Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Teaching High School in Croatia (by Arjana Blazic)

Mar 5th, 2010

To teach is to touch a life forever. I have been trying to enhance my teaching with the new technologies since 1997 when I created my first web page while attending a seminar on New Technologies in Modern Language Teaching in Finland. But everything I did over those twelve years was nothing compared to what [...]

What is a PLN, anyway?

Sep 10th, 2009

by Barbara.

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A good friend (and a great teacher) e-mailed me after my last post. “Great links,” she said. “But what’s a PLN?” A good reminder about why I try to avoid acronyms and jargon in my writing. PLN is an acronym for Personal Learning Network. The acronym is relatively new, but the idea is not. Teachers [...]

What I’ve Learned From My PLN (September 1, 2009)

Sep 1st, 2009

by Barbara.

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This week was about motivation–both mine and my students’. It started with an #edchat conversation on Twitter about the value of homework. Alfie Kohn (a man decidedly against homework!) shared an article from the journal Theory and Research in Education about self-determination theory as regards motivation. While the article was interesting enough, what really got me excited was discovering that ALL [...]

What I’ve Learned from My PLN (August 22, 2009)

Aug 22nd, 2009

by Barbara.

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Showing is better than telling. So, for teachers trying to decide whether having an online personal learning network (PLN) is worth the effort, I thought it might be useful to show some of what I learned this week from mine.