Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it's become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown. This is a great website on how a teacher can use it in their classroom.
Facebook may be perceived as a distraction for online learning audiences. However, there are ways that instructional designers can actually use it to their advantage to create immersive and engaging eLearning experiences. In this article, they share a Facebook guide for eLearning professionals explaining why Facebook is such a powerful eLearning tool.
I chose this resource because it is an actual community of professional learning networks. It lists various different communities where you can see discussions between other teachers. It list communities by subject. Each individual community has discussions, libraries, etc. You do have to become a member to join this communities, but it gives you a variety of resources.
This is a very popular and engaging network for teachers. Eye-catching graphics, hashtags, and pictures share what it means to be a teacher working towards developing a better world. Teachers in this community enthusiastically share their experiences, concerns, and visions, and seem to want to connect to realize their full potential as educators.
This resource is a twitter page where Oklahoma teachers can connect to share their ideas, classrooms, and issues important to them (such as those regarding the state of the education system). Although it contains a lot of discussion about the education system, the twitter page describes itself to be "non-political" and a place that "brings OK educators together" through constructive dialogue.
