This document discusses using Twitter to extend one's professional learning network by tweeting about interesting links, professional reflections, problems and solutions, and personal aspects of life. Tweeting for a PLN allows one to hear different perspectives, ask colleagues for information and resources, make new connections, vent, enhance professional relationships, overcome distance barriers, promote ideas, and broadcast information to followers.

1. What the Tweet? Using Twitter to extend your PLN

2. We Tweet about...interesting links we have found

3. We Tweet about...our professional reflections

4. We Tweet about...our problems...and solutions!

5. We Tweet about...the human side of life(funny, quirky, mundane, ‘irrelevant’ personal things)

7. To ask for information and resources from a network of like-minded colleagues/friends

8. To make connections with people you wouldn’t otherwise meet

9. To VENT!

10. To enhance/increase the personal element of professional relationships and dialogue

11. To overcome the tyranny of distance

12. To publicise and promote

13. To collect comments (#hashtags)

14. To broadcast information to followers