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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

Why?
  • Sketchy explanation: Starting a PLN
  • Sue Waters: Why is your PLN important to you?
  • Sue Waters: Wordle
  • Joe Evans: What my PLN means to me
  • TechinClass: Personal Learning Networks

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 PD
  • Tagboard hashtag tool
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Social learning networks for educators

Multimedia
  • Podomatic
  • iTunes
  • Screencasting

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
  • EdWeb
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
  • Adobe Education Exchange
  • PBS Learning Media
  • Scholastic Teacher Share
  • Discovery Educator Network
  • G Suite for Education: Lesson Plans
  • tes Australia
  • TeacherTime
  • Apple Distinguished Educators: iTunesU
  • Listervs list

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

In-Person
  • Colleagues
  • Others

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How?
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Traditional Print
  • Setting up a Google alert

Professional Development
  • Conferences
  • Webinars: EdWeb and Google Education on Air
  • Unconferences

"Keep ahead of the curve"
  • Horizon Report K12 wiki
  • Horizon Report Higher Ed wiki
  • Learning Analytics MOOC

"Pay it forward"
  • Flisti
  • Diigo
  • Livebinders
  • Pinterest​
  • Google Groups
  • Nicenet
  • 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 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 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 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!

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