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This is a video over how to build a professional learning network using twitter. This is what we have been working on in class and it's important to know how to build these connections over twitter.

English teacher and instructional technology coach Brianna Crowley offers practical advice on creating professional learning networks built on intersecting layers of relationships. I chose this article because it showed step by step what we need to do to build those connections.

This site provides information on how to create your own Professional Learning Network including how to get started, how to find other professionals, and how to use it to communicate effectively. It is great to join PLNs but it's great to learn how to create one!

I chose this resource because it gives a brief explanation of what a PLN is. Then it give three specific steps on how to build your PLN and goes into detail about each step.

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.

Create a simple catapult out of craft sticks, rubber bands, and a plastic spoon. Ideal for scouting activities or school projects. Includes free plans.

An awesome website that gives a good hint on how to build a simple marshmallow catapult using popsicle sticks, a spoon, and rubber bands.

For our project based learning assignment here is a good and simple way to build a catapult for marshmallows

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

Weebly for educators is a free website generator for teachers with many options for building your website including polls, surveys, contact information forms, and many more build ins!

Make simple popsicle stick catapults for fun play at home. Popsicle stick catapults are a great STEM activity and boredom buster on bad weather days!

Make simple popsicle stick catapults. Ideas that were used for our project based learning project.

The website, "Little Bins for Little Hands" is a website that has different STEM projects and Project Based Learning projects for teachers to use in the classroom. This website shows the project of building a catapult out of popsicle sticks and rubber bands. It provides pictures, videos, steps to build one. It then provides a like to different physic activities that can be taught in the classroom using project based learning.

Article regarding how to build a PLN. Contains a chart and 2 screen caps in order to illustrate its point. Also has a helpful list of links that have been organized into a step-by-step process for starting a PLN.

This site covers the importance of PLNs within the topic of continuing education and independent learning. It discusses the importance of staying up to date and in communication with other professionals in the same field.

This website gives a list of 10 multi-subject project ideas that revolve around project based learning. I found this website useful because it is targeted for teachers that are looking for quick ideas to build off of. The projects are also engaging and useful for students.

This website gives a list of 10 multi-subject project ideas that revolve around project based learning. I found this website useful because it is targeted for teachers that are looking for quick ideas to build off of. The projects are also engaging and useful for students.

Software that models Boolean operations. Uses key terms and graphical pieces to apply Boolean logic in visual way. Helps build mental model of search. Helps with comprehension and understanding of search.

Software that models Boolean operations. Uses key terms and graphical pieces to apply Boolean logic in visual way. Helps build mental model of search. Helps with comprehension and understanding of search.

A free site dedicated to helping teachers use technology in their classrooms and in their curriculum. 

The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education. In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well.-Mary Daniels Brown with Education World. This website builds on our learning and use of digital portfolios for ourselves to show how to use them with our students. We will learn how to do our own, and can then help our students in the future.

Check out our guide to growing your personal learning network with social media, full of more than 30 different tips, resources, and tools. This site offers tips, ideas, guides, as well as different tools and resources that we could use to build upon.

Powerpoint that details how someone can begin creating a PLN.

Separated into 2 lists of 10 items each that detail how to use PLNs and how to build them, respectively.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)