Building Your PLN(Personal/Professional Learning Network)

What Tools do you use?

•Colleagues•Publications•Internet-Searches•Others?

What If?

From Local

To Global

You Can!Cooperative

Each person is responsible for a portion of the work.

Collaborative

Participants work together to solve a problem.

DiigoCreate an Account

Sign up Here

Find a resource such as caddiscaster.com

Book mark it!

See who else has bookmarked the same site.

Find People to Follow

Diigo

Look into others’ tag cloud

Similar Interests?

Follow them!

BloggerYou don’t have to be a blogger to benefit!

Find people in your field who may be admirable or inspirational.

Search for them using blog searches:

Google Blog Search

Technorati

BloggerFollow them!

Book mark them!

Subscribe to their blog!

Subscribe to the RSS feed!

Begin to Build:

Check author’s blogroll

Follow links within blog to new blogs/bloggers

TwitterIdentify Colleagues who are admirable and inspirational.

Navigate to Twitter to create an account.

Use Twitter to find people you may want to follow.

Find people with similar interests.

Use Twitter to search for people in your contact list.

Remember: No need to Tweet to Benefit!

TwitterWant More?

Check out the hashtag #ff, or #followfriday. Member suggestions of who to follow.

Check your “Following” list to see who they are following.

Watch the twitter flow for RT (re-tweets) to see whom the comment originated.

Consumer of Content

Contributor of Content

Why Should I?Public Relations

Parents

Community

Share YOUR WorkPresentations

Classroom Activities

Ideas/Opinions

Share Student Work

Active Research

Passive Research

Crowd SourcingUsing the PLN to help find answers.