Twitter Challenge

This week , I participated in the RoCo #pstpln Challenge on Twitter. This tag introduced me to so many new tips and tricks and people! On Monday, we introduced ourselves to our new twitter with an introduction post, then we were to tweet out something about teaching that we learned or observed. Tuesday we had to tweet our PLN a question that we wanted an answer to. Wednesday we had to join a twitter educational chat. Thursday, we all shared an article that we thought had good educational purpose with our PLN. Then on Friday, we needed to tag five educators or educational pages so our followers can follow them !

Here I was given a shoutout from Dr. Sam Fecich on Follow Friday !
This is a great article I found that I shared with my followers on Thursday.
This Was my introduction tweet to my Twitter Education chat I joined. #txed
A question that was asked on the #txed Twitter chat.

Overall, I loved participating in this challenge! The most fun part of the challenge was the twitter chat we had to join. This really was my favorite part of the challenge. I got to see so many awesome responses to different educational questions. We were asked questions that really made me think. I had to reach deep in my brain to everything I have been taught about education. I not only shared my great ideas but I got to see so many new ideas that other people actually use in their classroom. I had so many “ah ha” moments when people were answering questions with new tips and tricks I’ve never heard of. Honestly I was skeptical about doing the twitter chat because I didn’t think it would be fun, when in actuality I met some amazing people and had so much fun answering and responding in the chat.

Blog Review

When searching for a new blogging site, you really need to take the time to look through each and every site you find and see which works best for what you are going to being putting on it and which fits your personality the best. We were given 3 different blog websites to chose from and review. The three websites were: WordPress, EduBlog, and Blogger. As you may notice by reading this blog, I chose WordPress, but i am going to discuss each one a little bit and expand on why I felt WordPress was the Blogging site for me!

I’ll start off with EduBlog. I created an account and started to play around with EduBlog a little bit and i honestly wasn’t a huge fan. I wanted to make it work because i knew that later on I could have my students blog with me on that site but it just didn’t feel right and I didn’t want to force anything. It didn’t have many design choices that i liked and it seemed a bit complicated to navigate. That is why I didn’t go with EduBlog. Below are pictures of the website and its settings!

This is the heading with a default design!
This is the settings where you would create blogs and pages!

The next site I looked at was Blogger. This website just from logging in didn’t interest me. Nothing drew me to the website on the homepage and it didn’t seem like it would be any better than EduBlog. I made an account and tried to make a blog and it just wasn’t as easy as I hoped. The setting area was pretty boring and it didn’t seem to have much of a creativity factor. Lets just say that blogger was short lived for me ! Below is a picture of the dashboard after creating an account!

Blogger’s Dashboard

Lastly, the beloved WordPress. Honestly, I love this website! it really drew me in with all the different designs you can have and all the different ways you can really make your blogs your own. As soon as I logged in, I was changing the font and changing the background color and changing the header photo and it just all came together so smoothly. I know i’m going to continue to use WordPress because of how fun, easy and smooth everything runs on this site! If you’ve used any of the other sites and you love those, i’m happy you made them work for you unlike me! Below is all the beautiful things i’ve done with my WordPress blog!!

My Header
My Contact Page
My Dashboard