Develop Your PLN (Personal Learning Network)
Below, you'll find several approaches to PLNs. There's no right or wrong way to get started, so take what you like and leave the rest.
Excerpt from the wiki by Australian educator, Sue Waters
The aim of Sue's site is to help you gain the skills to build your own personal learning network (PLN)! Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connects with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community. PLNs increase our opportunities to ask questions and receive help compared to our normal daily face-to-face interactions.
Best of a PLN is it's personal! You make all the choices:
- What tools you use!
- Who you connect with!
- How you want to learn!
- When you want to learn!
Personal Learning Networks: The Power of the Human Network
What is a Personal Learning Network (PLN)?
Definition One: Personal Learning Networks are:
- a concept based on Web 2.0 and social software
- learner-driven, problem-based, or motivated by interested
- based on the idea that learning will take place in different contexts, and not come from one place or person
- set their own learning goals
- manage their learning; managing both content and process
- communicate with others in the process of learning
- and thereby achieve learning goals
This information is from a wiki by Judith Epcke (@jepcke) and Scott Meech (@smeech). Continue reading at the wiki.
Judy & Scott's work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
- Free Tech for Teachers A blog by Richard Byrne about, well, free tech for teachers. Reviews, advice, descriptions of how teachers use the tech.
- What should I read? - A few suggestions.
- Social Media Reading List - The idea for this page is to build a 'best of the web' reading / watching list for school leadership regarding using social media for school advancement. Rather than talk about how great social media is we're using social media to build this reading list.
- A 21st Century Professional Development Proposal: a Personal Learning Network + specific web tools = a true 21st century teacher.