Throughout this course you have began building a PLN - PLN - Personal Learning Network. Today you expanded your PLN by following blogs, allowing readers to follow your blog, by subscribing to blogs, allowing readers to contact you. That is just the beginning. You will continue to build your PLN this semester. You can use your PLN to learn from others, ask for help on any topic, and contribute your ideas and thoughts. You will start using various online tools to build your own personal learning network!
Building a PLN means - making connections and building relationships with teachers, administrators, experts, etc. from around the world.
If you didn't realize it, you have a PLN. This network includes the people and information sources that help you accomplish your goals, either at school, on the job or in your personal pursuits. They are the teachers in our school, your coaches, sponsors of organizations and clubs, your library media specialist, the art teacher at the middle school, past grade school teachers, the magazines you subscribe to, books you use in classrooms, etc.
Today, however, new techniques for organizing digital networked information, have enabled us to fashion new kinds of networks that extend far beyond our immediate location and face-to-face connections, and to grow our networks based not on explicit decisions, but through the ideas of other nodes (people and resources), whose ideas intersect with ours.
Having a PLN is about sharing ideas and resources, collaboration and learning. We may share our learning, ideas and expertise in different ways, using media and tools.
a PLN can be about anything... you can create a group based on a hobby, an interest, a passion, or your profession.
My PLN includes: Recipes, Money Saving, Social Media Tools, Health and Fitness
How to build a PLN? from Elena Elliniadou on Vimeo.
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