Final Project Personal Learning Network

It has been a pleasure to work with everyone in the PLN course. Thank you for sharing your learning experience with me. This course has provided me a platform from which to dive into exploring more of my personal learning network experience. Finding research articles and having them delivered to my inbox or reader for the first time was very exciting. Creating a Twitter account offered another avenue of finding more information which is enabling me as a teacher to find more valuable items related to my teaching field. The shortness and conciseness affords an opportunity to post items quickly for administrators which is great for schools that have a wide use of Twitter. I think that sharing the RSS feeds would be very valuable for my co-workers as they pursue advanced degrees, read professional readings, or just want to do more indepth studies. Whether it be professional or personal, I think that anyone on staff could benefit from RSS feeds. If I were a principal, I think that I would use a blog page format and have the faculty subscribe to the RSS feed and focus on subject matter that we have the greatest need for. I think I would call it the "Topic of the Month" and have an article of the month for my faculty. We could preread the article prior to grade level meetings and then have a discussion around that article. For my project, I have selected an area of greatest need for professional development and I will use podcasting similar to a slideshow format as an avenue to explore the topic of student data driving instruction. Since we have just implemented Star Literacy this year, I could possibly do some podcast focusing on Star Literacy. I am thinking that I could focus on student data, how to find that data for each student in the podcast, how to do progress monitoring and then share related instructional practices with the staff for professional development.