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Digital Tattoo
          During my previous technology class, my teacher used a very vivid term “Digital Tattoo” to represent digital reputation of one self. It is an expression of an individual, highly visible and hard to remove. Therefore, people should be very careful what kinds of information and data they want to share on the Internet. My teacher also showed the class how easy people could search others’ information via Internet. From address, age, family members, profession or income, people can get the information right away.

Searching Myself

After my teacher showing all those, I feel so insecure being in this cyber world. My personal information may be exposed on the Internet already and I even not know who will have my information. However, after searching myself on the Internet, I was released that I actually do not have much information on the Internet. I only could find my twitter account information. I think one of the reasons is I seldom share my personal information via Internet. Moreover, I just a little tomato, and have limited online social network.  

Data Mining

After searching myself on the Internet, my classmate and I also searched one stranger’s data via Internet which was assigned by the teacher. During data mining the stranger, I found that it was not easy to get information as our teacher showed us. Even though he was a “Tech Person”, we only could find a few of his data, such as  his age, address, twitter account, profession, education and career background, some names of his relatives, etc. Moreover, we need to pay if we want to get more personal data and background. The whole process was quite frustrating, my classmate and I checked out numbers of websites and we only could find limited information related to the person.  I wonder the reason we could not get much information is because of our limited data mining skill or just because the person we were dataMine did not disclose much his information on the Internet. No matter what, that was a very interesting experience and helps me more cautious with internet security.

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Personal Learning Network

Twitter

I am not a “Tech Person” and I engage in limited online social network activities. I do have a facebook account; however, I only log on my account once a while to check out new posts and pictures from my friends and family. As for the requirement of my Technology classwork, I created a twitter account and I followed some education-related people or organizations. This whole process was totally new to me and I discovered there were a great numbers of educators connected on Twitter.  Since I was new to Twitter, I first picked the teacher in my technology class to follow, and then I browsed her following list and picked some people and organizations that related to education to follow. I am following 28 educators and educational organizations and I found many useful resources bombard to my twitter page every day. I do not have time check out all the resource link one by one. Yet, I do find some very  good resources through twitter.

          ThingLink
        One of the resources I find useful is posted by Susan Oxnevad on the “ThingLink Blog”. On the blog post, Susan provides step by step guide for teachers to build a ThingLink classroom. I also found that there are resourceful posts on the blog. I think that is very cool because I really want to use more technology in my future classroom to enhance students’ learning. This resource really can give me more ideas and knowledge to incorporate technology in my further teaching.  I definitely will visit this blog and follow Susan’s twitter posts to learn more technology knowledge.  

          PLN's on Twitter

Besides following some educators and educational organizations, I also learned how to retweet some useful resources via my twitter account and participate in an #Edchat. However, I made a mistake in my first live #Edchat. In order to participate in a live chat, I searched the live chat schedule. I realized there were so many live chats in different topics during the day. I spent quite amount of time to find the right #Edchat for myself to take part in. I finally found one was suit for my interest and time to join, it was on Monday 8:00pm. Yet, I did not aware of the time zone and I just could say “hi” before the live chat was over. Since the schedule which showed on Twubs indicated “your time 8:00pm-9:00pm”; therefore, I assumed there was no time difference and I missed the chat.

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As I have the previous experience, I chose another live chat schedule very carefully, and I joined #ndedchat yesterday. It was a live chat for educators to share their experiences and opinions. The topic of the live chat yesterday was teacher evaluation. Since it was my first time, I did not have much to share. I actually kind of lost in the beginning. The pace was very fast and I was very busy to follow the conversations. I also had no cues some terms they used, such as “Ts” “Ss”, “PD” and “ND”. Moreover, they mentioned about “The Marzano model”, I also had no idea what was that looked like. I found myself was so unprofessional and lack of knowledge in the conversation. However, I still tried to participate in the conversation and I found that I did learn something about how teachers would be evaluated and what they wanted to be evaluated. Even though my first #Edchat experience was a bit frustrated, I think I should make good use of PLN’s on Twitter to equip myself to be a professional educator. And I hope that I am not only get the resources from this network, I also can have contribution as well. 

Link of Susan Oxnevad's ThingLink Blog post