This document provides a comprehensive list of online tools and resources for building a personal learning network (PLN) including social networks, blogs, wikis, microblogs, RSS feeds, collaborative workspaces, presentations, photo sharing, discussions and more. It also lists specific PLN groups on sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning and Second Life and invites the reader to join the author's own PLN through following her blogs, wiki and social media accounts.

1. Jennifer Carrier Dorman – http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ppln
POWER UP YOUR
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK

2. Where I Learn

3. Functions of a PLN

4. PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL
NETWORKS

5. http://community.discoveryeducation.com

6. http://www.google.com/educators/

7. http://www.innovativeteachers.com/

8. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/

9. http://www.linkedin.com/
LinkedIn Groups:
•ISTE
•Discovery Educator Network
•Edubloggers
•Learning, Education and
Training Professionals Group

11. Facebook
Groups
•Discovery Educator Network
•ISTE
•Second Life for Educators
•Classroom 2.0
•Educational Technologists
•Using Wiki in Education
•School 2.0
http://www.facebook.com/

12. Ning
http://www.classroom20.com/
http://edubloggerworld.ning.com/
http://education20.ning.com/
http://eduwiki.ning.com/
http://education.ning.com/
http://necc2008.ning.com/
http://linkedteachers.ning.com/
http://teachingntechnology.ning.com/

13. Professional Organizations
• Consider what your national, state, and
regional professional organizations offer for
educators
• List of Professional Organizations:
– http://snipurl.com/proforg

14. RSS AGGREGATORS &
INTERNET START PAGES

16. Finding Feeds
• Blogs, podcasts, news sites, and
many other media services syndicate
their content through RSS feeds

17. Customized News Feeds
http://news.google.com/

18. http://www.google.com/reader/

19. http://www.google.com/ig

20. http://www.bloglines.com/

21. http://www.netvibes.com/

22. http://protopage.com/

23. http://www.pageflakes.com/

24. http://grazr.com/

25. MICROBLOGS

26. http://twitter.com/

28. http://www.twiffid.com/

29. Twit Search
http://search.twitter.com/

30. http://plodt.com/

31. http://plodt.com/

32. • A Phweet is a shortURL that makes conversations
and conference calls possible between Twitter
friends and across other social networks.
• Phweet lets you accept calls with one click from
your Twitter page or Twitter clients.
http://phweet.com/

33. Why Tweet When You Can Plurk?
http://www.plurk.com/

34. http://www.plurk.com/p/609hk

36. Other Microblogs
http://pownce.com/
http://jaiku.com/
http://www.kwippy.com/

37. Lifestream
• Tumblr
– http://www.tumblr.com/
• FriendFeed
– http://friendfeed.com/

38. Managing Multiple Accounts
Ping.fm - http://ping.fm/
AtomKeep - http://www.atomkeep.com/

39. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING &
ANNOTATING

40. Social Bookmarking
http://delicious.com/

41. Social Annotation - Diigo
http://diigo.com/

42. http://tinyurl.com/6zosub

44. BLOGS

45. Popular Blogging Engines
• Blogger
– http://www.blogger.com/
• WordPress
– http://wordpress.org/
• EduBlogs
– http://edublogs.org/
• Windows Live Spaces
– http://spaces.live.com/

46. http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/pennsylvania/

48. Graphing my Blog
What do the colors mean?
•blue: for links
•red: for tables
•green: for the DIV tag
•violet: for images
•yellow: for forms
•orange: for linebreaks and
block quotes
•black: the HTML tag, the
root node
•gray: all other tags
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

49. Collaborative Live
Blogging with Integrated
Media
http://www.coveritlive.com/

50. PODCASTS

51. iTunes + Podcasts

53. VIDEO

54. http://www.youtube.com/

55. http://www.ustream.tv/
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cliotech

56. http://qik.com/

57. http://www.mogulus.com/
Like USTREAM and Qik,
Mogulus embeds seamlessly
with CoverItLive.

58. WIKIS

59. Education-Friendly Wikis
• Wikispaces
– http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
• PB Wiki
– http://pbwiki.com/education.wiki
• Wet Paint
– http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education--Ad-Free

60. http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/

61. http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/

62. Graphing my Wiki
What do the colors mean?
•blue: for links
•red: for tables
•green: for the DIV tag
•violet: for images
•yellow: for forms
•orange: for linebreaks and
block quotes
•black: the HTML tag, the
root node
•gray: all other tags
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

63. COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE

64. Mind Mapping
http://bubbl.us/
http://www.gliffy.com/
http://www.mindmeister.com/
http://mindomo.com/
http://www.mind42.com/
http://www.wisemapping.com/
http://www.glinkr.net/
http://www.mywebspiration.com/
http://snipurl.com/freemindd *

65. http://www.zoho.com/

66. http://docs.google.com/

67. http://www.google.com/notebook/

68. http://groups.google.com/

69. http://sites.google.com/

70. Collaborative File Storage
• http://drop.io/
• http://box.net/

71. INTERACTIVE PUBLISHING

72. Presentations
• SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/

73. Online Presentation Tools
• SlideRocket • 280 Slides
– http://www.sliderocket.com/ – http://280slides.com/
• Zoho Show • Google Presentations
– http://show.zoho.com/ – http://docs.google.com/
• authorSTREAM • Flowgram
– http://www.authorstream.com/ – http://www.flowgram.com/
• Spresent • Voicethread
– http://www.spresent.com/ – http://voicethread.com/

74. http://www.scribd.com/

75. Photo Sharing
• http://flickr.com/
• http://picasa.google.com/
• http://www.shutterfly.com/
• http://www.snapfish.com/

76. ONLINE DISCUSSIONS / MEETINGS

77. http://snipurl.com/denwebinars

78. http://edtechtalk.com/

79. http://wiki.classroom20.com/live%20conversations

80. http://www.wiziq.com/

81. Chat Rooms
http://www.meebo.com/rooms/
http://www.chatterous.com/
http://www.chatzy.com/
http://chat.zoho.com/

82. VOIP / Text / Video
http://skype.com/
http://www.oovoo.com/

83. http://secondlife.com/
PLN ON THE MUVE

84. DEN in Second Life
• DEN in Second Life SLUR
– http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/75/100/22
• DEN Second Life Blog
– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/secondlife
Clio Jacobus

85. Brain Rules Book Group
http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoveryeducation/

86. Join My PLN
• Blogs
– http://cliotech.blogspot.com/
– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/pennsylvania
• Wiki
– http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/
• Twitter
– http://twitter.com/cliotech
• Plurk
– http://www.plurk.com/user/cliotech