Social networks and learning networks

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About a year ago, I started teaching a course on Instructional Technology in Teaching and dived head first into the world of Web 2.0. Somewhere a long the way, I found a blog post that mentioned the term “personal learning network” and was intrigued because it described the process that I was using [...]

Reflections on Twitter

About a month ago, I posted about my intention to use Twitter as a one-line professional development blog.  My goal was to post every day for a week and then report on my experience at the end of the week.  I never managed to post seven days in a row and so I postponed my [...]

The networked nature of information

Sometimes I follow The Learning Circuits blog and its monthly “Big Question”.  This month’s questions were borrowed from the Work Literacy blog, which I’ve also been following lately.  The questions that Tony Karrer asked on The Learning Circuits blog are leading questions:
Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies?  Shouldn’t [...]

One line professional development blog

Most of the bloggers that I follow use Twitter to a much greater extent than I do. In all honesty, I can barely claim to “use” Twitter at all; I think I only average about one tweet a week. I can see how Twitter can be a useful part of a personal learning network, but [...]

A change I’d like to see . . .

As one of my professional development goals for this summer, I decided to participate in the first annual CASTLE Summer book club. The book we are reading for this summer is Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. The authors suggest [...]

A Discussion about My Graduate Work

Last week I got an email telling me that the next issue of the Alumni Magazine for the School of Education has a technology theme and my graduate work has been suggested as a possible topic to feature.  This surprised me because I haven’t really started my dissertation yet.  I’ve just written a short paper [...]

Networks and Mind Mapping

I was out of town on a quasi-vacation most of this past week and I used my time in airports and on planes to read two library books. The first book I finished was The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain’s Untapped Potential The Mind Map Book: [...]

Tools for Personal Learning Networks: Social Bookmarking and Citation Management

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts describing some of the tools that I have found useful for personal learning networks. I’ve tried out a lot of tools and I’ll share what I’ve learned about the tools that I have tried and especially about those that I’ve [...]

Getting to know you . . .

My husband may be the only person reading these words, but if you aren’t my husband and you’ve found your way here, welcome! (Robb if you’re reading this, you can consider yourself welcomed as well.) To start off, my name is Kimberly and I’m a some-time student and some-time teacher. As a [...]