REFLECTIONS - TRAWLING THE NET.
                              Tell me, and I forget
                              Teach me and I remember
                              Involve me, and I learn.
                                        by Benjamin Franklin.

I feel confident as a result of all that I have been involved in as an individual seeking professional development. This has resulted from all the numerous Blogs, Wikis and Organisational websites that I have discovered and accessed and curated. They provide a rich resource that is regularly updated and I am sure will enable me to grow professionally.

As my participation in the course through group discussions progresses, my personal learning network (PLN) is also growing. This is especially where my professional development goal of integrating technology in the learning environment is concerned. I can now review and access other peoples resources on the web to keep up to date in that area of professional development.

The skills of searching, sorting organizing and curating resources to increase my PLN has enabled me to complete the tasks of this lesson easily and confidently since I know where and how to access the information that I need.

I have come to realize that collaboration within a research group through discussions and creating and populating wiki's greatly increases our ideas, knowledge, and gathering of resources in specific areas and makes the work /course move faster.However, there are also disadvantages of collaboration involved when group members do not move at the same pace or do not all contribute.It slows down the whole group and disorganizes the sharing.Nevertheless, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.