Teaching with Technology - ISTE 5 - Participating in an OnlineEducational Community

I joined the edutopia community in order to show participation in an online educational community under the user name "Math Teacher". I happened upon this community when researching the my ISTE 5 triggering question and found a lot of interesting and informative posts and articles. I decided to comment on a blog post by Schoolhouse Media titled, "Social Media - Adopt or Face Irrelevancy". I thought this was especially relevant because of the ISTE 5 Google Hangout posted by Dr. Wicks. Because of this discussion and the blog post, I am considering ways in which I can use social media, not with my classroom, but as a tool to correspond with teachers about teaching practices. At this point, I am too new to this community for it to have helped in ways other than to shift my point of view on using social media to aid in teaching, but I do plan to keep up with this edutopia and see what sort of information and resources they have in the future.