Sustainably Digital

I’m currently taking a Educational Media & Technology class in my master’s program called Virtual Worlds and Social Networking in Education. A project for the class involves setting up a social network through some web 2.0 format and utilizing your network to try to accomplish a chosen goal.

I (of course) asked if I could utilize Twitter as the centerpiece of my network. I already had a quaint Twitter network, and had been thinking of expanding it. I have also been interested in how educators are effectively using blogs, wikis, social bookmarking tools, etc. in their classrooms.

As a result, I’ve actively been following new people in education on Twitter and finding that the vast majority of people I start following follow me back. As a result, my Twitter followers have expanded from 28 or so to 67 at the time of this writing (3/19, 10:03pm EDT). I’ve been amazed and thankful at the willingness of other educators to include me within their pre-existing networks. If you like what you see on this blog (or not), feel free to follow me (I’m WillyB). I’ll follow you back.

To tap into the vast experience of that network (which if you’re reading this includes you!), I’ve created a Google Form asking how educators are utilizing blogs, wikis, or social bookmarking in their classrooms. If you’d like to add your expertise, go here and add it! I thank you in advance (and greatly appreciate those that have already added their knowledge)!

The information provided will be summarized in a wiki I’ve recently created, and I’ll also be sharing the results on this blog once I feel I’ve gotten a good number of responses. I’ve been wowed by the power of the network in the past, and I’m hoping I’ll be blown away in this experience as well.

When I think back to when I wrote this post, I find it amazing that a few short months later I have a pretty vibrant personal learning network of my own. Nice!