Personal+Learning+Network

==== Do you have relatives that you don't see often? A friend that moved away? Or maybe you just want to double-check your most recent homework assingment. Social Networking sites are a somewhat safe, quick and easy way to talk to someone. On some of these websites, you can upload photos or videos. Besides just keeping in touch, you might learn something from one of these sites, too. ====

=== Social Network: Usually a place where you can comminucate online. This might just be a messaging system. One example is Facebook. There, you can comment, post, upload pictures and talk to people online. A Social Network might be your phone, too. It's also possible to make your Social Networking site into a Personal Learning Network. ===

=== Personal Learning Network: This might be considered similar to the Social Network. Usually, it's a place to learn. But, you might be able to chat with others on the website. One example is our Wikispace. Although we can post things and comment on them, its also a place where we can learn too. ===

= Notes: =
 * ====I use social networking sites to stay in contact with my friends. Even though I see most of them at school everyday, there are some friends and relatives that live too far away to see regularly. I keep in contact through social networking. ====
 * ====**I think that having my own space on the internet is a little weird. Having your own "space" on the internet might encourage you to stay online longer. **====
 * ====Probably. I don't use social networking to flirt or be...weird. I don't take 'pretty pictures', as one of the girls in the video said. ====
 * ====**I spend about an hour or two per day online. A lot more time then I should be.** ====
 * ====Um... I think it differs. I know some friends who most definetly spend more time online then I do, but I also know others who rarely go on. ====
 * ==== **Probably. I go on the computer when I'm bored. If I didn't have school, I wouldn't really have anything else to do. ** ====
 * ====I feel bad when I go online for long periods of time. I feel like there are lots of other things that I could be doing. ====
 * ==== **Yeah, I have commented on something and wished I hadn't. It wasn't anything bad though, just a comment that made me feel embarrassed ;) ** ====
 * ====I don't think so. I rarely comment or strike up conversations online. ====
 * ==== **I do think that people are different online. They can be 'perfect' online. Nice, kind, your best-friend-type person. And in reality be the meanest, most insecure person you're ever going to meet. Things like this can be misleading and end in hurt feelings. ** ====
 * ====Sometimes. Like I said before, I go online alot, but I don't talk alot. I do talk a lot in real life though. ;) ====
 * ==== **I wouldn't really say that I feel more like myself online. ** ====
 * ====My relatives and I usually communicate online, mostly because I don't get to see them often. It's harder to have good conversations when we're not face-to-face. You don't get to know their first response after you tell them something, only the typed response after they've already thought it over. ====
 * ==== **Hopefully they would have stopped. But we'll never know. ** ====
 * ====If I saw a person being bullied, either online or in real life, I would pray and then ask for my parent's help. Then we would try our best together to see what we could do to stop the bullying. ====