Social Networking and Personal Learning Communities:



unpacking a shipment of new books

Whoa,  the last two weeks flew by! Trying to finish book orders, teach classes, and complete a grant so I just completed reading all of the "Thing 2" links.Lots of Great information!

The usual way I let students interact is via my website or wiki. For example, Voicethreads with 6th graders and Six Word Memoirs. I also do online quizzes and polls to get their feedback. They love writing for others and tend to revise over and over when they know others will see it.

 I really want to do an online reading group for students. The links you provided have given me many ideas.  

Facebook and Twitter are prohibited in our district, so I do not use those with students, but I do use Twitter all the time for PLC. Over the last 5 years I have found many wonderful resources suggested by educators on Twitter.

 I loved the hashtag info presented on the "Thing 2" page of the Cool Tools workshop and used it to find many other great people to follow on Twitter.   

Unfortunately when I think of Students using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter; I think of tears, arguing and fighting. So many of our students are being incredibly mean to each other. I have had a ton of parent calls asking how to address that, so I have preprinted sheets that I send home telling parents how to block people on various social networking sites.