Podcast Reflection #11: Learning Networks

       EdTechWeekly is a great resource because it always has multiple perspectives and people. This podcast, "Learning Networks: PLEs, Free vs Owned, Google Apps", has a couple different people discussing different resources used in the classrooms and used in education. In this specific podcast they talk about their new layout for their talk show, which includes more specific links about what they are talking about and how they are having guest speakers now. They talk about delicious tags, and how resourceful educational technology tags are. I believe a teacher could use delicious as a great resource by checking for tags. In this podcast, they all talk about different resources on the internet that can be helpful for a teacher or in educational technology. The one link I thought was interesting was PLENK. PLENK stands for personal learning environments network and knowledge. It is basically an online course that could be a great resource for a teacher. In the course the “student” does not have to remember a whole bunch of things for the course, but rather do many activities that are based on the web. It would be a great resource for a teacher because it teaches them things that are out there and it is a flexible course that could be very useful.