Professional Learning

Network, PLN

REFLECTION

TWITTER: A great Social media tool to connect,

collaborate and contribute.

What is PLN?

PLN (Professional Learning Network) is also known as Personal Learning Network.

“PLN are deliberately formed networks of people and resources capable of guiding our independent learning

goals and professional development needs”— Corine Weisberger

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youtube video link down below.

For more information on PLN watch this you tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM--gK3W62g

PLN (Sep, 2013)

Unfortunately, I don’t have a screenshot of my PLN

from the beginning of this semester but I started with 0

followers, 0 following and 0 tweets.

The resources in Module 2 helped me in finding many

useful accounts to follow such as, EdTech services,

The Alberta Teacher’s Association, Alberta Education,

2learn society, Discovery education etc.

My twitter account is @FaqueehaMansoor

Alberta Teachers

AssociationAlberta Teachers Association

1. ATA is a great account to

follow because it provides a

network for teachers in

Alberta.

2. It provides Newsfeed about

education in Alberta and

about new programs and

guidelines.

3. Many teachers in Alberta

follow this account to keep

themselves updated.

4. It is a great account for

teachers to connect,

collaborate and contribute

their thoughts on different

educational conditions in

Alberta

2learn Society

2learn Society

1. It is a non profit organization

and it provides resources and

leadership for teachers.

2. For example, in Module 3 we

learnt about the Intellectual

property and Copyright. 2

learn resources help a lot in

describing the Copyright and

when can we use what and

what is the right way to use

something.

3. I follow this account to keep

myself updated regarding with

laws and resources.

Steve W. Anderson

Steve W. Anderson

1. He is an Educator, Blogger and he

is from NC.

2. His blog

http://blog.web20classroom.org is

very useful and it has some

thought provoking ideas and

shows what is going on today with

the help of technology and web 2.0

tools.

3. His tweets about students and

teachers are very engaging and

informative.

4. It shows how twitter connects

people from all over the world,

even though he is not from Alberta

but a lot of teachers can get

interesting ideas from his tweets

and accounts and contribute their

own ideas by giving replies to

these tweets.

PLN October, 1st 2013

Here is the screenshot of

my PLN from now.

• I do not have so may

followers because I

want to my PLN

professional and I do

not want it to be mingle

with the family and other

friends.

• The reason is because

many people tweet stuff

which is highly

unprofessional and I do

not really want it to be

the part of my PLN.

• I am sure that in some

months I will be able to

get more followers than

I have now.

PLN: Connect

PLN is a great way to connect with professionals from

all over the world.

It is very beneficial for pre service professional to keep

in touch with the veterans related to their profession.

There are a lot of useful sites and accounts on social

media to follow thus building your PLN is a great way

to connect and keep yourselves flourished.

PLN: Contribute

When we make our PLN and get connected to many

professionals and experts, it will allow us to contribute

our thoughts as well.

For example, I can make tweets about different

teaching theories and what I believe in or can make a

question for a lot of my followers. My followers can

then provide me with feedbacks and I can also

contribute by making feedbacks on their tweets.

PLN: Collaborate

Teachers can thus collaborate on different teaching perspectives, ideas and work by using their PLNs.

For example, if I will make a tweet about what is the role of technology in education? A lot of other my followers and teachers can thus contribute their thoughts and we can all collaborate by working and sharing our ideas about technology in education.

We can thus share our perspectives and why we think like that by giving reasons and thus can convince others if we are right or get convinced others’ thoughts if they seem to be reasonable.

My contributions on

Twitter I use twitter in order to gain knowledge and also

retweet knowledgeable stuff for my followers.

Twitter is a great social media tool in order to stay connected with a lot of professional and build upon your teaching skills by reading useful articles and different resources.

I became more aware by joining different accounts especially the ones related to Alberta Education because it keeps me updated with all the new information I need to know related to the curriculum and teaching.

Here are some screenshots of my contributions

and activity on twitter