Jenna's EME2040 Blog

- Working with Diigo was slightly confusing at first but i really began to appreciate it! Especially when it comes to how easy it is to share other websites with other people in your groups so that you can make their life a little easier as well! The annotating portion of Diigo was also fairly easy and creates a super easy environment to share your comments with other people in your community or even just keep them for yourself in the future. This can help in a classroom for easy dissemination of information, especially with colleagues as well. One website that can hold a variety of different sites that you can go back to in the future is great for helping professional efforts. - Professional development is vital for all educators in order to hone in on their skills to make their experience easier on them, as well as for the students.It is very important that teachers stay up to date and be aware of the changes in their students lives that will ultimately affect them as well. Teachers...

For my second independent learning project i chose Reddit. It was really cool to get to explore what other teachers in groups/ communities that i found on the site had to say and i can see this being an amazing source for teachers to use in order to expand their own personal learning network. View here:  https://voicethread.com/share/13795073/

- My experience with Twitter so far has been pretty good! I have learned a lot about the side of twitter that is designated for teachers and students and using Twitter as a Personal Learning Network. By using Twitter,teachers and students can receive information from other students or teachers to make their lives and their careers a little bit easier! I have not experience any issues using Twitter thus far and in my opinion it is one of the easiest examples of a PLN for teachers. - Honestly, creating the website was kind of challenging for me. Weebly was super finicky and didn't like to put things in the places that i wanted them (i am well aware this was probably just user error). I have never made a website before and so this was definitely a learning experience and i got the gist of it after messing around a bit with the website. Next time, i could probably spend a little bit more time reading the tips and tricks for the website. In my future career as a lobbyist, i could utili...