Comments on: Chapter 1 – Building a Personal Learning Network http://jasontbedell.com/chapter-1-building-a-personal-learning-network Making Connections for Learning Thu, 10 May 2012 09:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Bedell http://jasontbedell.com/chapter-1-building-a-personal-learning-network/comment-page-1#comment-248 Jason Bedell Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:40:39 +0000 http://jasontbedell.com/?p=228#comment-248 Oh_the_Places, You have some really great ideas that I'll try to incorporate. I wasn't sure if I sure include time references, but you're right, as the book evolves it would be better to leave it more general. The naming convention is also helpful. I use the same username across Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Diigo, Wallwisher, etc... I added @spedteacher's blog. Thanks for all the tips. I'll definitely be using this when I go back to revise. Jason. Oh_the_Places,

You have some really great ideas that I’ll try to incorporate. I wasn’t sure if I sure include time references, but you’re right, as the book evolves it would be better to leave it more general. The naming convention is also helpful. I use the same username across Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Diigo, Wallwisher, etc… I added @spedteacher’s blog. Thanks for all the tips. I’ll definitely be using this when I go back to revise.

Jason.

]]> By: Oh_the_Places http://jasontbedell.com/chapter-1-building-a-personal-learning-network/comment-page-1#comment-246 Oh_the_Places Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:24:33 +0000 http://jasontbedell.com/?p=228#comment-246 Another twitter follower screening tip I use is skim over other people the person follows. Often I can find a picture of someone I follow or recognize so I know they're legit. If you look at the user in Tweetdeck, it says when the person joined Twitter - FYI. Didn't know if you realized you are missing the link for the SPED blog. I'm thinking maybe @andycineck One Comment project might be cool to mention - places to find other blogs as well as get your own blog more visitors and hopefully comments. I also like @tomwhitby's advice - if you like a person's tweets, you'll probably enjoy their blogs since blogging allows for more than 140 characters. Something else I started doing also was copying comments from other blogs to my own blog. I did this with one of @tomwhitby's posts - I realized I was leaving a lengthy comment on someone else's page and I wanted a copy for myself on my page - for myself, but also to continue the conversation with my own thoughts and opinions. Another twitter follower screening tip I use is skim over other people the person follows. Often I can find a picture of someone I follow or recognize so I know they’re legit. If you look at the user in Tweetdeck, it says when the person joined Twitter – FYI. Didn’t know if you realized you are missing the link for the SPED blog. I’m thinking maybe @andycineck One Comment project might be cool to mention – places to find other blogs as well as get your own blog more visitors and hopefully comments. I also like @tomwhitby’s advice – if you like a person’s tweets, you’ll probably enjoy their blogs since blogging allows for more than 140 characters. Something else I started doing also was copying comments from other blogs to my own blog. I did this with one of @tomwhitby’s posts – I realized I was leaving a lengthy comment on someone else’s page and I wanted a copy for myself on my page – for myself, but also to continue the conversation with my own thoughts and opinions.

]]> By: Oh_the_Places http://jasontbedell.com/chapter-1-building-a-personal-learning-network/comment-page-1#comment-245 Oh_the_Places Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:11:10 +0000 http://jasontbedell.com/?p=228#comment-245 WOW! That student story in the opening is awesome! Imagine the skill and knowledge. I like the Twitter - TV analogy. Twitter gets such a bad rap as you probably saw in the THE Journal article. Most educators just don't see the relevance and see Twitter as a way to follow celebs instead of transforming their own professional development. You might want to remove any time references and make them more general. For example, when talking about #echat you said, "Last week...." or the rubric hash was "Last night..." Relevant for a blog post, but not a book. My two cents there. Another thought too when you talk about user names. I would suggest creating a name that you "own" and can market. For example, my initial Twitter name was ODSTech (my school and position), but when I realized I was making a mark for myself, and who know what could happen with my job down the road, I changed it to something that represented me and I wouldn't need to disown it later if my position changed. More to come but I don't want to lose this comment. WOW! That student story in the opening is awesome! Imagine the skill and knowledge. I like the Twitter – TV analogy. Twitter gets such a bad rap as you probably saw in the THE Journal article. Most educators just don’t see the relevance and see Twitter as a way to follow celebs instead of transforming their own professional development. You might want to remove any time references and make them more general. For example, when talking about #echat you said, “Last week….” or the rubric hash was “Last night…” Relevant for a blog post, but not a book. My two cents there. Another thought too when you talk about user names. I would suggest creating a name that you “own” and can market. For example, my initial Twitter name was ODSTech (my school and position), but when I realized I was making a mark for myself, and who know what could happen with my job down the road, I changed it to something that represented me and I wouldn’t need to disown it later if my position changed. More to come but I don’t want to lose this comment.

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