Teacher Talks

       I have to admit, the idea of posting my original thoughts and reflections on the internet for anyone to view was a little intimidating for me - there is something intimate about sharing your opinions with other people that don’t know you and don’t understand the way that you think. However, once I started blogging more consistently, it became a little liberating. I can share my thoughts and ideas on the internet, and the people reading them don’t know who I am. I can pose my thoughts and questions and then read comments from others sharing their responses or countering my thoughts. It is a professional learning community that is very different from the ones I am part of at school. It can offer a more open and honest learning space.       Blogs are a great way to communicate with people in and outside of your community. In middle school, I had teachers that used a blog to share updates from our classroom, posted homework, and provided additi...

          In the past month, I am astounded at the amount of learning that has been done in reading a few tweets that were 280 characters or less. Through this assignment, I was pushed out of my comfort zone into a world where I can constantly (and very easily) engage in some of the most impactful professional learning I have been a part of in a long time. Sheninger (2019) describes a Personal Learning Network as the people you interact with and collaborate with to work toward personal and professional goals (p. 145). Historically, these networks have been limited to those you interact with on a daily basis (family, friends, coworkers). Creating a twitter profile has exponentially increased the people I have in my learning network. There is no limit to the knowledge and resources I have available to myself through the twitter community.       Throughout my time on Twitter, I have been exposed to different perspectives, articles and theor...