How Professor Carol Tries to Stay Current...
My personal learning network consists of trusted colleagues and firms. I subscribe to several newsletters that are available to me from various CPA firms, who send out current updates and digests. I enjoy certain Linked In groups. My membership of professional societies helps me stay current. I enjoy following colleagues' blogs:
Professor Dave Albrecht's The Summa http://profalbrecht.wordpress.com/ is a great blog for accounting students. He also links to dozens of related blogs.
Professor Ray Schroeder introduced me to blogging years ago & maintains many useful blogs. http://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder/ The one most relevant to accounting students is his Techno- News blog. Notice you can receive daily updates from Ray from any of his individual blogs, direct to your email.
One challenge is keeping track of all this information; which was one reason for starting my own blogs. Now there are social bookmarking sites like diigo that I really like, but I maintain blogs (although brief commentary) for select subjects.
http://aiseducators.blogspot.com/
This was a blog I kept for AIS educators, while I taught in that specialty.
http://governmentalaccountingclass.blogspot.com/
http://auditingclass.blogspot.com/
http://aisclass.blogspot.com/
This was my first blog, and it dates back to 2003. It started out as an AIS class blog related to student presentation, that morphed from there. See the little robot image at the bottom right...from an early template of that blog. Robots for AI, a topic I covered pre-millenium and into the early 2000s (expert systems in AIS). Eventually AI topics gave way to REA diagrams. The robot is now just a logo of sorts to preserve memories of good old days.
Blogs have been a great way for me to stay current, reflect, and retrieve data. It is a challenge to stay current in accounting, in any specialty. I look forward to seeing what the Peoria audit class will contribute in their final posts to this team class blog, about their plans to create and sustain a Personal Learning Network of their own to go beyond the course.