Social Media in the
ClassroomBrandi Hamnett
Final Presentation
My PLN before this course
• I had ZERO understanding of creating a social network – not on facebook, never saw a tweet, never heard of web 2.0…
• I was known by my friends and family as the person who NEVER knows the latest news because I was so the opposite of “in the know” – not on facebook, twitter, etc.
• My PLN was chatting with another teacher – something I often didn’t even do on a daily basis
• My circle was so small – home and classroom – and on a good day, the teachers in my hallway/pod
• This is a really new concept for me – I had never even read a Tweet before
• I still feel a little unsure about participation
• I think I’ll feel better after I observe for a little while
Diigo
• I love to research, both for personal and professional purposes
• Diigo helps me organize my bookmarks, make notes, and access my information from different computers
• Not comfortable sharing yet, but am interested in the group “google tools” and am finding helpful sites using others’ bookmarks
Google Groups - joining
Love the Google tools education group – so helpful for someone just learning to integrate this into my classroom. Most essential tip – for form tests make the first question the student’s name.
Google Groups - creating
• I plan to also use google groups once school begins to give the same permissions to a group of people for some of my google docs
• For example: I created a google group for my grade level partners/PLC team to use for collaboration
• For example: I think it would be useful to make a classroom parent group for sharing information
Professional Social Network – Classroom
2.0• Joined Classroom 2.0 as my first
professional social network
• Posted an introduction, updated my profile, and tweeted my membership to get started
My PLN after this course:
A much larger circle• Good old email – home and school
• Classroom 2.0 professional social networking site
• Diigo
• Google Reader
• Google Groups
• My circle even includes teachers from other countries! That’s quite a change from home, class, and maybe hallway…
Reflection
• The three stage explanation helped me to understand where I am in the process of creating my PLN
• Having had so little experience all of these platforms were a lot to take in – I definitely need some time to just get used to all the platforms
• Now I have so many options as I begin to move towards collaboration and contribution in my PLN
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