Throughout ED483, we have been introduced to a myriad of different websites, whether for social networking, or portal-type websites with links to many great teaching resources, or things like GoogleDocs [which I LOVE, by the way].  I haven’t attached myself to as many of them fully; some I’ve just skimmed and said, “this is not for me.”  Others I have clung to for dear life and use every day.

So, what’s not for me?  I didn’t really care for Delicious.  I think it’s a great idea, but for me it was more work than I wanted to put into bookmarking [not to mention, everytime I wanted to bookmark a website that I Stumbled, FireFox's Delicious add-on would prompt me to add that site to Delicious as well - sometimes they were just articles that I wanted to read later because I wasn't in a reading mood.  Overall, Delicious was more than I wanted and I didn't use it more than maybe twice.

I also had a few in-between type sites.  My blog is one of them.  Don't get me wrong - I love blogging.  I'm just more of a personal blogger and less of an educational blogger.  I don't respond well to articles and videos: half the time I forget what was happening anyway.  As a result, I didn't post as much in my EduBlog this semester as I maybe should have.  Maybe in the future I will use it more - I'm certainly not going to get rid of it.

What have I started clinging to for dear life?  Oh, blogosphere, let me tell you.  I. Love. Twitter.  With all of my heart and soul and being.  My Twitter is both personal and educational - I follow people from all different groups.  Some are people that live across the country, some are from ED483, some are friends of mine in the Marquette area.  I see the value in using Twitter in many different settings.  Another thing that I couldn't live without is Google Reader.  I check my Reader multiple times every day.  If I find a blog that I love [like David Pogue's NYTimes blog!], I always put it into my Reader.  GoogleDocs is beyond amazing.  I started using it right away and sort of never looked back.

I would say overall I have sort of a small PLN.  But it’s growing as I’m finding more and more cool stuff on the web.