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Cultivating and Growing Your Personal Learning Network

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” A PLN can help you find and curate the best ideas and resources, and build a network of supportive peers in a time of constant change. Steven Anderson, Lisa Schmucki, and Shaelynn Farnsworth discuss the value of a personal learning network. It still feels like a relatively small number of people are truly engaged.

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MOOC-Ed: Coaching Digital Learning, Unit 2 Reflection

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Here is my Unit 2 reflection for the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change. Unit 2 focuses on the development of your PLN (Professional Learning Network) and becoming a "Connected Educator". Each social media tool provides its own advantages to any PLN.

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School of Dreams

A Principal's Reflections

Incorporation of flexible learning spaces throughout the building. Portfolio-based assessment using Seesaw and Google Classroom to provide better feedback to students. An entire staff that believes in the power of being connected and the importance of having a Personal Learning Network ( PLN ).

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How to DIY Your Distance Learning PD

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So after you've taken a needed respite from distance learning and its immense screen-time demands, consider these tips for engaging in meaningful online DIY professional learning this summer. The members of this group can constantly be in flux because you choose whom you want to interact with or reach out to.

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Using Digital Media To Connect Inside and Outside of the Classroom

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Leveraging relationships with educators One of the most simple ways to begin to breakdown your classroom walls is to build a strong PLN, or Personal Learning Network. A personal learning network is made up of people/places you go to gain knowledge, share knowledge and collaborate with others of like minds and interests.

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What does it mean to be “connected”?

Reading By Example

Lisa Dabbs from Edutopia attempts to define this concept: Connected learners develop networks and co-construct knowledge from wherever they live. Going from right to left, you can see how personal learning networks (PLNs) are only the beginning. In my school, we also use Google+ Communities to collaborate as staff teams.

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The Great "Learning 2.0" Strand Brainstorm

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I''m posting this same discussion on Google+ , and feel free to answer here or there (at Google+, there''s more opportunity for back-and-forth with others). and Social media in the classroom (Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, Podcasting, etc.) What would you add? What would you take away? Classroom 2.0