My Contributions to Others!
I would definitely put myself into the category of being a life-long learner, but I don’t believe that this only includes evolving and growing my own knowledge. Being a lifelong learner means that I also help contribute to others’ learning and understanding of the world around them. Throughout my EDTC 300 journey, I have worked hard to contribute to others’ learning as much as possible! I hope you’re excited to read through and see these contributions in this blog post solely dedicated to them.
I won’t lie, in my first blog post about Twitter, I explained my thoughts on this social media platform. For the majority of my life, I had no desire to be a part of the community, but this class has most definitely changed my mind. This was where I found that I was most active, at first it was because Katia told us we had to for a good grade, but somewhere along the line I found myself genuinely enjoying posting to Twitter.
A quick overview of my Twitter (This is my first time using Loom for a screen-recording, so that’s pretty neat!)
Throughout posting on my Twitter journey, I think I have definitely shared some extremely useful and valuable resources for the other students in this class and everyone else in the Twitterverse! I also commented on other classmates’ posts which you can see below!
Comments on others’ posts!
Check out this Google Slide for all of my favourite comments in one easy-to-access space.
Participation in EdChats
Another part of Twitter that Katia shared with us was #SaskEdChat which is such a cool interactive way to connect and expand my PLN! Here are some of my contributions from participating:
Through these experiences, I was actually able to connect with quite a few other educators, and I look forward to participating in more chats in the future!
Discord
Another part of our course was a community chat on Discord! I thought that this was a super fun way to interact with other classmates and to help each other learn and grow. Here are a few examples of how I was able to help out some of the other students in the class!
Sharing a resource to help set up a blog! 
Catching a fellow student up after a missed class. 
A reminder of expectations for an assignment! 
Helping a classmate make unclickable links. 
Sharing a screen recording of creating pages and links.
Blog Comments
Lastly, I worked hard to keep up with my fellow classmate’s posts and comment on as many as I could! I found it so inspiring to go through their learning projects, and have even decided to try out a few of the skills over the summer. I will most definitely be using their blog posts as a reference for learning because they were SO well done. I also found that reading through the responses to the prompts was very interesting. I love to see how others view certain topics, and I’m always interested in seeing how others choose to respond to them. Here are some examples of a few of my comments throughout this spring semester:
A conversation about portrait mode on the iPhone! 
A comment related to digital literacy! 
One of the comments I left on a food blog. 
A comment about how digital citizenship can be related to the curriculum!
The opportunities that this class presented to grow (and now continue growing) my personal learning network is so valuable! I had the chance to not only connect with the other educators in this class, but with professionals from varying places. Although I had some hesitations at the start of this class about using Twitter and blogging, I genuinely enjoyed the experience, and I am so excited to continue growing my PLN!
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Great work Johnna! It looks like you have had a busy semester staying on top of your posts, commenting on others blogs, and staying involved with the Discord and Twitter. In the future, would you ever consider using Twitter or even Discord with your own class? Have a great summer!