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At such an early stage in my career as an educator, it can be hard to widen my scope of vision to include the future. Most of my time is consumed in the present learning how to effectively manage the many different 'hats' a teacher wears. When I first started to consider my vision of the future, I wasn't sure what direction I wanted to go in. I knew that I wanted to centre my vision on either 'collaboration' or 'personal learning networks' but I didn't know how. As I reflected I realized that over the past several weeks I have been acquiring the skills and knowledge on how to establish a meaningful personal learning network (PLN) through many topics of inquiry. Prior to this course, I had no idea what a PLN was and as I entered the beginning stages of my PLN development, I began to establish myself and become more comfortable in the online environment. Although I am no where near proficient, I've come to learn that the support system a teacher relies on and contributes to can be a powerful source of professional development, especially for beginning teachers. After some discussion with my professor Aaron Mueller, I decided that I would use the development of a PLN as my inspiration for creating some sort of infographic, perhaps something like 'Beginners Guide to a PLN' or 'PLN 101'. Throughout the coming weeks I plan to refine this idea as I gather more information and begin troubleshooting. In the meantime, I've been reviewing my previous blog posts including Will Richardson's YouTube video and have been gathering many different types of infographics as inspiration for what I might strive towards. Above I have provided an example on an infographic by Learn Dash on Blended Learning 2.0. In addition, I located another YouTube video by Edu-Sketch on 'How to Start PLN' that you can view below. This video provides me with more concrete 'steps' or 'stages' to a PLN rather than just information.
Moving forward, I have three goals:
- Refine my vision, what in particular regarding PLN's will I be detailing
- Determine what medium to use in order to produce my infographic
- Gather 2-3 different resources for better understanding
Work Cited
Infographic. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic
Personal learning network. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_learning_network
Edu-Sketch: How to Start a PLN. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSH5TMYlz4
Excellent post that clearly outlines your vision, your rationale and scope. You've included some useful reflection and also context for why you think this development of a PLN is important for all educators. Your infographic format will be highly engaging and will allow it to be easily shared and viewed! I look forward to following along with your development and feel free to reach out to your PLN (includes me!) for assistance and guidance with potential software and formats for your final artifact!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of an infographic. I've never considered making one as I didn't know there were sites out there to help. I just sort of assumed that they were made my graphic designers with either an agenda or time on their hands. This is so neat. I would love to experiment with the concept of making an infographic for my own document as then I would have some experience with them and could potentially integrate them into my own classroom with and for students. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there were sites available to create such things. Like Carmen, I thought these were designed professionally by graphic artists. This is definitely something I will add to my sticky note list of "things to learn" (boy, is that list getting long).
ReplyDeleteSheila