Week 29 - Professional Online Social Networks
Week 29: Activity 5: Using social online networks in teaching or professional development. So this weeks task is to use Jay & Johnson's model for reflection to critically discuss the use of social media in my professional practice. 1) Descriptive - I use social media for both my teaching and my professional development but for the purposes of this blog I will only talk about it's use in a teaching capacity. Most of the social media I use is to help me come up with ideas for lessons to share with and teach to the children. Pinterest has been a favourite of mine specifically for art ideas. It has helped to make my art lessons more exiting and enticing for the children and so has been a fantastic resource so far. I use youtube a lot to teach children new things, fantastic way to teach something that I personally do not have a lot of knowledge on. I also use it to share their learning. I have made videos of their learning and videos of book...