PLN+Getting+Connected

PLN: Getting Connected
**Here, find out more about the importance of getting connected through a PLN (//p//ersonal //l//earning //n//etwork) **

=Why build a Personal Learning Network or PLN? = Educators today keep current by using the resources provided by the ever changing world of technology and use Web 2.0 tools to communicate and collaborate with peers across the hall and around the world. This page will provide information about new tools teachers are using to support their own professional learning network/goals.

Twitter.com
Twitter is a good way to begin building your PLN. Tweeting as it is popularly called gives you the opportunity to ask questions of the people that follow you, you will be surprised how quickly you get a response once you begin to tweet. Once you join twitter you can follow Steve Kerwin (skerwin) and Sandra Young (sryoung1), once you are following one of them then you can select to follow the educators they follow, and you have begun to build your PLN!

=Social Bookmarking =  Diigo, [|delicious], and Google Bookmarks are three of the more popular social bookmarking sites that allow you to:
 * store your favorite sites and you will be able to access your "favorites" or bookmarks from any computer.
 * share your bookmarks with colleagues and receive bookmarks from others.
 * follow "tags" (a keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information) on a specific subject to get up to date resources from other.
 * keep track of sites for lessons, units, projects, student projects.


 * Diigo does all of the above and more**
 * create lists and groups to more easily share resources
 * contains sticky notes, anootations, and highlighting features
 * you can create networks, groups and search for people to follow


 * // Your bookmarks on both sites can be set as public, private or a combination of both!//

Diigo Tutorial by Jennifer Dorman**

Sandra Young's Bookmarks on Diigo Steve Kerwin's Bookmarks on Diigo