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My Reflection Process

My Reflection Process. Barbara Nicolls. What happened? As participants of Reflect and Connect, we were required to evaluate a Web 2.0 Tool for its usefulness to our own personal development and to those we teach.

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My Reflection Process

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  1. My Reflection Process Barbara Nicolls

  2. What happened? As participants of Reflect and Connect, we were required to evaluate a Web 2.0 Tool for its usefulness to our own personal development and to those we teach. We in Team A agreed to evaluate Twitter which was the tool that most of us were curious about. The session booklet also suggested that we “Start with Twitter”! And we did. By the way Twitteris the most used social networking tool this decade and is fast becoming the tool of choice for keeping up-to-date with people in my personal learning networks.

  3. Feelings: What was I thinking and feeling? • Why use Twitter my professional development? As far as I know Twitter is used by teenagers to send messages to their friends about the minutiae of their lives. We professionals find it difficult to find the time for this let alone keeping up with our normal work! Is it another of those tech things I learn to use by myself as my colleagues will frown on me for introducing yet another new tool! • Nevertheless, I was eager to learn from my team and share our experiences. I looked forward to completing the task through Twitter sending messages @..... Followed by #reflectandconnect. I was confident that he moderators and Carole were experts in the field and that they wouldn’t have suggested Twitter if they hadn’t discovered the positive contributions of Twitter to our professional development.

  4. Evaluation: What was good and bad about the situation? • In addition to tweeting with Team A using our newly created #rcteama. No one dominated the scene but everyone pooled the knowledge and experience they had with Twitter and shared with all of us. We started following one another and from internal followers we extended externally and found CoPs working on common themes such as PDP, CDP, Action Research etc. I also discovered Tweetdeck and have installed it on my desktop. • Sometimes people get carried away learning new stuff and at one point there was so much information – people sending information and links about everything. I still haven’t finished looking at them Hope I am not missing out on anything valuable.

  5. Analysis: What sense can I make of the situation? • Twitter is useful for creating a PLN as I can use the Find People icon • and type in their Twitter identity to locate them. The I click on their • Twitter page and click the Follow icon.If I don't know their Twitter identity, Ican Find on Other Networks • or Invite by Email. This way I can be come one of the large number of • educationalists across the world who now switch on to Twitter to keep • abreast of what's happening, who's doing what, and where to go for • educational news as it happens. This type of social networking • enables a 'viral' like spread of news, faster than ever, creating • a 'learning community' of its own.

  6. Conclusion: What else could I have done? • Perhaps I could have made an effort to meet my team on Elluminate. • to discuss some of the points that have passed over my head. • For example, find out Tweets to glossy ebook...create PDF • http://bit.ly/ok7Xtthen ebook • http://bit.ly/gkHdqQ#vicpln#reflect and connect • 6 hours agoFavoriteRetweetReply

  7. Action Plan: If it arose again what would I do? • I will ensure that I can apply what I have learned with my work colleagues. • I will encourage my colleagues to use Twitter or any other web 2.0 • to form a CoP.

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