The coffee is cooling and the to do list seems to be able to add items to itself. The coffee house is filling up with laughter and music, time marches relentlessly onward. What strikes me about writing is that all of the things that keep me from writing will pass, all but the puppets, but the writing will remain.
The writing has the potential of going further than even the conversations I have with students. A year of blogging has added another cognitive layer to my teaching. It has added 1200 people to my world through Twitter.
The shift isn't in how much time I spend on my computer it is in how many people I collaborate with.
I am prepping for a conference talk on PLN building for Students, Teachers, and Administrators. So much of the talk will be focused on collaboration. Finding the right people to collaborate with is transformative. Consider a definition of Digital Citizenship that focused on creating a safe space for collaboration. We are each responsible for creating our own interactive space online. The choices we make about platform, sharing, and following shape this space and those choices are driven by our mindset when we come to the internet. My PLN is only part of my digital identity. I am afraid I have allowed the fact that this post is reflective to enable me to ramble.
In an effort to look like I planned this I will now drop in a bulleted list of lessons learned:
Lessons Learned from a Year of Blogging:
As I schedule my response time to essays and I tote the papers from home to work and back again, I am in daily conversation with teachers doing the same thing. We share ideas and my practice improves. I have everything to learn and this is how I do it.
Thank you for reading mypaperlessclassroom, as long as you keep reading I will continue to learn and build this space for sharing and reflection.
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The shift isn't in how much time I spend on my computer it is in how many people I collaborate with.
I am prepping for a conference talk on PLN building for Students, Teachers, and Administrators. So much of the talk will be focused on collaboration. Finding the right people to collaborate with is transformative. Consider a definition of Digital Citizenship that focused on creating a safe space for collaboration. We are each responsible for creating our own interactive space online. The choices we make about platform, sharing, and following shape this space and those choices are driven by our mindset when we come to the internet. My PLN is only part of my digital identity. I am afraid I have allowed the fact that this post is reflective to enable me to ramble.
In an effort to look like I planned this I will now drop in a bulleted list of lessons learned:
Lessons Learned from a Year of Blogging:
- People only read your blog if you write it.
- Writing makes all the difference in the world.
- Say yes.
As I schedule my response time to essays and I tote the papers from home to work and back again, I am in daily conversation with teachers doing the same thing. We share ideas and my practice improves. I have everything to learn and this is how I do it.
Thank you for reading mypaperlessclassroom, as long as you keep reading I will continue to learn and build this space for sharing and reflection.
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