Still feeling lost as an individual seeking professional
development?
No! I no longer feel lost because:
- I know how to navigate the web to source for information and other resources using different search engines.
- I have a personal learning network comprising of my CCTI online course-mates, several other people and organizations and their resource sites.
- I know online sites where I can go for immediate help at the time of difficulties in my professional journey.
Progress of my participation personal learning network
- I am currently following quite a number of people and communities especially in Google plus. I am also sharing my work with friends on face-book and challenging them to use social media for professional development instead of just social issues.
- Having opened up my a YouTube channel, I have some people who are following me, viewing my videos and making comments, asking questions etc. it is interesting answering some of their questions. It is reassuring that to see myself helping someone online.
- My curation site is also attracting attention right now. I’ve already received an email from Gina Tucker, sales department manager at Scoop.it, asking if she could offer help to make my brand recognized on social media, to increase my search engine ranking, and to demonstrate thought leadership online.
Some of
the professional development sites I researched e.g. TES in Teachers TV,
required me to subscribe to or join them first before accessing and curating
their resources. This did not only allow me to complete the tasks in this
lesson but increased my personal learning network.
Collaboration
is very powerful. With it, many sites were researched, implying that by
visiting our general wiki, one has access to a good number of professional
development resources and insights. However, it is not possible to know who
contributed what in the wiki. That is a big pitfall.
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