Continuing this Journey

As I continue to explore my personal learning network, I continue to come across many interesting ideas and trends. Using Google Reader as a way to read about new and interesting articles or blog posts in subjects that I chose is excellent. I love browsing through the posts that come through and clicking on the links that I want to read more about. I am really loving the Teacher Lingo posts that I subscribe to. It brings me to blogs and articles about a wide variety of things that are applicable to teaching. Of the best value is lesson ideas and activities. By being a member of a personal learning network where teachers exchange ideas, it makes my job easier. There's no need to re-invent the wheel, so if teachers work together and share ideas, it makes our jobs a bit easier, and the students' experiences that much more enhanced. I am not really liking Twitter as much as the Google Reader application. I think it may be because Twitter's posts are so short and they really don't give you much information. I follow PBS teachers and though the information they post is relvelant to my teaching, I find myself not as interested in looking through tweets as I am in looking through Google Reader. On a good note, I do love iGoogle. It makes everything so easy. Now, only if Fairfield U could set up their own iGoogle, so Angel, Stagweb, E-mail, Moodle, etc. is all visible on one page!