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LinkedIn has been around in the corporate world for quite a while.  It is not something that has really gotten any traction in the K-12 education world.  When I was creating my profile, many of the people that were part of the circles were not in the K-12 education world.  They were people from my time in retail or other connections that I have made that are not educators.  I have always seen the importance of social media in career exploration.  LinkedIn is designed to create work connections.  The way it is designed to focus on your career makes it better suited to work in the job market.  It has been specifically set up to create job connections to help fit people with jobs that want.  This stands in a stark difference to other social media platforms.  All other platforms have very generic profile sections that allow you to put in the information that you want.  Some prompt for a work history but that is more to connect you to peopl...

Scholarship writing is different than all other types of writing.  Each type of writing is very dependent on the audience for its structure.  Scholarship writing has a very set and distinct audience.  The writing is for an academic audience.  This means that the writing must follow a certain setup guideline and be written with a stated and specific purpose.  There does not need to be any figurative language, only a discussion of the facts of the paper.  The writer of a scholarly work has one purpose, to relay the findings of their topic to a larger audience.  This is the goal of creating the paper.  This goal dictates the type of writing and language used in the piece.  The language needs to be very clear and direct.  It needs to lead the reader to understand the premise of the writing and the data that either confirms or contradicts that premise.  Scholarship writing is a difficult writing style.  It follows a very set st...

Getting my master's degree was a goal of mine for the past few years.  The issue was always, what should I use as a focus?  I started my working career in retail management.  I moved up the ranks in several companies and did well for myself but never really felt like it was what I wanted to do long term.  That is what I really started working with students in a meaningful way.  I enjoyed that so I went back to school for 2 years to get my teacher's certification.  It was longer to go through a university but it was better for you career than an alternative certification program.  After a few years in the classroom, I was able to move into a computer lab to teach a new course, exploring careers.  I was excited and jumped into designing a curriculum that was totally on a computer.  I had heard of project-based learning and paperless classrooms but I had no idea how to create one.  I started taking assignments that I tho...