The Many Faces
of Social Networking
Bonnie Birdsall
@bonniebird [email protected]
http://tinyurl.com/DL2012PLN
A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator
(Click on the link above to see this infographic more closely.)
What is a PLN?
A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a group of people you count on to:
• guide you in your learning• be your source of advice and resources• make you aware of learning opportunities• share their best practices• point you to answers and support
(http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/04/14/building-your-personal-learning-network/)
Photo: Creative Commons, flickr http://flic.kr/p/2PRN1v
@tomwhitby We don't stop learning because we are old, but we might be getting old when we stop learning. #Edchat
Planting Some Ideas
I’m engaging in a conversation with people I don’t know and I feel respected. I found Twitter so powerful. It was like doing a Google search, but people gave me exactly what I needed when I needed it. I don’t understanding why every teacher isn’t on Twitter.
We always heard about and dreamed of connecting our classrooms with others globally, but weren’t sure how to do that. Now we found the road to get there. "We are in the profession of learning, we should be the best at learning."(Ray McNulty 3/15/12)
Some PLN Growing Tools
Diigo
Educator's PLN
Classroom 2.0 Google Plus
Photo: Creative Commons: flickr http://flic.kr/p/cw2eU
Twitter in Education Livebinder Presentation from Dynamic Landscapes, May 2011"Why Twitter? I don't have time for that!" (some good how to's)
Diigo
Bonnie's diigo page about diigo
Image: Creative Commons/flickr http://flic.kr/p/4jnDLQ
Other PLN Resources
CybraryMan's PLN Page Cultivating a PLN - A Livebinder
PLNs Explained, a video by Will Richardson Bonnie's Diigo page about PLNs
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