enjoy hearing my peers’ opinions and thoughts on a
variety of topics, specifically ones that I have discussed in my blog. I truly
appreciate it when my peers leave me a comment on what I have wrote or a new
discovery they made while reading my blogs because it allows me to think about
new perspectives while also viewing a topic from a different angle. Considering
this, I hope to learn quite a bit from my PLN. Overall, I think learning and
communicating with others in my PLN is one of the best learning experiences I
have had and I hope to continue to explore new tools and ideas by utilizing it.
Twitter was quite a fascinating tool that I explored
this week. Twitter is famous for its micro-blog approach and its ability to
create a social network market by using symbols and limited characters that
users can glance at with ease. Some say that Twitter builds your PLN but
in reality it is up to you to
make it work as a positive learning network and tool. Only you can contribute
to Twitter and only you can enhance your PLN within the social network tools. Twitter’s
advantages include having the ease of navigation and sorting out great
resources that can assist in building your PLN but it is still important to
remember that it is still up to you to discover which resources are credible when
following and adding people to your PLN.
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Twitter fits in my PLE, but similar to the other tools I
use, it cannot be added into one section of my PLE because it is a multi-purpose tool.
When looking back at my PLE diagram from week 2, it is obvious that
Twitter can fit in to all of the 4 categories: create, learn, organize, and
search and learn. Twitter allows me to create personalized short tweets
on my own which can be posted on Twitter. It allows me to connect and search
for my fellow classmates, friends and whatever else I may be interested in. It
allows me to organize information by creating lists for specific groups, such
as my ADED 1P32 classmates. Overall, Twitter
is a very well rounded tool that fits well into my PLE.
Looking at
my Feedly reader I have added a few more blogs and websites to my reader as
the weeks have gone by. My reader includes a mix of personal interests as well
as helpful learning websites that are useful in my classes. I have a midterm
coming up next week for one of my in class courses which means it is time to
study. I am finding it hard to study as I am a bit lost with regards to where I
should start since I am yet to be informed about what the setup of the midterm
will look like. To help me through this next week of studying I added http://studysuccessful.com/ to my Feedly reader. Not only does this link provide
me with a variety of studying techniques, it also provides tips that can be
beneficial when trying to survive as a university student who is under stress.
I recommend people to look out for tips, facts and other helpful guides as they
are likely to help you in your college and/or university careers.
From my Feedly reader I am able to connect what I read to
my learning inside and outside of this class. As stated in the paragraph above,
everything people learn about is connected to what educators and individuals
are using to learn and educate each other across the world. Feedly allows me to
read relevant information and twitter allows me to share that information with
like-minded individuals. I am constantly reading articles that stress the
importance of technology in education and that discuss the merits of using
technology to create an environment where one can grow.
Considering the points I have made in this week’s blog, I
look forward to adding more tools to my PLN!
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