Why Create a PLN?
WHY CREATE A PLN?
“From little things, big things grow”
I’m a fairly new teacher, and a relative newcomer to the online education community. When I become an active social-media Twitter user, one of the first questions I asked myself was “What is a PLN?”
Within six months later, I realised that developing a Personal Learning Network is an empowering, transformational process, which fundamentally transforms Links to an external site. your professional learning and teaching approach. And my experience is hardly unique Links to an external site.…
Real People, Real Teachers – Why we have a PLN
BEING A CONNECTED EDUCATOR
A connected educator is a connected learner who collaborates online and uses a range of social media tools to build their own personal learning network to interact with other educators.
Watch the following video to learn more about being a connected educator.
BUILDING YOUR OWN PLN
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!
The idea of this series is to guide you through the process of building your own PLN.
Remember as you work through the series we each have our own preference of what online tools works best for us and we’ve included the most popular tools for building a PLN to help get you started.
Source: https://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/creating-a-pln/ Links to an external site.