What are Personal Learning Networks (PLN)?
Personal Learning Networks (PLN) are about making connections and building personal
relationships with teachers, school administrators, university
professors, and experts around the world. Mostly, just sharing ideas/resources, collaboration, and learning.
How can they help you as a teacher?
PLNs can help teachers by collaborating online and
using a range of social media tools to build their own personal learning
network to interact with other educators.
How are they formed?
How can you create your own PLN?
How can you create your own PLN?
Their are so many ways to form your PLN. You can do that by finding information, people, and conversations on the internet about subjects you are interested in. For example, on the Personal Learning Network page, they mentioned a couple of things. One of the post stated, "Among educators, Twitter
is the most popular social microblogging tool. The posts are short and
easy to skim, and because following someone on Twitter is not a
reciprocal relationship (unlike friending on Facebook), it is easy to
create a custom group of people to follow. Twitter has been the most
powerful tool in the
growth of my personal learning network from a half-dozen teachers in the
English department lounge to thousands of educators around the globe."
Once you have came up with new resources for your PLN, two websites you can use are Symbaloo or Netvibes to help organize your PLN resource.
Who will be the first additions to your PLN?
The first additions to my Personal Learning Network will be educators in my field of study, which is Physical Education. I will also add my instructors and follow some of their people as well because I am open to ideas that would help me in my future.
JeNyia,
ReplyDeleteI like your picture choices and that you used more than one picture. I think that having a PLN geared towards physical education is a great idea. I feel like many PE teachers may not take advantage of having a PLN because they assume that they’re only useful for classroom teachers. Also, they may not be aware of the numerous resources that are out there specified for physical education. I think anyone can benefit from having their own PLN in any line of work they go into. Is this something that you would encourage both future PE teachers and current PE teachers to create their own?