PLN

Personal Learning Network

How are you connected?

What is a PLN?
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PLNs for Teachers

How do I get a PLN Building your PLN - Edublogs If you don't have a PLN, you don't know what you're missing Dr. Seuss inspired Twitter book [|Kathy Schrock's webinar on PLN]

Finding Communities
edweb.net - you can join a wide variety of educational communities that offer resources and webinars. The Educator's PLN - personal learning networ for teachers (a ning)

Twitter
Educator's Ultimate Twitter Guide 2014 Top 100 tools for the Twittering teacher Kathy Schrock's Everything Twitter 100 ways to use Twitter in education 100 ways to use Twitter in the classroom 10 ways teachers can use Twitter for professional development Twitter in education (a LiveBinder) Educators new to Twitter

Dashboards for Twitter
A beginning tutorial for TweetDeck

Hashtags & Chats
How to participate in a Twitter chat Complete guide to hashtags for education There's a chat for that How to get the most out of hashtags 13 great Twitter chats every educator should know Elementary Chat List of weekly Twitter chats A to Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags Cybraryman's list of educational hashtags

Blogs
Using blogs as part of your PLN Benefits of educational blogging Quadblogging - Connect with other classroom blogs from around the world Example: Kathy Cassidy's classroom blog 6 positive effects of blogging in kindergarten Top 50 education blogs

Diigo
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The [|Diigo Help] site has multiple Flash tutorials on various features. Diigo for Educators - Information on setting up an account for educators A [|video]giving instructions to students for an assignment using Diigo [|Student Research] - An Illuminate session of a long conversation of how to use Diigo for student research.

Skype
50 powerful ways to use Skype in the classroom The global Skype directory for classrooms

Facebook
A teacher's guide to using Facebook

Resources
[|Dr. Shifflet's Diigo account] A LiveBiner of PLN resources and tools

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