Creating Your Personal Learning Network
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_What?
Why?

How?
Social Media
Multimedia

Communities
  • Ning
           Classroom 2.0
           The Educator's PLN
           Library 2.0
           Art Education 2.0
           K-12 Computer Science Teachers
           Molecular Forces
           Teaching Digital History
           Mathematics 24x7
           English Companion
           Teacher Librarian Ning
           Free Online Classes
           Digital Literacy in Higher Ed
           iPads in Education
          
          PD in Action
            Exploring eBooks for K-12
            21st Century Learning Tools
            School Leadership Network
            Concepts of Print, Video, and Audio
            Higher Ed Instruction & Faculty Development
            Game-Based Learning
            The Brain and Learning

Blogging
In-Person
  • Colleagues
  • Others

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How?
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Traditional Print

Professional Development

"Keep ahead of the curve"

"Pay it forward"

Additional resources

Hands-On Workshop


Investigation 1
Visit Kathy's Diigo list of Web 2.0 tools. Find a tool to share with others and share it in this collaborative space.

Investigation 2
Take a look at the list of Twitter-using educators and post information about one you might like to follow to this collaborative space. Get the password from instructor.

Investigation 3
Look in the Flickr group "Great Quotes about Learning and Change" and post the URL of two posters you like to this collaborative space. (Alternate space)

Investigation 4
Take a look at this Classroom 2.0 Ning and post a comment about a group that interests you with its name and direct URL to this collaborative space.

Investigation 5
Visit this list of educational wikis and post the URL and description of one that interests you to this collaborative space.

Investigation 6
Use the Twitter search tool, Topsy, to search the hashtag #edtech and then click on EXPERTS in the left-hand column. Find one person you would like to follow and enter their Twitter name and your reason for picking them into this collaborative space.
Thanks to Lucy Gray for the structure for this type of group activity!
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Creating Your PLN -- Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything by Kathy Schrock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Kathy Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
Created: 12/20/11
Last updated: 05/04/13
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