For the past week I have been following Beth Still's blog. She is a teacher in Nebraska who blogs and has very informative posts. Her first post, entitled Need Your Help: Making the ISTE Newbie Lounge a Success, introduced me to the International Society for Technology in Education, an event that I might not have heard of otherwise. This year they were having a new area, the newbie lounge. This lounge allows newcomers to the conference to become accustomed to the event without becoming overwhelmed. Still stressed the importance of making these newcomers feel comfortable, eating lunch with them, and helping them with whatever questions they may have. I think that this program is a wonderful way for teachers to connect and share ideas. This can help educators learn which techniques work best for helping their students learn. It can also allow for wide-spread change within the school system.
Her second post, What My Connections on Twitter Mean to Me, discussed different relationships on Twitter. These include people you follow but have little interaction with, people you interact with on Twitter only, and friends. She says that people can be friends through social networking, and people should consider people from PLN to be friends. She believes that friendships can exist in a virtual world and it is not a waste of time. Since EDM 310 just started using Twitter, I thought that this post was very well timed for this class. The ability of someone to use Twitter to foster so many relationships is inspiring. This tool also allows contact with people across the world, people that we otherwise may never have met or even known of.
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