I occasionally get questions or emails from people seeking advice about building a PLN (personal learning network) and recently I was asked if I could create a presentation on the topic. Embedded below is the first draft of a slide presentation about building a PLN. I welcome any and all suggestions for improvement.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter
My 21 Must-read RSS Feeds
10 Teachers to Follow on Twitter
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
How to Build a PLN
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I absolutely LOVE this presentation-- it's short, sweet, and to the point. I can't tell you HOW MUCH MORE I've learned from my PLN on twitter as compared with district PD experiences. I feel very lucky to participate with educators such as the one that writes this blog. Way to go Richard!
Thank you Kristen. I appreciate the kind words.
Richard
Not a comment on the presentation, as I haven't watched it (yet), but...
How do you find the time to read 21 RSS feeds and follow 1000 people on Twitter, plus blogging? How many words/day do you end up reading? I don't think I follow nearly that many different information sources, but I still end up having to tear myself away from the computer with interesting links still un-followed to get anything else done.
Thank you for sharing so many valuable tools and thoughts with us. Your brevity provides the clarity needed to present this topic to others needing a bit of well-stated understandings of how these tools can change their professional lives.
Thank you for sharing so many valuable tools and thoughts with us. Your brevity provides the clarity needed to present this topic to others needing a bit of well-stated understandings of how these tools can change their professional lives.
Great presentation! How about mentioning RTing. And giving the links to places to find people. Would be faster than going through other's followers maybe. For instance: Your post http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/03/seven-ways-to-find-teachers-on-twitter.html
Twitter packs http://twitterpacks.pbworks.com/Twitter-Pack-by-Topic#library
Twitter for Teachers http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/
Educators of Twitter
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmdX57Dqx0tEcE1fWkU1QlMwU2dxRGFibmhsOFoyYUE&hl=en
Fantastic slideshow presentation! I wish I could have shown this to my students back in Oxford when I was teaching them about PLN.
My PLN consists of essential blogs to view which are situated on my sidebar. Needless to say, you are one of my gurus!
Keep up the fab work.
Excellent first draft of the slide show. If I were you, I might be prepared to write a script or 'white paper' to flesh this out for people who are veteran teachers but soc net newbies.
Thanks for a great post. :-) I've been using Twitter, Plurk, and FriendFeed for some time now and I must say that while I love using Twitter; Plurk and FriendFeed haven't produced any substantial results when it comes to creating a network. I would be very interested in finding out if other people have had similar experiences...
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