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Here are five ideas that will help you begin building your own personal learning network. 1. Read blogs related to your passion. Search out topics of interest at http://blogsearch.google.com and see who shares those interests. 2. Participate. If you find bloggers out there who are writing interesting and relevant posts, share your reflections and experiences by commenting on their posts. 3. Use your real name. It's a requisite step to be Googled well. Be prudent, of course, about divulging any personal information that puts you at risk, and guide students in how they can do the same. 4. Start a Facebook page. Educators need to understand the potential of social networking for themselves. 5. Explore Twitter (http://twitter.com), a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to exchange short updates of 140 characters or fewer. It may not look like much at first glance, but with Twitter, the network can be at your fingertips.

This is a must listen. A look at the future of leadership. Posting discussions and policy online for public viewing rather than locking it behind passwords or even keeping it hidden. Transparent and accountable leadership is BETTER leadership even for education.

1. Beware of "Posting Meetings" If you leave a meeting without action steps, then question the value of the meeting (especially if it is recurring). A meeting to "share updates" should actually be an e-mail.

Schools struggle to balance student educational needs with privacy and freedom of speech rights in the digital age This puts an interesting 'spin' on acceptable use and it made me wonder is Arlington wasn't already thinking about this when they bought all these iPads!