Professional development used to involve taking classes, reading journal articles, and discussing issues at conferences. Although there was a time lag between new innovations for the library and classroom, and personal knowledge and implementation of those developments, I was appreciative of the knowledge for knowledge’s sake. But with Twitter, that time delay has disappeared. Twitter has become [...]
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The New Professional Development
Posted in Education, PLN, Twitter, tagged Web2.0 on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stage 3 of PLN Adoption
Posted in Education, PLN, Research, Technology, Twitter, tagged Education, PLN, Twitter on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After reading Jeff Utecht’s article on the stages of PLN adoption, I realize, embarrassingly enough, that I have only reached Stage 3: Know it All. For those of you not familiar with the post, it is not an egocentric state of mind, but a feeling of total inadequacy. Once you become involved in discussions online [...]
