Hi! My name is Isabele Hildy and I'm a freshman at FSU this year. I'm majoring in Elementary Education. I'm from Davie, Florida which is close to Ft. Lauderdale. I have a three year old sister and a white crusty dog named Daisy back home. I can't wait to go back home for the holidays to see them again.
I would say that I have many years of experience with education technology. In my elementary school, we would have short classes on how to use PowerPoint to make presentations for class. I still remember the first time I had ever used the program by myself in order to create a presentation on the Atlantic Walrus. In one of my middle school english classes, my teacher taught us how to use Google Sheets in order to create graphs and charts to include in our research assignments. There are also different types of technology that has been available to me such as the huge interactive touch screens in our classes when I was a kid, and an interactive, touch screen table that my eighth grade math teacher let us use to play games about math.
In terms of my own PLN, I would say that I use many resources for my variety of interests and commitments. I love learning things about the music I listen to and the shows I watch, so I keep myself up to date by using social media sites such as Twitter, Tik Tok, and Youtube in order to see behind-the-scene footage of watch interviews of my favorite bands and actors. For my academic responsabilites, I use sites such as Canvas, Snapchat, and Instagram to ask my instructors questions, participate in groupchats with my peers, and meet new people around the school. These examples are all ways that I keep my PLN recent and expanding.
Nice description about your PLN. When you draw a PLN diagram, think about your current PLN as a preservice teacher. Later you will draw your future PLN as an elementary teacher.
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