This is an update to a post I created as an example for students a few years ago.

The intent of this assignment is to think about the sites we use on the internet and how we interact with them. Some sites are public and others are private, so the way we interact with each changes quite a bit. Some are more static in nature, some are for facilitating teaching and others are personal social networks.

My website

I maintain a website for parents and students, a method of communicating what we do in class, major assignments, and contact information. I use it in my district e-mail signature in hopes that people will use it to connect with information they’d normally use e-mail to find out.

Schoology

I still use Edmodo for professional connections, like the PBS Digital Innovator group, but have moved my classes over to Schoology. The professional connections are not as robust but the LMS organization suits me better.

Edmodo

The first year I used Edmodo was for professional development and connections. It has great communities for teachers to learn and assist other teachers. Lately I use it instead of Wikispaces or Moodle for creating flipped and blended classes for students.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn has been a great tool for helping me keep my resume current. It’s interesting to connect with people from high school, college, and Anchorage and see how our choices and careers have overlapped. I’d like to use it a bit more for professional development, but in the meantime it has brought me more opportunities.

Facebook

Facebook has primarily been a way of connecting with family and friends, all of whom live thousands of miles away. The platform is easy to use and I like being able to share photos of my kids with my grandfather and friends I’ve had since Kindergarten, all with a few clicks.

YouTube

I’m starting to see the need for YouTube as a teaching tool and my only “issue” with it is that the content that should be easily integrated into classrooms is still blocked. I’ve loved having all of the videos created in my classes in one central location to I can continue to watch and share them.

Twitter

I have had Twitter for years now but not used it well. After the PBS Summit this summer I decided I need to figure out ways to use it more efficiently to develop a better Professional Learning Community (PLC). Past Digi Comp students have credited me with getting “everyone” at South to use Twitter and, now that I see what “everyone” at South tweets, that scares me. I keep trying to follow hashtags that help create a professional learning network for me, but I still find it confusing.

Instagram

I only use Instagram in conjunction with Facebook. I like the super simple ways of editing photos that otherwise look too dull when shared. Hipstamatic is a more fun and dynamic app, but not nearly as easy to use.

Pinterest

Pinterest makes me feel like a 13 year-old girl with pictures of Rob Lowe and exotic locales taped to the walls of her room. I like having things visually organized so I can find them again quickly and I enjoy seeing the things my friends pin. Now that I’ve used it for years it isn’t nearly as big a time suck as it used to be.

 

I enjoyed thinking about how I interact with different sites on the internet. I chose to not provide links to Facebook and Instagram, because I consider those sites more private and personal, while I did link Twitter and Pinterest. I use Twitter for teaching information and Pinterest, though some of the interest is personal the content is not. When I google my own name quite a bit more comes up that I could have added to this list but these represent my main interactions.

ISTE standard V – Digital Citizenship