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Jennifer Waggoner’s blog post today How My Network Is Impacting Me got me thinking about my online learning through my professional online network. She reflected on examples of her learning and ended with:

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Shooting Gallery divx Corpse Bride ipod Through my professional learning network, I have learned that blogging is about more than posting my thoughts online. It is more than asking people to comment on my blog.

It is about the learning, the growing, the criticism, the stretching, the conversation, the contribution to the larger online community. A blog is only one cog in the network gears. My networks is made up of my blog, my class blog, blogs on my iGoogle reader, Ed Tech Talk, Twitter (somewhat)

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Stargate: Continuum move Through these various social networking tools, I build my relationships with educators around the world.  We post and respond in a global conversation.  I am not passively taking in my learning.  I am responding to and interacting with my learning.  By making my learning active, I am: understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.  Collaboration helps me see educational issues and approaches from various perspectives, giving me a much more three dimensional view of the big picture.

In the 21st century we do not have the luxury of closing our door and teaching.  Our students will be a part of the global community when they graduate and using the network will be an essential part of their jobs.  If we don’t do it, then we certainly can’t teach our students to use these Web 2.0 tools effectively.  If we don’t teach them, then who will?

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Dear Mr. Obama

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I emailed this congratulation and suggestion through the President-Elect’s champaign web site BarakObama.com.

Dear President-Elect Obama,

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Congratulations on your landslide victory that will carry you to the White House.  I live in Joplin, in the heart of the very Republican SW of Missouri.  Thank you for helping to bring some parity to a rough political area.  It got pretty lonely around here for some of us Democrats over the last 8 years.

I teach 3rd grade in Carl Junction, MO and I take great interest in the direction of education in our country.

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If you want to know how to make education better in America, ask a classroom teacher.  I urge to choose your new Secretary of Education wisely.  I care deeply for the future of public education in our country, so please choose someone who has real, classroom teacher experience for your next national leader of education.

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Too often decisions about education are made by people who have no clue what it is like inside a classroom from the teacher side of the desk.  Mr. Obama seems like a very smart man, and I hope he chooses well.  Good luck and Godspeed as you move into the White House.

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