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How to get a PLN started on twitter as an educator

Check a number of social media sites to see if your username is available.

This website allows teachers to connect with friends, colleagues, peers, and mentors to share ideas, videos and comments. This allows teachers to gain new and creative ideas from other teachers that may have already implemented the idea into their classroom.

This shows how different networking websites like twitter or pinterest can help with curating.

This is a cool example of a high school that is all based off of project based learning

According to the textbook, this is a great source to use to "bundle" all of one lessor, or a whole course into one, easy to use site. By using My Big Campus, you are using Web-Based Learning Management Systems (LMS) to incorporate student management tools into your daily learning.

A Learning Management Systems is a wonderful tool that gives you access to class information at your fingertips! The features include: syllabi, teaching materials, quizzes, tests, survey, email, discussion forums, automatic grade book and drop box, just to name a few. Most school districts provide an LMS but if not, My Big Campus is a good resource.

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.

Educators can tap into a web-based ecology and learn 24-7.

This website discusses what exactly is technology integration and gives examples as well.

Technology integration is the use of technology resources -- computers, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, digital cameras, social media platforms and networks, software applications, the Internet, etc. -- in daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school.

A wonderful website for examples, activities to help you learn to integrate tech into the classroom!

A great resource of tools that techers can use to develop and grow PLNs

A case study of using Facebook in the classroom in such a way, that I believe is a great example of building a PLN.

I chose this resource because it briefly explains a PLN. Then it explains five reason why future teachers should start their PLN right now and goes into explicit detail.

I chose this resource because it talks about professional learning networks as something that you have to dedicate time to and put forth effort.

I chose this resource because it is a video that explains how social media, particularly Twitter, can be a great resource for teachers everywhere. It explains how having a professional Twitter can allow you to make connections with Twitter all around the world.

This is a very popular and engaging network for teachers. Eye-catching graphics, hashtags, and pictures share what it means to be a teacher working towards developing a better world. Teachers in this community enthusiastically share their experiences, concerns, and visions, and seem to want to connect to realize their full potential as educators.

Gives insight to personal learning networks and why a teacher should be using social media. "By developing professional relationships electronically, teachers can immediately post their latest articles, research, experiences, or discoveries. You, the connected teacher, are the recipient of all of these communications."

This article gives insight to why teachers should be using twitter in the classroom and the benefits this social networking website brings to your students and the content they are learning.