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Edutopia's Betty Ray on how to get started using Twitter to expand your personal learning network.

Using Twitter to expand your personal learning network.

Creating professional learning networks through twitter.

Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that's especially true for educators. Whether it's coming up with fresh ideas for lesson plans and classroom activities, seeking mentorship and support from veteran educators, or cultivating resources for technology integration or for meeting state standards, teachers need one another's expertise.

I chose this resource because it talks about different plns than we learn about in the tech playground. Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that's especially true for educators. Whether it's coming up with fresh ideas for lesson plans and classroom activities, seeking mentorship and support from veteran educators, or cultivating resources for technology integration or for meeting state standards, teachers need one another's expertise.

Great way to learn how to use a PLN in education !

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators. This website creates connections between professionals and provides many available resources.

This site is actually a PLN for educators to communicate information and includes numerous types of discussion.

This is a social network that allows educators and professionals to connect with their colleagues to collaborate ideas and eventually form their own professional learning communities.

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.

Positive Use of Twitter for PLNs

Using and Establishing Productive PLNs

The Oklahoma Mesonet is a world-class network of environmental monitoring stations. The network was designed and implemented by scientists at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and at Oklahoma State University (OSU). The Oklahoma Mesonet consists of over 110 automated stations covering Oklahoma. There is at least one Mesonet station in each of Oklahoma's 77 counties.

The CLRN (California Learning Resource Network) evaluates and reviews electronic resources used in the classroom (like videos, apps, software, etc). It evaluates the resources based on individual states' content standards.

This is another excellent Pinterest board that focuses on many different PLN. One can choose form several different PLNs.

My Big Campus makes it easy to engage students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a learning community, go paperless, and lots more. My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

Here's a brief article about three additional PLN sites for teachers (one of the four is Twitter). Teaching Channel allows teachers to watch other teachers in the classroom and to share their own lessons; Digital Is is a professional development site purposed with fostering teachers' tech literacy.

The aim of the research on enterprise resource planning assignment is to determine the impact of new technologies on ERP systems and evaluate different ERP software and networks used by the companies.

Blogging website built specifically for teachers. Teachers can create newsletters for parents and blogs for students specifically!

Edublogs is a free blogging network that lets students view posts by their teachers. It gives access to email, media, and other posts for the classroom availability to expand beyond school hours.

Edublogs.org is not only a platform for teachers to create blogs that invite participation from students and parents, but is also an environment for teachers to learn from other teachers through blogging.

Great blog post on how to manage and monitor a BYOD classroom

Gives a good description and lessons on digital etiquette. Includes topics such as social networking, online safety, email and cyberbullying.

In this educational animated movie about Technology learn about online manners, courtesy, respect, the internet, and trolls.

In this educational animated movie about Technology learn about online manners, courtesy, respect, the internet, and trolls.