Carey Pohanka's Posts - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T06:40:41ZCarey Pohankahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/CareyPohankahttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1950115670?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2uxc4fpm9bjuj&xn_auth=noI Get Ittag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-05:649749:BlogPost:2296202008-12-05T22:34:22.000ZCarey Pohankahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/CareyPohanka
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It finally happened. I hit a wall. In doing my International PLP I knew that one of the goals was to push the participants out of their comfort zone. And that has happened to me to a certain point, but I grasped onto the experience and figured that the only way to get the most out of the it was to participate in as many aspects of…
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It finally happened. I hit a wall. In doing my International PLP I knew that one of the goals was to push the participants out of their comfort zone. And that has happened to me to a certain point, but I grasped onto the experience and figured that the only way to get the most out of the it was to participate in as many aspects of it as possible. So on Twitter, I sat back and just watched for a while before I said much. On the Ning I stuck to comfortable places like the flickr activity and left fairly innocuous comments on the rest of it. All of the things I tried weren’t too crazy for me (after all talking to people I don’t know is certainly a comfortable place for me).<br />
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But today it happened. I was pushed to a place where my first reaction was to run the other direction. On our Ning site, we have 5 new Expert Voices. I’m up for anything so I figure I’ll join all five in their specialties. Then I read a post on Ben Hazzard’s page that changed everything. His focus on our ning is Classroom Communities. In order to model building a community in our classroom he is starting a running club using Nike+iPod.<br />
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That is when the brick wall hit me.<br />
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Running? I was willing to do anything for this PLP, to get everything I could out of it, and now he wants me to go running?<br />
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I get it now. that is the feeling that my students get whenever I ask them to do something new. It is that feeling of pushing them out of their comfort zone to a point where they can really learn. So I will run (mostly walk) and why? For my students. So when I ask them to do something that seems scary to them, I will understand and will do a better job of walking them around that brick wall. And I am sure in the process I will learn more about myself.Life-Changingtag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-02:649749:BlogPost:2271242008-12-02T01:33:15.000ZCarey Pohankahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/CareyPohanka
This year has been life-changing for me. I have entered the technology world and there is no turning back. On September 8th I sat in the Reed Theater at Fredericksburg Academy and started a journey that would change how I look at the world, how I teach and how I learn.<br />
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I became part of an International PLP in which I get to interact with other educators all over the world. We participate on a ning site with educators from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I remember sitting…
This year has been life-changing for me. I have entered the technology world and there is no turning back. On September 8th I sat in the Reed Theater at Fredericksburg Academy and started a journey that would change how I look at the world, how I teach and how I learn.<br />
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I became part of an International PLP in which I get to interact with other educators all over the world. We participate on a ning site with educators from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I remember sitting in that first f2f meeting and thinking, “Huh?” It was overwhelming, especially because I was only two weeks into school and hadn’t gotten my “school legs” yet. But I quickly found that the International PLP was going to give me just what I needed, a learning network to make myself a better learner and teacher.<br />
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The best part of the network for me was that they gave me permission to NOT use the tools I am learning in the classroom yet. My assignment was to simply use the tools in my own learning as an educator and go from there. That was refreshing for me and proved to be just the advice I needed.<br />
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Since September I have found a way to have an awesome learning network of people all over the world. I have tweeted twittered posted 367 tweets on twitter, posted numerous responses on our PLP ning, joined a Foreign Language Ning, called into a radio show on the CBC about edtech, tagged away on delicious, joined a K-12 online conference Elluminate session, watched numerous conferences online that happened in Canada and elsewhere, took a photo a day for a month on flickr and found a network of people who would help me learn as an educator.<br />
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I can’t recall a time when I have learned so much in such a short period of time, and yet it just opened up a world of things yet to learn. Of course, I have changed not only how I learn, but also have changed many things I do in the classroom with my students. I hope to share in this blog, my thoughts, ideas, trials and tribulations, successes and ”learning experiences”.