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Looking Back.. Looking Ahead: EDU 776 An "In Conclusion" to All that I have Learned in Integrating Technology Photo Source:  https://www.okcps.org/domain/106 What I Learned:  To be honest, when I signed up to take this class I thought, "what more could I learn about technology?  Dear Dominican, why do I have to take this to be a teacher?"  Well, how naive was I to think that!  Turns out I knew little.  In fact, I didn't know anything that was incorporated into this class.   I learned many new things each week in this 8 week course.   I learned that technology may not be as hard as it sounds. I learned how to blog and the importance of blogging.   I learned about different technological frameworks when it comes to education.   I learned about several different trends in educational technology.   I learned what a digital space map was...and I also learned that I need to increase mine! I le...

Personal Learning Network: Twitter My Twitter: What I Learned in Four Weeks on Twitter Image Source: Twitter @teachergoals So to be completely transparent, I jumped on the twitter bandwagon when it came out years ago, and deleted it after a few months because I was only using it as a tool to complain.  After my fours weeks using Twitter as a personal learning network I learned that I was using twitter in ALL the wrong ways the first time.  What an amazing tool it can be when it is used for personal and professional learning.  It is essentially a sound boarding tool for educators to collaborate, communicate, and educate.  When I was first given this task, I was nervous about participating in a twitter chat because I had never heard of it (what kind of Millennial am I?).  I quickly found that twitter chats are almost hourly occurrences if you follow the right people.  Overall I found educational resources, advocates, teachers, mento...