Name Kennedy Surname MacheteStudent no: 201203186Professional studies 3ATask: professional learning network

My own professional learning network

Learning communities

Sharing ideas

Social networks

Communicative environment

PreziI made use of prezi to create slides, using pictures, videos and charts. Prezi enables the students to have more understanding of the content if they relate the pictures together with videos to real life situation. Prezi also enables students to develop critical thinking.

About.me

My professional learning network involves about.me, whereby I linked most of my social networks into one connection. It enables my followers to read and comment on my learning updates on various aspects.

Diigo

This is my newly joined network which I plan to use to communicate with students and teachers around the country to update one another on various aspects in my subject area Geography. Diigoenables learning to be quick.

Facebook

Facebook is the most targeted social network by the youth around the world. As a future teacher I made use of it to connect with students who are interested in sharing their learning experiences. I post topics and let my peers comment on them.

Twitter handle

Twitter is largely used by most institution around the globe. I created a group on twitter which involves my peers as student teacher and other learners around the country as to enable cooperative learning and critical thinking.

Slide shareSlide share allows a teacher or a student to enhance his/her learning by having to share his/her knowledge, it also allows to compare and contrast ideas. I made use of slide share by having to create slides of various topic to share with my followers around the country .

LinkedIn

LinkedIn works in various ways, whereby you get follow people of various professions and whereby you can have one on one session with a person with the same profession as you. As a future teacher I made of LinkedIn to follow the people who specialize in the same profession as me.

Tes connect

Tes is my newly joined learning network, whereby I discovered that it allows an individual to create a learning group whereby one can involve collegues and friends. It enables one on one session through inbox. Tes in my case is used to group individuals who specialize in the same profession.

Blogger

I made use blogger to share my learning experience throughout my varsity experiences. In my blogger varoiusaspects are included such the subject of my choice and how learners should follow up with comments.

Google docs

Google docs are used to share various kinds of activities of my subject of specialization, whereby PowerPoint, multiple choice questions and video template are created to facilitate learning student are required to go Google and download notes for a given topic.