This document discusses personal learning networks (PLNs) and how to develop one for professional development. It defines a PLN as an informal network of people connected for the purpose of active learning through sharing information. It provides examples of connections like friends, coworkers, family and online communities that can be part of a PLN. It also discusses tools like Twitter that allow sharing messages to help educators connect with resources and each other to continuously learn and improve.

1. Grow your
Personal Learning
Network

2. Objectives
• Understand a PLN
• How to develop a PLN for
Professional Development

3. PLN
Personal Learning
Network

4. PLN
Professional Learning
Network

5. Collection of people who
connect together to
help each other
grow and learn.

6. “A PLN is an informal learning
network of people you connect with for
the specific purpose of learning, based
on reciprocity and a level of trust that
each party is actively seeking value
added information for the other [10,
11]. In other words, there is a tacit
understanding among participants that
the reason they are connecting is for
the purpose of active learning.”
~Clint Lalonde
http://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=2379624

7. Friends Co-Workers
Family Community

8. Friends Co-Workers
Family Community

9. Friends Co-Workers
Family Community

14. Twitter bird by Slava Baranskyi and can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/woofer_kyyiv/3581392721/

15. Free social networking
tool that allows users to
send and receive
messages know as
tweets.

16. Free social learning
tool that allows users to
send and receive
messages know as
tweets.

17. How does
help me as an educator?

18. Great Resources

19. Great Resources
Video

20. Great Resources
Video
Blogs

21. Great Resources
Video Articles
Blogs

22. Great Resources
Video Articles
Blogs
Lesson Ideas

23. Great Resources
Video Articles
Blogs
Apps Lesson Ideas

24. Great Resources
Video Articles
Blogs
Apps Lesson Ideas
Resources I may not have found on my own...

25. Follow amazing educators!

26. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

31. Together we’re
better!

38. Image by The Next Web and can e downloaded at http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenextweb/3346248321/sizes/o/in/photostream/

39. You don’t even have to
be on twitter...

41. Edtech

42. Edtech
Edchat

43. Edtech
Edchat
Flipclass

44. Edtech
Edchat
Flipclass
KSFaculty

45. How do I
get started?

46. http://
kstwitterresources.wikispaces.com/
home

47. Tweet others as you want to be
tweeted
Twitter Bird can be found at http://techno-time.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-add-flying-twitter-bird-to-blog.html

48. "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff."

49. Out with the old...

50. Bookmarking
Image created by colourized and can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/colourized/2096715790/sizes/m/in/photostream/

51. Bookmarking

52. Notes
Photo by vintagedept and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/3744085670

53. Annotations
Photo used with permission from Luis Caldas de Oliveira and can be found at http://
www.luiscaldasdeoliveira.com/2007/12/31/comprimir-um-livro-em-2-paginas/lang-pref/en/

54. In with the new...

56. Tags
Image created by Jerry “Woody” and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/3251579331

57. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywC_ebiSb4

58. u·biq·ui·tous/yo͞oˈbikwətəs/
Adjective:
Present, appearing, or found
everywhere

64. blogs.ksbe.edu/elcordei