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Here is my link to my table comparing my PLCs. I compared Whiteboards in the classroom and Gaming and the liberal arts.

I have resubmitted my PLC comparison. I compared GSA and Whiteboards in the classroom.

The article is a good display of how to use social media in a school. I especially liked the first comment I highlighted because it states plainly what we already know that kids are accessing social media sites, we should move with them and teach them how to use those sites safely and for good purposes. The article goes on to explain about sites that can be used for free that are kid and school friendly like edmodo, edublogs and kidblog.org. The article also offers teacher input from those teachers willing to try social media in their class and the results it produced. I think Elizabeth Delmatoff made a strong case for using and keeping her pilot social media program. I couldn't agree more with the concluding statement, "The teachers and parents who embrace social media say the best way to keep kids safe, online or offline, is to teach them."

This blog is about setting up your own PLN. He gives a unique approach to learning what a PLN is about- the gardener's approach to learning. He also likens the approach to learning as an ecosystem, "...where I cultivate the information, directing it to interact with other information in ways that bring me the ideas that I need to keep doing my job." He lists several web links that are helpful in understanding a PLN.

This blog is in response to the Lee County School District and their policy of use on Facebook with teachers and current students. The blog is well thought out with various views. The author, Karl, is a professor, consultant, speaker, scholar, and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He seems to have a good knowledge base to make his argument.

This article in the First Coast News is about how the Lee County School District is limiting teachers use of Facebook with current students. It is a very interesting take on how to use a social network site and learning.

I liked this article because it relates social media to both formal and informal learning. The first comment that intrigued me by Quinn, "The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections between people who can help one another". As teachers/trainers we should be trying to access all the tools in our tool belt to accomplish the greatest amount of learning. He goes on to say that social media can be a huge payoff in formal settings. By accessing informal learning methods of social media we can access 80% of the learning that is going to happen. It may even accelerate the learning experiences because drawing upon personal experiences allows the learner to apply it to other problems to solve. This leads to Quinn's assertion, "Having one place to go for additional resources around the topic, and to have that portal incorporated into the learning, anchors the learning in the real world, and provides scaffolding both in the task and to performance beyond the task."