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Guide to creating a PLN. Comprised of 10 sections linked to the main page. Each section includes images and videos that help to illustrate the process.

Know it or not, you already have some sort of Personal Learning Network or PLN! It could be your colleagues, family, students, friends - whoever! But with the power of the web and online collaborat...

10 Great Steps to Grow Your Own PLN

Effective communication is essential for building school-family partnerships. It constitutes the foundation for all other forms of family involvement in education.

This article explains some benefits of good parent-teacher relationships and gives some examples of ways to build this type of relationship. This would be good to look at when creating my own classroom.

Kids Curate is a program where kids learn about a topic and then create a "museum display" for other grades and parents to go through

This is an app that allows students to collaborate with one another to create a drawing. The app could also be used for students to communicate in other ways than face-to-face. The best part about this app is that students do not need to be sitting next to each other to create a drawing. Students from across the room could communicate through the app without discussing face to face. Allowing students the opportunity to express creativity in methods other than writing could increase students level of comfort with a specific material.

Create great social posts/graphics, web stories and animated videos!

Shows step by step instructions on how to make a video using iMovie. Sound effects, music, stock footage, motion graphics, and stock images can be used in the iMovie.

This website has hundreds of worksheets that will guide and help students create sentences.

This is a free website for education blogs. What is cool about this is that it creates a "bubble" for your school district or university.

A great website that shows many different catapults that students could create in their classes, and also discusses the science behind catapults!

Another awesome website that gives great hints on how to create another version of the marshmallow catapult using a spoon, popsickle sticks, and rubber bands.

Lots of websites for creating quizzes.

Using and Establishing Productive PLNs

This resource is great for teaching digital communication to all students. They learn the ability to create persuasive communications using different forms of media.

Tips to creating the IDEALl Infographic.

This site is very beneficial because it allows teachers to evaluate an application they created before they implement it into their classroom.

While searching for a set of guidelines to follow when creating an education portfolio, I found several that were listed under other universities (mostly out of state). I wondered if OSU had it's own and did a quick search of our school site and found this pdf.

This provides 20 ideas on how to use piktochart in the classroom.

Another website with loads of ways to use Piktochart effectively in the classroom! (I LOVE the idea of using them in place of a written essay).

Another website with loads of ways to use Piktochart effectively in the classroom! (I LOVE the idea of using them in place of a written essay).

Here are some examples of portfolios created on LiveText that everyone can look at when getting started on their own portfolios.