My State of Flux Husband, Dad, Educator

Reflections

photo credit: MumbleyJoe

So I've been preparing for both an upcoming day of in-service workshops with the teachers in my daughter's district and also my presentation for the MACUL conference.

The in-service is going to be two sessions, about three hours each, dealing with personal learning networks (PLN) and the usual web 2.0 stuff.  I am very excited because I have been asking them about doing this for a couple of years now and I am finally getting the opportunity.  I have planned a pretty open session as they are bringing their laptops and I plan on letting them play and hopefully ask a lot of questions!

As I have been planning these presentations I am continually amazed at the amount of information, tips, tricks, ideas, etc., that have come pouring from my own PLN.  My Twitter, delicious, and Google Reader accounts have been invaluable resources in putting these presentations together.

The wikis that I have developed to support these presentations are chock full of links to places that I have come across thanks to my PLN.  I was finally able to sift through and put to work all of those RSS feeds that I put a gold star next to.  I was finally able to leverage my delicious links that I started collecting two years ago in anticipation of my impending district presentations.

Take a look at my PLN and my delicious links and hopefully you will be able to glean the same kinds of wonderful information, insight, and knowledge that has made my presentations all the better.

P.S.  I will present links to my wikis after I have finished the final touches and presentations.