Saturday, April 14, 2012

Technology for Professional Development

Entry written by: Brianna Hayne

Topic: Technology for Professional Development


Learning to use technology for professional development is something that is very important for a teacher. We learn how to use technology to benefit ourselves as teachers. Through technology we can collaborate with other teachers and learn from others who are incorporating technology in their classrooms. In class, we used different methods to collaborate and learn from other teachers.
            One tool that can be used is Google Reader. This tool allows a user to search for different blogs and websites. This tool is useful because it allows a user to search a broad range of topics and find sources that they otherwise would not have found.
            Twitter is another tool that can be used. Twitter is a very popular social networking site that allows people to share their thoughts and ideas with each other. This tool can be interesting to see how people’s views vary about education. Another tool that can be used for collaboration between teachers is “Diigo”. This is a website bookmarking tool. This site allows a user to follow other users, search for useful websites, save those websites, and share them.
            All of these tools are very useful for collaboration between teachers and other professionals. Out of these three tools, the one that I found the most useful was “Diigo”. I enjoyed using this tool the most because it had multiple uses; bookmarking websites and collaboration between users. Becoming familiar with tools like these can help us prepare to be better teachers so that we can teach our future students to the best of our ability. 

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