Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything
  • Home
  • About
  • Appearances
  • Offerings
  • CONTACT INFO
  • kathyschrock.net
  • Blog
  • iPads 4 Teaching and Learning
  • Workshop: Inventiveness
  • Workshop: Creativity with Adobe Creative Cloud Express
  • Workshop: Inventiveness2

Creating Your Personal Learning Network

A personal learning network is just that-- a network of others whom you turn to for advice, to learn from, and to collaborate with and offer your own ideas and thoughts. This page will cover all aspects of why, how, and where to create your own personal learning network!

If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it! Thank you!

What?
  • Will Richardson on creating a PLN
  • Alec Couros: The Typical Teacher Network
  • Alec Couros: The Networked Teacher
  • Alex Knapp: Captain Kirk and leadership
  • PLNs and continuous professional development
  • Three types of PLN

Why?
  • Sketchy explanation: Starting a PLN
  • Sue Waters: Why is your PLN important to you?
  • Joe Evans: What my PLN means to me
  • Why create a PLN?

How?
  • John Spencer on creating a PLN

Social Media
  • Kathy Schrock's Twitter page
  • A-Z Dictionary of Educational Hashtags
  • Twitter4Teachers
  • Teachers: Embrace Twitter for PDl
  • Facebook
  • Social learning networks for educators

Multimedia
  • Podomatic
  • iTunes
  • Screencasting

Communities
  • 20 of the best online teacher communities
  • 11 online communities for teachers

Blogging
  • Feedly
  • Wydea: How RSS works
  • Common Craft: Google Reader
  • International Edubloggers Directory
  • Education Blogs by Discipline
  • Blogger | Wordpress 
  • Edutopia group blog
  • How to start a blog

In-Person
  • Colleagues
  • Others

continued in next column...

How?
...continued from previous column

Traditional Print
  • Setting up a Google alert

Professional Development
  • Conferences
  • Webinars
  • Unconferences

"Keep ahead of the curve"
  • Driving K-12 innovation

"Pay it forward"
  • Diigo
  • Livebinders
  • Pinterest​
  • Google Groups
  • Liveminutes
  • Voicethread about PLNs

Additional resources

  • Connectivism article (Siemans)
  • PLNs: Where do we begin (Terrell)
  • 20 tips for creating a PLN (Clifford)
  • 35 ways to build your PLN online (Lepi)
  • Get engaged: Tips for building your PLN
  • How do I get a PLN? (Whitby)
  • What the heck is a PLN?

Hands-On Workshop


Investigation 1
Visit Kathy's list of online tools. Find a tool to share with others and share it in this 
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.


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.

Investigation 4
Take a look at a teacher learning network 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 blogs​ and post the URL and description of one that interests you to this collaborative space.

Investigation 6
Use the Twitter search tool  to search the hashtag #edtech. Find one person you would like to follow and enter their Twitter name and your reason for picking them to this collaborative space.

Thanks to Lucy Gray for the structure for this type of group activity!

Copyright: Kathy Schrock. All rights reserved.
Republishing of these lists of links without express and written permission from this site's author is not allowed. 

Links to this page  may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Kathy Schrock and Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything with appropriate and specific direction (via the URL) to the original compilation of information on this page.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available by emailing the creator.
Kathy Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
Created: 12/20/2011
Last updated:
02/04/2022
URL of page:
https://schrockguide.net/creating-your-pln.html
No guest posts or direct advertising accepted. 

Kathy Schrock is a registered trademark of Kathy Schrock.
​All rights reserved.
<a rel="me" href="https://techhub.social/@kathyschrock">Mastodon</a>

KATHY'S OTHER SITES

KATHY SCHROCK'S HOME PAGE
KATHY'S KAFFEEKLATSCH BLOG
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
AMERICAN GRAFFITI HOME PAGE
Site created: 7/10/2011
Last updated:  

CONTACT AND SOCIAL LINKS

KATHY@KATHYSCHROCK.NET
MASTODON
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
LINKED IN
INSTAGRAM
FLICKR
PINTEREST