Each day that I am using my Feedly reader I am able to connect a couple of articles and blogs that I follow together, for example I follow a couple of education pages and blogs and this is something that I am interested in as I am hoping to go to Teacher's College next year and being able to read these different blogs about what is and isn't working in some classrooms is really giving a wide variety of ideas for down the road!
Twitter is something that I think is great to use for advertising or even connecting with different people, through tweeting each other and having the option to direct message. I have used Twitter before so it was quite easy for me to navigate my way around the website and being able to set up my account for ADED 1P32, I think that this is a great way to connect with other students in the class, because we are able to use a type of social media and I believe many of us probably use on a day-to-day basis (I could be wrong!). I also believe that this is going to be useful in my education learning because the accounts that I am following are or are similar to the different online tools that we are currently learning about and using for this class. I think that being able to communicate and view these different tools from a different perspective is cool.
When looking back at my PLE I would say that Twitter would probably fit under the Connect section because it is a network that is allowing me to keep in touch with everything from friends to potential future jobs. But I do think that Twitter is going to help build my knowledge because depending on the type of accounts you follow you are able to keep up to date with the weather, news, and daily activities going on in your area and I think that this is going to help me stay involved.
One last thing I want to mention is a post about a teacher's classroom, and because this past week was their 100th day, they did activities in the classroom that involved 100, for example they hypothetically read 100 books, put together 100 puzzles, etc. I thought that this was a cool idea, and that it in some ways would motivate the students to want to do more, so that they were able to see the progress they were making throughout the rest of the year. This is something that I may use in the future!
Until next time,
Amanda :)
Hey Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI've connected with you on Twitter! I've found many of the same uses for the tool. Excited to read more about your digital explorations.
I really like what you've said here. I too am really enjoying everything that feedly has to offer, it's great doing things all in one place! As for Twitter, this week REALLY changed my view of Twitter and its uses. I'm actually using Twitter much more than I used to. Like feedly, I've made use of Twitter for following my favourite news outlets, I even found some cool Linguistics accounts to follow!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to working with you on the upcoming group asignment!