Week 6 PLN

I would like to have a google earth aerial view of my PLN journey. I wonder how often I'm going in circles and how many bunny trails I'm traveling. Part of my angst is that I am so destination oriented. I like to have a place to arrive and plan the best route to get there...at the appointed time. The PLN is a journey. I'm not getting there fast enough and I can't "see" the best route or my final destination.

I had two good stopping off points this week. 1) I finally read through all the unread posts of the class (150+). Thanks for the encouragement in your posts and words of wisdom. Some led to additions to my PLN. (I wish I could remember to whom I should give credit.) I added three blogs to follow: ICT in the Classroom, Steve Spangler, and Successful Teaching. I continue to check in at Classroom 2.0 for the latest posts. I have not found an efficient method to keep up with this site yet. Any suggestions? For those who follow Globe, they are having a virtual meeting this week. I also found a site with 5000+ demos, many of them are science related. 2) I started my moodle course learning all sorts of how to's with the instructor using voicethread. I have two weeks to set up three moodles.

My twitter was silent for the week. I set up a Diigo account which needs some serious organization. I purchased Mathematica from Wolfram.com as a visualization tool. This, too, will have a large learning curve for me and I plan to take advantage of webinars to learn how to use it.

This week's assignment was challenging. It was good to try out so many tools and determine what works. I plan to stick with screencast-o-matic, slideshare, and voicethread. Screencast will be very helpful for students who miss class. Voicethread has great potential to for a discussion of the material. I have yet to work out getting those posted on youtube. It may be a user name/password issue.

Back to the journey...