The Art of Cultivating a Personal Learning Network David Warlick The Landmark Project [email_address] http://handouts.davidwarlick.com

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A Working Definition A personal or professional learning network (PLN) involves an individual’s topic-oriented goal, a set of practices & techniques aimed at attracting and organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or personal interest.

Example + = Started the wiki Announced it in the blogosphere and twitterverse A growing and improving collaborative document (wiki)

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Components of a PLN Professional goal or Personal Interest Techniques & Practices (networking habits) Basis for Selection Infrastructure for attracting & organizing content from network nodes

Professional goal or Personal Interest

Techniques & Practices (networking habits)

Basis for Selection

Infrastructure for attracting & organizing content from network nodes

Tools of the Art RSS Aggregator Blogs Blog Searches News Sources & News Searches Twitterverse Social Content Social Networks Community Wikis M.U.V.E.s * RSS Aggregator Blogs Blog Searches News Twitter Social Content Social Networks Community Wikis

RSS Aggregator

Blogs

Blog Searches

News Sources & News Searches

Twitterverse

Social Content

Social Networks

Community Wikis

M.U.V.E.s *

A Sample Personal Learning Network