My Professional Learning Network

I signed up today at The English Companion Ning



This website will be the perfect jumping off point for my PLN. Through my English Companion Ning I am apart of a network of English teachers posting and discussing new and innovative ways to teach Language Arts in modern society. There are several groups ranging from teaching Shakespeare to teaching fundamentals of writing. I joined the Teaching with Technology group and subscirbed to the RSS feed of the group using my iGoogle account.

Communication Workout

Through Google Groups we set up and designed a page over our tool. It just so happened that the tool my partner and I were assigned was Google Groups. We looked up different "how-to" videos, and walkthrough websites for how to use Google Groups. We discovered many advantages, and a few limitations, upon viewing these websites.

Google Groups is an interactive place online where members of a group can post open discussions and create accessible pages. The tool is a useful way to collaboratively discuss and work on almost any project.

In the English field one could use the Google Groups program for group projects and group brainstorming for paper topics. It could also be an accessible and easy-to-use tool for peer editing each other's work from home if there isn't enough time in class.