Creating Your Personal Learning Network

         What?
Will Richardson on creating a PLN
Why?
Sketchy explanation: Starting a PLN
Sue Waters: Why is your PLN important to you?
Sue Waters: Wordle
Joe Evans: What my PLN means to me
TechinClass: Personal Learning Networks
How?
John Spencer on creating a PLN
Social Media
Kathy Schrock's Twitter page
A-Z Dictionary of Educational Hashtags
WeFollow
Twitter4Teachers
Getting started with a PLN on Twitter
Facebook
Google+
Multimedia
Podomatic
iTunes
Jing screencasting
Communities
Ning
Classroom 2.0 The Educator's PLN Library 2.0
Art Education 2.0:
K-12 Computer Science Teachers
Molecular Forces
Teaching Digital History
Mathematics 24x7
English Companion
EdWeb
PD in Action
Exploring eBooks for K-12 21st Century Learning Tools School Leadership Network
Adobe Education Exchange
TappedIn
PBS Teachers
Scholastic Teacher Share
Discovery Educator Network
Google Apps for Education: Lesson Plans
Blogging
Google Reader
Wydea: How RSS works
Common Craft: Google Reader
International Edubloggers Directory
Education Blogs by Discipline
Blogger | Wordpress | Edublogs
LeaderTalk


In-Person

Colleagues
Others
Traditional Print
Setting up a Google alert


Professional Development
Conferences
Webinars
Unconferences

"Pay it forward"
Flisti
Diigo
Livebinders
Wikispaces
Voicethread about PLNs

Additional resources

Connectivism article (Siemans)

PLNs: Where do we begin (Terrell)

What my PLN means to me

Getting started with a PLN

Hands-On Workshop

Part 1
Visit Kathy's Diigo list of Web 2.0 tools. Find a tool to share with others and share it in this collaborative space.

Part 2
Take a look at the list of Twitter-using educators and post information about one you might like to follow to this collaborative space.
Part 3
Look in the Flickr group "Great Quotes about Learning and Change" and post the URL of two posters you like to this collaborative space.
Part 4
Take a look at this Classroom 2.0 Ning and post a comment about a group that interests you with its name and direct URL to this collaborative space.
Part 5
Visit this list of educational wikis and post the URL and description of one that interests you to this collaborative space.

Part 6
Use the Twitter search tool, Topsy, to search the hashtag #edtech and then click on EXPERTS in the left-hand column. Find one person you would like to follow and enter their Twitter name and your reason for picking them into this collaborative space.
Thanks to Lucy Gray for the structure for this type of group activity!