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This is paper written back in 2007 about PLNs. The author argues that PLN are the future of elearning because of the power they have to offer individualized learning and give the learner the opportunity to organize his/her own learning. That educational institutions cannot expect to simply recreate the same forms of learning used in tradition education online. rather that we must learn to adapt to the new and emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing and social software. Considering that this article was written 9 years ago, I found it to be extremely accurate and representative of PLNs today.

Some ideas for using personal learning networks for personalized learning.

Introduces Spiral, a website where you can create a class for your students and get them engaged in a wide variety of collaborative learning activities. It offers a number of tools to help you conduct quick formative assessments, design interactive presentations, annotate public videos, create video quizzes and video lesson plans, etc.

The Incubator School invites educators to contribute micro-innovation practices to their Innovation Culture Playbook-a source for experimental innovation ideas that anyone can download, modify, or transform.

"The Learning Accelerator's mission is to transform K-12 education by accelerating the implementation of high-quality blended learning in school districts across America." I haven't used this tool before, but stumbled upon it and thought of this group!

This 'Need-to-Know' blog post series features noteworthy stories that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to influence, challenge and/or transform traditional education as we know it. 1) Purdue's three-year degree: "Think 3 Years!

Blend My Learning is a blog that provides readers with information from educators that are developing and creating blended learning environments. The educators that contribute to the blog share their ideas, strategies, successes, and challenges of making the shift to a blended learning environment. The goals of the blog can be summed up by their slogan of "innovate, transform, and share".