To the parent wondering what this is all about, that is the core of it–your child tapped into what professionals/experts/leaders-in-the-field/passionate-learners are thinking. And then, by engaging in his/her own writing, joining the conversation and developing personal expertise.

Imagine this technology decades ago, your child’s passion is math and Einstein is a blogger.

Matt Clausen’s last blog post..Planning the School of Today (and Tomorrow)

So I hit a sticking point way back at the beginning of the podcast. You comment on your students not really seeing the difference between myspace and blogs, ie, personal (friends) and professional (the world) audiences. The thing is, I’m not sure I could explain that difference for them myself. Where do you draw that line? I want to run around and ask a bunch of people who maintain personal and professional blogs how they decided what goes where.

Oooh… I like the phrase “I subscribe to their brains”.

The best way to tap into the social networks of whatever group you’re looking for is to go to those popular bar-designer or whatever blogs and see what other things they use in their info. Twitter isn’t everyone’s ‘verse thing–there’s so many other things. It may be the educators are twitter-biased and then bar-designers are all about jaiku or something.

“I know how to do it but how do I teach them?” Amen.

Along with them reflecting on what they’ve tried in terms of creating PLNs–post your own reflections on the growth of your PLN too?

Penelope’s last blog post..Things that Work

I’m glad you’ve decided to take the risk and introduce it to your students. It may go a long way in showing that Twitter & Skype are serious educational tools that should be included in every classroom. Your posts have forwarded my thinking on the implementation of similar “quick in, quick out” activities with my own students. On that note, have you or anyone you know experienced a large earthquake? I’d love to have my students talk to someone who could describe the feeling.