During this semester, I felt quite challenged when we were presented with the task of contributing to the learning of others. Now don’t get me wrong, that is LITERALLY what I will be doing for the next 30 years plus of my life, but I’ve never been tasked with contributing through twitter and through blogs, it is always through my teaching, something in which I am much more comfortable with. This assignment definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone, which is a good thing looking back now.

How I contributed through Twitter

I have been using twitter for close to half my life time. However, when I do use twitter, it is generally for personal reasons. I love following sports news mostly and that is reflected on 90% of my personal twitter feed. Twitter through this course has really pushed me to be more available and interactive professionally and I was finding myself enjoying it when I started gaining a bit of a following and interacting with people that I didn’t normally interact with. Twitter spaces can be really fun if you find the right one that you are passionate about and you can converse with people about a common interest that you wouldn’t normally interact with.

I was able to share ideas, resources and experiences with my classmates which I really enjoyed. I hope that my classmates would think that I did at least a little bit to contribute to their learning.

Check out my twitter to find out! twitter: EDUZumstein

How I contributed through EDUsites

EDUsites is also something that is very new to me. It was super interesting to follow everyone’s Learning Projects along with their takes on the assigned blog post. I do think that my experience as a practicing teacher really helped me with the assigned blog posts and I’m appreciative of that.

My only gripe with EDUsites is that it was quite difficult to find all of the comments that I made. I made a lot of comments throughout the semester but wasn’t able to find other contributions that I made. I would have liked to have been able to look back more easily on more of the contributions that I made.

Check out my full blog for more information that I shared throughout the semester! EDUsites Marcus Zumstein

Below is more of a summary of contributions that I made throughout the semester through screen shots and link! Contributing to others