What is a PLN? A Professional Learning Network is a way for educators to connect with one another and share resources through the uses of different variations of technology and different resources. I have a personal PLN that you can check out in my last blog post here. I use many different forms such as Facebook, School, and Personal Relationships.
For this blog post, I was able to participate in a Twitter chat. I used a website called “Tweet Deck.” By using this website, I was able to have multiple twitter feeds open at one time and it made it easy to see what was being posted.The link to TweetDeck can be found here.The chat that I chose was the #LEARNLAP. This chat is based on a book titled “Learn Like a Pirate” written by Paul Solarz. This book is based on empowering the students in your classroom and and having a student-led classroom. A helpful infographic on the difference between a student-led classroom and a teacher-led classroom can be found here. This chat was hosted by the author of the book, Pau; Solarz. The chat was created in July of 2015. I believe that the chat is held weekly on Monday nights. The criteria that was covered on the chat was mainly on how to make the best environment for your classroom. They asked questions about what teachers have inspired us to become teachers, what qualities are good for future educators to have, and even how to take time to encourage our students and fellow faculty members. I would say that most of the people that participated in the chat were educators and people that work in the education field. A link to the twitter feed can be found here.
